Example sentences of "been [vb pp] a couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martin needed a bit of time to settle down and should have been given a couple of throws in his usual position in the middle before going to the front and staying there . |
| 2 | there was a I mean I 've also been given a couple of ways to remember it but |
| 3 | The reasons that we need guidelines now is we had n't time to study them at the time and up to the present moment , as far as I 'm aware there 's one section that 's just been formed a couple of months ago . |
| 4 | Of medium height , he was known as a dresser and had been tipped a couple of times for those best-dressed men lists . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd been offered a couple of things in the league , and I could have gone to Kuwait or South Africa . |
| 6 | you know , if they want the first day , then there gon na have to do another lot so what 's the point of sort of yourself out with fucking , I was n't really sure at the time that I wanted to go to so , you know , I , I said no I needed this job , but probably a bad I 've been offered a couple of month one 's as well , one month and two month 's , but I mean the trouble is |
| 7 | The police , most of whom I knew , because of the great help they had given us when we had been burgled a couple of years earlier , said no , they did n't have the key , and in any case it was the council who must be approached . |
| 8 | ‘ Your uncle Maurice has been gone a couple of hours ? ’ |
| 9 | IF THE inflation figures had been published a couple of days earlier , the Labour party would no doubt have made the most of a fall which was far short of expectations . |