Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] a couple [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fucking have a little drink here or fuck a couple of bob every five minutes . |
| 2 | Criminal plaints were sometimes filed against the thieves in order to reduce the amount of ransom , or to get a couple of rupees compensation for an eaten animal . |
| 3 | Thus , a hedge containing six species might be nearly 700 years old , give or take a couple of hundred ! |
| 4 | So , give or take a couple of centuries and a few hundred light years , I 'm home . |
| 5 | That £780 million is part of the 85 per cent. , give or take a couple of percentage points , that central taxation and the unified business rate provide in financial support to our local authorities . |
| 6 | There was nothing he enjoyed more than seeing a couple of his subordinates at each other 's throats . |
| 7 | He 's wearing a pair of well-presses , dark pinstripe slacks and a white , V-necked T-shirt that has a couple of nickel-sized holes in it , one of which reveals whorls of thin white hair on the left side of his chest . |
| 8 | Developer conferences these days seem to harbour a deep-seated resentment of Microsoft and , unfortunately , Allchin is not the most charismatic senior executive that Microsoft could have fielded — frankly he killed himself by an overlong demo ( and let us not forget that Gates himself is probably the only competitor to Jobs ’ title of demo king ) that crashed a couple of times . |
| 9 | For example , if you feel like cheese on toast for lunch , rather than having a couple of slices of toast piled with cheese , have two slices of toast , one with just a moderate layer of cheese on top , and one with baked beans . |
| 10 | Instead there is a vile soda , so sweet that drinking a couple of glasses is probably no worse for your teeth than getting hit in the mouth with a bottle of the stuff . |
| 11 | There are occasions when you get an odd fish that weighs a couple of pounds more or less than the average on that day , but to expect this to happen is foolhardy . |
| 12 | So she forbore to do so altogether , even to Cedric , and as she lay in her bed that day , her arm now beginning to give her some considerable pain , she would willingly ( she knew ) have cracked two of her ribs rather than chipped a couple of her teeth . |
| 13 | I think I 'll have one more small whisky to keep the blood from cooling , and then slip back to Deptford and crack a couple of heads . |
| 14 | I go up and sit a couple of stairs below my son . |
| 15 | They went down to the Crown and Trumpet a couple of hours ago … ’ |
| 16 | I 'll creep down later and borrow a couple of items from Auntie 's handbag and then I 'll be set . |
| 17 | Ellwood stayed still for a while , letting the priest set up his tackle and make a couple of casts , then he slithered down to the path . |
| 18 | And make a couple of different fillings up |
| 19 | We continued to jam together , wrote some music and made a couple of records . ’ |
| 20 | Other night we had bacon and egg and I did n't fancy it very much so I just had two slices of bacon and one egg and made a couple of sandwiches out of it . |
| 21 | Centralization of royal authority went further in Wales , which in 1536 was put under English law ( and language ) and given a couple of dozen seats in the House of Commons . |
| 22 | The self-contained flat was eventually let to Raymond Ray , a dancer who also had a talent for making costumes and produced a couple of skirts for Elinor Moynihan . |
| 23 | Our experience of MCI Communications Corp 's MCI Mail service makes us feel that it has a quite impressively user friendly interface , whereas we find it difficult to believe that British Telecommunications Plc 's Dialcom — or good ol' Telecom Gold — is really quite as user-hostile as it appears , so having hit a snag in MCI and keyed ‘ help ’ at the prompt , and got a couple of screens of useful information ending with two phone numbers and a further option to key at the prompt , we wondered what Gold came up with if you keyed ‘ help ’ — here is the answer — Top-level directory not found or inaccessible . |
| 24 | She tried to work herself , and got a couple of nights barmaiding , but he did n't like that , and he did n't like one of the children going to nursery . |
| 25 | They were built with me in mind and I liked them and got a couple from Fender . |
| 26 | And send a couple of your boys up here to keep a lookout . |
| 27 | It has been very stretched lengthways on the machine and needs a couple of hours to recover . |
| 28 | I slipped back into the water and swam a couple of strokes to the curtain . |
| 29 | This month Jerzy Gawor 's A to Z reaches G , and covers a couple of nasty parasites and Gas Bubble Disease . |
| 30 | With an irritability caused as much by her slimming diet as by the lack of a box , she almost stamped down the stairs into the basement , which was comfortingly warm , and found a couple of cardboard boxes . |