Example sentences of "had a couple [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Harry 's cliffs had a couple of their lines manicured . |
| 2 | Taff had a couple of mouthfuls of his cider and , placing the empty mug on the floor of the trench , he remarked , ‘ At least one thing , Piper . |
| 3 | I parked the jeep under a tree and then , looking at my watch , I decided that as I had a couple of hours to spare I would take a walk across to the other bridge where I had noticed a café on our first day into Normandy . |
| 4 | We had a couple of usherettes raped . |
| 5 | ‘ Once he had a couple of chaps with him . |
| 6 | ‘ Two weeks ago we had a couple of so-called businessmen in the club , with their minder and the Roller parked down below . |
| 7 | David had a couple of records out at the time and he sang all his songs in the show that we did . |
| 8 | When we returned to New York after the tour , David and DeFries had a couple of meetings and they were rather funny , too , because I would ask each of them what happened . |
| 9 | He 'd just remembered he had a couple of toffees in his oilskin coat pocket . |
| 10 | He also had a couple of mild bouts of colic where we both ended up covered in liquid paraffin . |
| 11 | It had a couple of runs . |
| 12 | Bennett himself had a couple of chances late in the half , but the visitors also threatened as Alton 's defenders had to cope with the bright sun in their eyes . |
| 13 | Do n't you wish you had a couple of million quid ? |
| 14 | At last a very rare event occurred : I had a couple of days off , and the weather was set fair for flying . |
| 15 | I 'd swap my vest and plasters for a Marks and Spencer circle-stitched bra , a rigid , pointed contraption that made me look as if I had a couple of ice-cream cones up my jumper : I could never fill them to the end ( not even on a good day ) and the last waltz would result in dents in the ends . |
| 16 | The 21-year-old American , signed from Dallas Sidekicks , has played just one practice match and had a couple of training sessions with Forest . |
| 17 | ‘ I only had a couple of hours with him , but it made a tremendous difference . |
| 18 | Certainly it appears so to Mario who 's given to saying things such as ‘ Yeah , I had a couple of years back then with Ferrari … |
| 19 | ‘ Tom always had a couple of lurcher dogs tagging along at his heels when he was a kid . |
| 20 | I only had a couple of hours sleep last night . ’ |
| 21 | Chapman had a couple of chances but he could n't convert either . |
| 22 | We had a couple of bottles of champagne to greet the travellers , and Gabby and her husband came in to help us with them and we all toasted Nigel 's ‘ recovery ’ . |
| 23 | Purfleet had a couple of players booked and one sent off in quick succession but their reshuffled ten men held firm . |
| 24 | I had a couple of books which I had slipped into my light case — Somerset Maugham 's novel The Moon and Sixpence , which I was looking forward to reading again because it was , of course , based on the life of the painter Gauguin , who 'd lived here in the South Seas ; and a collection of Guy de Maupassant stories , in English . |
| 25 | He had a couple of guns . |
| 26 | Steve Reid and I had a couple of free days and were eager to climb somewhere different . |
| 27 | She had a couple of books published , Self Portrait , and Making Faces . |
| 28 | We had a couple of suspicious characters but their alibis are watertight . |
| 29 | The same lithe figure , except that Tessa had a couple of inches advantage in height and a slightly fuller body . |
| 30 | From what Wayne had been able to see of her left eye , it had looked as if it had a couple of drops of blood in it . |