Example sentences of "a couple [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some browsing books for the enthusiast have arrived on the market , and a couple for the fanatic . |
| 2 | But even if one were to follow a couple for a whole day on repeated occasions , would this do justice to the full range , texture and history of the changing day-to-day relations between mother and child ? |
| 3 | The similarities that appear on your lists may be an indication that you are well equipped as a couple for a particular occupation or ministry . |
| 4 | It might be helpful for you to pray together as a couple for God 's direction . |
| 5 | I 'll take I 'll take a couple for the moment . |
| 6 | I estimate that $20 plus a couple for postage would be about £15 . |
| 7 | So we could get a couple for here |
| 8 | Yeah , a couple for each and a , and a , and a chocolate biscuit or something and a drink of milk . |
| 9 | Well , bought a couple for Adam , his |
| 10 | But er but when Marguerite says she 's thinking of having a couple for her living room that ca n't be pictures of somebody else 's room she 's putting up , he must be taking snaps . |
| 11 | He dropped the logs off in the kitchen , adding a couple to the stove , and put the kettle on . |
| 12 | How then do we decide which class to assign a couple to where he is a builder and she is a secretary ( not that uncommon a scenario ) ? |
| 13 | For a couple to be arguing so early in their relationship did not bode well for the future . |
| 14 | Oh I can give a couple to the goats as well |
| 15 | According to the narrator , Patrick is ‘ so far from being anti-semitic that a couple of his best friends really were Jews ’ ( but who can these two best friends be — can Ormerod , unmentioned in the later novel , be one ? ) . |
| 16 | The teachers gave me a rough time for a couple of years because my student and acting image did n't fit . |
| 17 | The slogan of blinkered professors and dull art critics , who , as always , are a couple of hundred years out of date . |
| 18 | After a couple of weeks in a cool place the beer should have cleared and be ready for drinking . |
| 19 | Should n't take more than a couple of weeks at most … |
| 20 | They announced it just a couple of weeks ago . |
| 21 | A COUPLE OF CHARLIES and PRESS GANG ) . |
| 22 | I was given a couple of interviews straight off which , though unsuccessful , were useful practice and I felt confident that something would soon turn up . |
| 23 | ‘ Look , I 've been bounced around like a rubber ball between you people for a couple of months now . |
| 24 | The conversation continued for a couple of hours . |
| 25 | Sarah 's house was at the other end of it and I could see a couple of cars parked outside what I was sure was their home . |
| 26 | ‘ Well I 've got a couple of people off so we 're down this morning . |
| 27 | Because I 've had to spend a couple of nights in a porchway ? ’ |
| 28 | Unless I went back to Harwich , I was going to be flat broke in a couple of days and just at that moment the last thing I wanted to do was to go back to Harwich . |
| 29 | ‘ No , I was brought up in Berkhamsted and I spent a couple of years living in Oxfordshire not so long ago , so I 'm not completely inflexible about this . |
| 30 | A couple of papers were duly bought and after that we parted company . |