Example sentences of "[verb] the [num ord] couple [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean the first couple of days , we spent a lot of time just trying to cool people down and and stop them panicking and er and stop them going over the top . |
| 2 | Yeah but like think about it , first , I mean the first couple of tapes of people like saying oh yeah , so then we had sex , and then we gave him a blow job ! |
| 3 | I 've er I 've only just I 've only been coughing the last couple of days , but |
| 4 | We tried the next couple of villages also before the truth dawned . |
| 5 | He is beginning to move on from the subjects which have dominated the last couple of years , feeling that he has gleaned all the experience he can from them . |
| 6 | cos if you 've missed the first couple of weeks ' worth or so erm |
| 7 | Clearly er , it 's er , again in , in paragraph four , under future budget of er , the services is going to be critical , if you 've seen the last couple of years that are defined in the pay , and that 's going to continue . |
| 8 | ‘ The manager has watched the last couple of games , which has gone in my favour with me doing well . |
| 9 | ‘ The manager has watched the last couple of games , which has gone in my favour with me doing well . |
| 10 | You 'll spend the first couple of hours with ‘ Power Missy ’ trying to work out whether it 's a tease or a threat and then , just when you decide you really ca n't decide whether they 're all Polly Harvey bolshie or Sundays pliant , it may dawn on you that ‘ PM ’ is , in fact , f—ing scary , like playing S&M games with a dangerous schizophrenic . |
| 11 | Monaco despatched a scout to trail him at Bournemouth the following week , and they will use the next couple of days to decide whether to gamble on bringing Lambert to Europe 's gambling capital . |
| 12 | She 'd caught two buses across Johannesburg and then walked the last couple of miles to come and find me . ’ |
| 13 | We birdied the first couple of holes and we were on top of the world . |
| 14 | Everyone , myself included , held their breath as the ball swung the last couple of feet towards the cup and disappeared . |
| 15 | A pewter tankard at his elbow , Wexford spent the next couple of hours studying Hatton 's log book and Mrs Hatton 's engagement diary . |
| 16 | She spent the next couple of hours staring into the darkness . |
| 17 | She had phoned in sick straight after she 'd got home that dreadful morning and spent the next couple of days trying to come to terms with what had happened , but there was no way she could ever accept what Luke had done , how he had used her in that unscrupulous way . |
| 18 | I have spent the last couple of weeks visiting garages with my husband attempting to exchange our shared vehicle . |
| 19 | The former holder of the world land speed rapping record ( 'til Curve 's mate JC001 half-inched it ) Freddy 's spent the last couple of years in the US working on his next LP . |
| 20 | And I would ask you to have regard to that erm when you look at the technical criteria which we 've spent the last couple of hours looking at . |
| 21 | ‘ No , I 've been freelancing the last couple of years . ’ |
| 22 | Got home in time to watch the last couple of overs on the television , but then discovered that the highlights were not on TV until 1am . |
| 23 | All that now remained was to get the next couple of weeks over — have the party , get Karl away , see Erika settled , get the business of the accident cleared up and then , although he did not normally think in melodramatic terms — then the future ! |
| 24 | It was , it was very nice except that Fred had a piece and left the last couple of slices in the tin on the side and the dog took a shine to it so it was in a tin and then in the dog . |
| 25 | David Meldrum , general manager , financial services , said the last couple of years had been very difficult for everyone in the industry . |
| 26 | She tried to see herself through this man 's eyes , to relive the last couple of hours from his point of view . |
| 27 | But it , yeah , I mean I quite take all of these qualifications but if sh if you take the first couple of paragraphs does n't it seem to be a call to , to radical land reform ? |
| 28 | And er , so she said she , she wants to take the last couple of days away |
| 29 | The idea being that if he spends the next couple of weeks explaining to all the other people there why he ca n't keep his hands off women he wo n't want to be unfaithful any more and his wife will forgive him . |
| 30 | If you can just work spend the next couple of minutes working through that . |