Example sentences of "a couple [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I estimate that $20 plus a couple for postage would be about £15 . |
| 2 | Well , bought a couple for Adam , his |
| 3 | It might be helpful for you to pray together as a couple for God 's direction . |
| 4 | I remember a couple of scenes when David would just go on and on asking me what I was doing with Michael , ’ she says . |
| 5 | But I have a couple of scenes in which a black man has a gun in his hand , and if a black man wields a gun , automatically people wan na start arresting folks . |
| 6 | It is hard to know exactly what the company were aiming at or were attempting to say , but after a couple of scenes the audience found itself tussling with one question only . |
| 7 | The Anchor brewery had been built in 1757 by a couple of brewers from Bethnal Green called Wastfield and Moss , at a time when the district was so quiet and un-built-up you could still see ships passing on the Thames from the brewery windows . |
| 8 | ‘ Then , if we 're forward enough , Jinny and Oz can go off for the day with a couple of baskets . |
| 9 | About two-thirds of the sacks of refuse had gone , and the pit she had seen was as if it had never been , under a litter of dead leaves where a couple of blackbirds foraged . |
| 10 | We had a couple of usherettes raped . |
| 11 | I only got into a couple of fights . |
| 12 | Everybody makes a big deal out of it now , because I 've done a couple of albums and you do all these guest sessions and stuff and it 's like ‘ Wow , he plays bass . |
| 13 | This line-up recorded a couple of albums and toured successfully in many countries . |
| 14 | For , now she had telephoned England , it had been brought home to her that she had a couple of choices to worry about . |
| 15 | There 's a couple of choices . |
| 16 | And what they do , is they give them a couple of choices of bo , you know , hip joints to go for and the guy decides , the surgeon decides , does his job and then the kit goes back to the manufacturer again and then when the , another hospital orders it they make up a , another kit . |
| 17 | He felt in his purse and threw down a couple of copper coins . |
| 18 | There are occasions when you get an odd fish that weighs a couple of pounds more or less than the average on that day , but to expect this to happen is foolhardy . |
| 19 | Even with the other symptoms , the loss of a couple of pounds in a week seemed fine . |
| 20 | Your marriage certificate is a couple of pounds extra . |
| 21 | The thought makes me scared , but I still feel relief when the scales show a couple of pounds less . |
| 22 | Morag unpacked her ‘ message ’ , which was a large cauliflower from someone 's garden , and a couple of pounds of tomatoes which had obviously , from the scent , been freshly picked , then , after we had admired them , left us . |
| 23 | Commonly not exceeding a couple of pounds , the church stock reached an exceptional £7. 6s. at Waddesdon , Bucks. , though as often as not it was nil , or else no figure was given , some certificates consistently omitting it . |
| 24 | And I think that 's what a lot of problem with condemned by the G P is is they 're not able to articulate the unhappiness that 's coming from the eating disorder , so they 're told to go away and put on a couple of pounds and because they have n't expressed that feeling the G P ca n't or is n't thinking enough to try and and poke into it a little bit more . |
| 25 | A third of the people who were successful in stopping , did n't gain weight or gained less than a couple of pounds . |
| 26 | You 'll need two plastic buckets , a couple of pounds of ‘ pea shingle ’ from the local builders ' merchant and a few drops of rosemary oil available from health stores or chemists . |
| 27 | That had n't cost a couple of pounds — it can cost a small fortune . |
| 28 | In my first week , I lost nearly a stone but since then I 've only lost a couple of pounds a week . |
| 29 | The contents were predictable : a leather key-fold , a couple of pounds in coin , and a handkerchief . |
| 30 | I 'm Catherine Gray , I have nothing worth taking , there 's only a couple of pounds in my purse if that 's what you 're after . |