Example sentences of "it a couple " in BNC.

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1 I went with Kathleen to see it a couple of days later .
2 Wiping his hands on a towel , he opened it up , stretched it a couple of times , and then slipped it in the pocket of his dirty apron .
3 But I did n't think they would put the band back together ; David had mentioned it a couple of times but I had n't really taken him that seriously .
4 But I did get away with it a couple of times on this record .
5 She wore it a couple of times , then her husband changed allegiance and went to another make of vintage car !
6 I am so excited , I have n't slept since I was told about it a couple of days ago . ’
7 Behind that was a billiard table , and near it a couple of bridge tables .
8 In it a couple in electric suits were arcing and fizzing to the hefty thump of a jumpbox .
9 I gave it a couple of minutes , then made for the broch and the steps up to the landing where the girls had gone yesterday .
10 Also , give it a couple of years and the market will see just three big players on the market — Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG , IBM and Unisys .
11 ‘ Well , I 've only done it a couple of times as you know .
12 She kicked out again , this time cracking it a couple of feet from the juncture with the adjacent wall .
13 The other thing is I mean , erm , the , the Trone did it a couple of years ago , they have n't done it this year they
14 I think about it a couple of hundred times a day and kick myself for not staying right there .
15 ‘ You told me you learnt about it a couple of weeks before Nicola was murdered . ’
16 I 'm glad I did n't buy a sling because I only used it a couple of times .
17 He went to look for it , remembering that he had used it a couple of times since October , trying to take the plugs out of the estate car .
18 Try using it a couple of times . ’
19 Once you 've read it a couple of times and confirmed in your own mind exactly how you want the system to operate , it 's surprisingly easy to get it up and running , and once you have , you 've got a quite capable mini-network to play with .
20 For instance , I recall one evening he came to me and took out a matchbox and he gave it a couple of shakes ; I thought there were matches inside , hut he opened the box and inside were some very evil-looking pills , about the size of , or a little larger , than a Beecham 's pill .
21 Give it a couple of days and you 'll feel you 've been here forever . ’
22 He jerked it a couple of times , and somewhere inside the cavernous depths a bell jangled loudly .
23 Yes , you mentioned it a couple of times , put there was no-one really keeping a watch on the clock .
24 ‘ The racecourse vet wanted to put him down and we thought about it a couple of times .
25 I 've wore it a couple of times for .
26 has been up there nattering , it 's been noticed , so Norren come up to me today and she said oh er you do n't have to do upstairs she said , give it a couple of weeks she said and you wo n't have to do it any more
27 We had it a couple of weeks ago by accident .
28 Cos I 've watch it , recor record it a couple of times , but I did n't realize they each had different days .
29 When you take anything off the road left it a couple of days without running it , even on a Sunday , it 'd be a harder to get it back going again on Monday .
30 Oh I 've seen it a couple of times , yeah .
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