Example sentences of "[verb] have a couple of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They used to do some outrageous things together when they 'd had a couple of beers . |
| 2 | ‘ We 'd had a couple of years to put the break-up into perspective and I know , personally , I was missing the lads and the buzz I used to get from songs like ‘ Suspect Devices ’ and ‘ Straw Dogs ’ . |
| 3 | Apparently there 'd been this girl , Spanish or Portuguese I think , and Ollie had been giving her private lessons at his flat , and he thought she fancied him , and he 'd had a couple of Special Brews at the time and thought she was just shy , and then he tried kissing her , and it 's the old , old , sordid story , is n't it ? |
| 4 | He 'd had a couple of sessions with his union rep and had been told not to worry , it was just a way of filling some quota ; if anything , his job was probably more secure now than it had been before . |
| 5 | I 'd had a couple of drinks , lapped up some fast food , and jumped into a cab . |
| 6 | She 'd had a couple of little fumbling and innocuous affairs , nothing serious , and she never dared breathe a word to Georg . |
| 7 | and it was later on when she 'd had a couple of tomatoes . |
| 8 | A girl who wore her long dark hair loose , who practically lived in jeans and sweatshirts , and who always seemed to have a couple of paint stains on her somewhere because she was trying to scrape a living by producing exquisitely detailed illustrations for books . |
| 9 | See I 've had a couple of colds the past few months and then you think , well that 's me , I 'm getting better . |
| 10 | If we ca n't e e I 've had a couple of months of stock on the shelf for 'em . |
| 11 | you 'll have to have a couple of washers |
| 12 | But the community did have a couple of heroes in the military sense when the Second World War came , both members of a family which plays a leading role in the modern legends of Baldersdale — the Fawcetts of West Birk Hatt |
| 13 | We did have a couple of suicides , but I soon put a stop to that . |
| 14 | Yeah , but married couple there did have a couple of people there that got married while they were in the T A but they were n't allowed , they never allowed to sort of buddy , buddy together I tell you why I got put with that woman . |
| 15 | Chairman I do have a couple of questions , I do have a couple of questions if I may . |
| 16 | Chairman I do have a couple of questions , I do have a couple of questions if I may . |
| 17 | Carolyn had had a couple of goes at it and made it into — well , more of a privet dodo than a hen . |
| 18 | I 've had a couple of nice chats with the people at GMTV , but I told them I was n't in a hurry to decide what I would do next and frankly I do n't envy the people who are going straight on to another show . ’ |
| 19 | I 've had a couple of stormy sessions with the old rascal trying to keep him on the beam . ’ |
| 20 | Well initially we we 're we 're going to we 're going to go nationally but very quickly we 're gon na see where erm our strengths and weaknesses are erm and we know already where the erm the large market is and once we 've had a couple of T V spots to make it known nationally erm in the end of course we 're gon na have to erm probably concentrate on those areas which erm er which 'll give us the best return . |
| 21 | Erm we 've had a couple of flat fires . |
| 22 | We 've had a couple of bomb threats lately and it 's been installed to warn staff to clear the building . |
| 23 | Although she no longer performs , except as a lecturer ( she is professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in North Carolina ) , she still likes to sing , ‘ When I 've had a couple of glasses ! ’ |
| 24 | I 've had a couple of letters asking me whether I ever managed to give up smoking as I promised a few months ago . |
| 25 | I can imagine some unpleasant things happening with the sling , too ; the sling-bombs have to be on a pretty short fuse if they 're to detonate soon enough after they land not to be throw-backable , and I 've had a couple of close calls already when they 've gone off just after they left the sling . |
| 26 | Erm I I 've had a couple of difficulties with those . |
| 27 | ‘ I take it we 've had a couple of admissions ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ And I 've had a couple of glasses of Scotch to celebrate finishing a course of antibiotics for a chest infection , ’ he finished wearily . |
| 29 | are struggling , we 've had a couple of |
| 30 | She said they 've had they 've had a couple of days out here trekking , trying to catch people ! |