Example sentences of "and [vb past] a couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | We continued to jam together , wrote some music and made a couple of records . ’ |
| 2 | Other night we had bacon and egg and I did n't fancy it very much so I just had two slices of bacon and one egg and made a couple of sandwiches out of it . |
| 3 | The self-contained flat was eventually let to Raymond Ray , a dancer who also had a talent for making costumes and produced a couple of skirts for Elinor Moynihan . |
| 4 | They were built with me in mind and I liked them and got a couple from Fender . |
| 5 | Our experience of MCI Communications Corp 's MCI Mail service makes us feel that it has a quite impressively user friendly interface , whereas we find it difficult to believe that British Telecommunications Plc 's Dialcom — or good ol' Telecom Gold — is really quite as user-hostile as it appears , so having hit a snag in MCI and keyed ‘ help ’ at the prompt , and got a couple of screens of useful information ending with two phone numbers and a further option to key at the prompt , we wondered what Gold came up with if you keyed ‘ help ’ — here is the answer — Top-level directory not found or inaccessible . |
| 6 | She tried to work herself , and got a couple of nights barmaiding , but he did n't like that , and he did n't like one of the children going to nursery . |
| 7 | I slipped back into the water and swam a couple of strokes to the curtain . |
| 8 | With an irritability caused as much by her slimming diet as by the lack of a box , she almost stamped down the stairs into the basement , which was comfortingly warm , and found a couple of cardboard boxes . |
| 9 | They landed the King Air at Sir William Robert 's strip there and found a couple of former Irish Air Corps two-seaters and one former Belgian Air Force Mk XIV all in a million bits . |
| 10 | They gave me 26 quid this week but I rummaged through the shed and found a couple of things to stick in as prizes . |
| 11 | The studio thinks Vic 's a genius and gave him as much as they could until the insurance boys dug their heels in over big-name leads falling out of a canoe and then they went down the list and found a couple of guys the industry could afford to lose . |
| 12 | To Tony was telling me that er he was asked that Walsall needed the money so he was asked to be transferred to Port Vale , which he did but er I think he was past his best and he , he 'd came down back here and played a couple of times with Port Vale , and er but erm like I say he was past his best . |
| 13 | On the minus side , she 'd blown a lot of money and received a couple of scares . |
| 14 | Gambo ladled another heap of pepper into the cauldron and added a couple of chillies and more garlic for good measure . |
| 15 | Mr Braithwaite drained off his lime squash and added a couple of jiggers of rum to his empty glass . |
| 16 | Cadfael removed a simmering pot from the grid on the side of his brazier , set it aside on the earth floor to cool , and added a couple of turfs to damp down the glow , before straightening his back with some caution , and sitting down beside his friend . |
| 17 | The bed itself she redraped in its midnight cover , and added a couple of red-and-blue cushions . |
| 18 | Binyon took a hunting-flask from his jacket pocket and poured a couple of inches into a styrofoam cup . |
| 19 | Another Secte Rouge blocked Mortimer 's path , however , and no one else was in position to attack Carrefour , so Ace slammed a magazine into her Browning and fired a couple of shots . |
| 20 | to make sure they 're alright then they switched the telly on and fetched a couple of , the adult programme . |
| 21 | I suspect he would have been rewarded by now had a private conversation of his on a car telephone not been picked up and leaked a couple of years ago . |
| 22 | They commemorate her father and mother , ‘ such a holy and sanctified a couple ’ ; and describe , in great detail , her relationships with her siblings , her husband , and her children . |
| 23 | Carter got his briefcase and extracted a couple of sheets stapled together . |
| 24 | The architect of the college built the hotel , a bar and stuck a couple of classrooms on the end . |
| 25 | In 1977 , I took my first ever sabbatical , and spent a couple of months at the Australian National University in Canberra . |
| 26 | He even drove down to Thanet and spent a couple of days driving round the maze of lanes , orchards and villages that lay south of the Stour inland from Sandwich . |
| 27 | its , it 's , it 's the same Saturdays and Sundays , I ca n't get him out of the house and yet soon as we get there we have friends and family and they say , keep saying come on , come up and see us , I went up in the mini on me own one day and spent a couple of days with her , but , it , it ai n't the same when you go on your own , I dare n't go too far in my mini because it 's , it 's erm , it 's not a car that you can be hundred per cent sure of it , I mean as soon as it rains it stops anyway , we went out in it today and there 's all water in the front of the , in the front , but |
| 28 | He had a big room on the second floor of the house at Strathspeld ; we 'd played here as kids , making models , fighting wars with toy soldiers and the train set and Airfix tanks and forts made from Lego ; we 'd conducted experiments with our chemistry sets , raced our Scalextric cars , flown gliders out the window down to the lawn and shot at targets in the gardens with our air rifles and killed a couple of birds and smoked a few packets of illicit fags from the same window . |
| 29 | He stopped in the middle of the swing bridge over the canal and watched a couple of local boys fishing from the bank . |
| 30 | I loosened my shirt collar and watched a couple of generals being saluted by their chauffeurs . |