Example sentences of "and after [art] couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are invited to a party and after a couple of drinks you decide a few crisps or nuts will not hurt . |
| 2 | I 've been a sportsman all my life and after a couple of years away from the game on a daily basis , I 'm happy to be coming back . |
| 3 | Eventually he put his shoulder to it , and after a couple of bruising attacks the door fell in — and he with it . |
| 4 | Still , I 'm glad I stole Friday and Saturday to see the boys , and after a couple of hours ' sleep , I awoke refreshed and looking forward to the arrival of David Grindrod for lunch . |
| 5 | Plants will normally come to bloom earlier in a greenhouse than outside , but in either case the most propitious time for the operation is during a spell , and after a couple of days , of bright sunny weather . |
| 6 | Take this turn and after a couple of miles the road narrows incredibly through the hedges and stone houses of the village . |
| 7 | Many diets fail because they do not provide the variety of foods that the body craves and after a couple of enthusiastic days the willpower begins to weaken . |
| 8 | They are extremely active little animals and after a couple of weeks , as soon as their fur is grown and their eyes are open , they start to supplement their mother 's milk with insects and other invertebrates that they find for themselves . |
| 9 | I phoned the Packard Bell hotline and after a couple of days ' wait they were very helpful . |
| 10 | Kell , his back exposed to many knives , was bizarrely blamed by Churchill for the ‘ skill and daring ’ of the submarine that destroyed the Royal Oak , and after a couple more botched jobs was summarily dismissed . |
| 11 | The audience was n't going to let Del Amitri get away and after a couple of minutes to catch their breath back , Justin and company returned to give us some more . |
| 12 | she said well it happened to me , it 's the chemicals on the skin of the fruit and the tomatoes , that 's what brought your spots on and after a couple of days or whatever they went away . |