Example sentences of "i [vb past] a couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked a couple of questions he would n't answer , then he said , ‘ I 'll have to go . ’ |
| 2 | I applied a couple of generous handfuls and styled away until my quiff was cast in bronze . |
| 3 | Through reading and experimentation , I made a couple of simple sweaters and decided that this form of knitting was ‘ great ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't know if it 's of any help but — er — I made a couple of notes at the time . |
| 5 | I made a couple of moderately long speeches on the Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill , but we are not discussing existing procedure . |
| 6 | I made a couple of hundred pound out of them Sundays in any case ! |
| 7 | I checked a couple of precedents in my files . |
| 8 | I got a couple of pints on my way home . ’ |
| 9 | Well maybe if I got a couple of people to fill in |
| 10 | I got a couple of phone calls from somebody but er |
| 11 | I got a couple of books and a tape . |
| 12 | And Joseph I got a couple of toys for as well . |
| 13 | cos at the weekend I did really well cos I got a couple done at youth club and a couple done at work I thought , yeah , I was doing really well but Monday I forgot to bring the spare batteries which was a bit divvy of me and I was gon na record it all during sewing Tuesday I went to placement |
| 14 | Well I got a couple and I thought well I 'll wait till I go out to Tregole now , they 're probably cheaper there than anywhere |
| 15 | Having tasted one or three of the strawberry , I tried a couple , or maybe half a dozen , of the raspberry . |
| 16 | Erm , I saw a few white hats but erm I tried a couple on , I thought one would have suited me , but it did n't . |
| 17 | ‘ Only I found a couple of freshly killed rabbits and a nice pair of boots under a bush on the bank early this morning . |
| 18 | Then a British colleague at the Zoological station for this and next academic year lent me another four , and I found a couple on our shelves that I had not read before , so was well away . |
| 19 | Well I found a couple of possible useful quotes of the highway code . |
| 20 | adult life was spent in South Africa , and erm I found a couple of years ago two books written by a remarkable while English-speaking South African called Donald Woods , who was a newspaper editor , who befriended and then championed a remarkable young black South African called Steve Beeko , who was killed in police detention . |
| 21 | Although it took a while and I crashed a couple of times , once I even knocked a dam down with a kite . |
| 22 | I mentioned a couple of things at the start that , er yes . |
| 23 | As i mentioned a couple of Sundays ago , the spirit is creatively active at the conception of Jesus . |
| 24 | As I told a couple of surveyors I met at the ground earlier today , ‘ Building on here would be like trying to wallpaper a Slumberland mattress . ’ |
| 25 | There were risks involved because the acid sometimes leaked and I ruined a couple of dresses that way . |
| 26 | I meowed a couple of times and steeled myself as she came over . |
| 27 | I must have knocked it or something and I 'd a couple of shots left and I ought to have shot the swine but I could n't , not while he was sitting there killing himself laughing . |
| 28 | I swapped a couple of impersonations with the barman . |
| 29 | I played a couple of tracks to Hugh and he liked them very much and wanted to hear some more , so I took some more up to him . |
| 30 | I played a couple of hundred sons-of-bitches on TV and was making some good money from it so I could afford to buy as much booze as I wanted . |