Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] for a couple [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a plan of gaining experience for a couple of years then broadening his horizons by moving overseas , Roy came to Craigforth for an interview . |
| 2 | The following Saturday morning I asked Granpa for a couple of hours off . |
| 3 | Got time for a couple of hours , then a quick pint at the local , while Juliet gets the lunch . |
| 4 | Truth to tell , the arrangement did n't look particularly promising : the Bowl resembled something for kitchen use , plain fired ceramic , large enough to whip eggs for a couple of soufflés . |
| 5 | They exchanged banalities for a couple of minutes . |
| 6 | But I spent a few bob buying drinks for a couple of old OSS types who 'd turned up in their London station and they took pity on me and let drop the codename : Winter Garden . |
| 7 | From Fort William drive north for a couple of miles on the A82 to a golf course on the right . |
| 8 | Cos she 'd been wanting to do Aladdin for a couple of years but it was on at The Playhouse |
| 9 | We lost touch for a couple of years and then we met at the Coventry Specimen Group Stag Night and found that each of us had conceded to an extent and were now using almost identical rods . |
| 10 | I watched tv for a couple of hours with this steak on my tummy and nothing happened . |
| 11 | Let's face it , when you work hard all year round to save money for a couple of weeks in the sunshine , you deserve to enjoy yourself . |
| 12 | He had arrived in the late afternoon of a perfect summer 's day , was shortly to go off to the Alps and then the Himalayas and had not touched rock for a couple of years , so the urge for activity was upon him . |
| 13 | We had time for a couple of runs through and set up the tape recorders ( I took two in case of trouble ! ) and by 10 a.m. we were all standing in our place s — white skirts dazzling and hearts beating fast — waiting for the signal to start . |
| 14 | Len , the man whose aristocratic bat could practically score runs without him holding it , was paid £100 for a couple of hours work , playing on stage at the camp theatre with a bat made of Skegness rock . |
| 15 | mark — no news about Frank over here today — sports pages are just filled with headlines of scum going out … frank 's new club played another draw this weekend — they now have a 1–6-2 ( w-d-l ) record ( i watched the goals on Eurosport/Eurogoals programme — never cared much for spanish futba — but i guess i will be following Albacete for a couple of weeks now — when/if frank scores/goes i will keep you guys informed ) |
| 16 | It was bulldozed into oblivion in the 1970s to make way for a couple of undistinguished skyscrapers and a brick-pathed wasteland called by the city , a park . |