Example sentences of "[adj] and a couple [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accused and a couple of friends staged a false robbery to get the money from the victim . |
| 2 | to stop the wetness seeping through and that the gel , what they do is they shave rabbits , and rub it into their skin , the rashes and that and a couple of rabbits have died from it when they first started testing the stuff |
| 3 | And it 's a family that 's well known as a bit you know Geordies and that and a couple of rottweilers . |
| 4 | Yet , apart from these and a couple of stagings of The Tempest , choreographers have tended to present Shakespeare only in one act form , at best condensing the great poetic dramas into intense and intimate character studies at worst , turning them into a slide show of cliched vignettes . |
| 5 | Just and all these and a couple of a key sixes their playing . |
| 6 | I am sitting with Deee-Lite and a couple of their American press agents in a modest Manhattan restaurant called The Savoy , and I am already feeling unqualified for inclusion in this company . |
| 7 | Now that two of you are married and a couple of you are starting families , does the band work as a lads ' escape ? |
| 8 | The idea is , if one of those and a couple of the younger guys , like we did at N E C |
| 9 | Erm recognized those and a couple of other things . |
| 10 | He joined Hampshire in 1970 and a couple of years later the selectors were enquiring after him , but he chose to await his chance with West Indies . |
| 11 | M I five operates it in Northern Ireland and has got this whole series you may well have seen the television programme recently about these people who work undercover and who work for the intelligence and they they work themselves into the I R A and become members and then they feed the information back to British it 's been very successful and a couple of insiders is risky and we eventually when they are discovered who these people are , they have to be given new identities , plastic surgery and the works . |
| 12 | Coronation Street , half past seven till eight , Rumpole from nine to ten so you can come out between eight and nine and ten and ele le le le eight and nine and ten and eleven , so you got time for couple between eight and nine and a couple between ten and eleven , how 's that ? |
| 13 | It catches several eel-pout and a couple of butterfish which it eats on the surface , sometimes holding the fish between its forepaws in order to control their writhing . |