Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adv] [vb pp] a couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had already done a couple of jumpers for a largish lady , so I embarked on the back of the third . |
| 2 | I had already seen a couple of ringed seals , several eider duck , many Arctic terns and kittiwakes and a few scruffy immature glaucous gulls before I crept into my bunk to sleep . |
| 3 | It was a reasonably clear evening and since I had already had a couple of glasses of champagne I decided to cycle over to Sally 's flat in Fulham . |
| 4 | ‘ That 's not fair , ’ gasped Rachel , ‘ I 've already done a couple of laps ! ’ |
| 5 | I 've already had a couple of tentative enquiries . |
| 6 | I 've already had a couple of spats with them and they would n't pass up an opportunity like this to poke fun . |
| 7 | The cache system survives , and I 've even added a couple of petrol bombs to one or two of the secret stores , where a likely avenue of attack comes in over terrain the bottles would smash on , but the trip-wires I 've dismantled and left in the shed . |
| 8 | Basically , yeah , if I want to , I 've always got a couple of boys to fall back on . |
| 9 | In my first week , I lost nearly a stone but since then I 've only lost a couple of pounds a week . |
| 10 | Very light surgery this morning : I have n't to be in Chollerton until two and I 've only got a couple of calls to make . |
| 11 | I 've only got a couple that I did last week . |
| 12 | I 've only got a couple of loaves . |
| 13 | I 've only had a couple , I can drive . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You like it so much you agreed to sail across the Mediterranean , with a man you 'd only met a couple of times , regardless of the fact that you did n't know one end of a boat from the other . ’ |
| 15 | erm , wo n't you start again because you 'd only got a couple of minutes into it , had n't you ? |
| 16 | She 'd already blown a couple of splendid interview opportunities . |
| 17 | It 's so hard to work on full glow when you 've only had a couple of hours kip . |
| 18 | If you 've only got a couple of hours , best make the most of them . ’ |
| 19 | At first she had just worked a couple of hours a week for Graham . |
| 20 | She had hardly taken a couple of steps before she was surrounded by clubgoers , and was forced to swallow a quick rush of impatience , summoning up her brightest smile as she accepted their compliments . |
| 21 | We 'd just totalled a couple of teenage boys . |
| 22 | Here , the concrete Yeah that but we have n't got the resources to do it yet We 've just got a couple of assumptions At , together at the beginning The tractor and trailer is generally helping moving between cranes loading back and forth , so many areas So , unless you want us to go through this literally point by point , it 's question time . |
| 23 | We 've already had a couple of plonkers sending us demonstration games from the Shoot-Em-Up Construction Kit , but luckily for them we spotted the offending articles ( not difficult ) . |
| 24 | ‘ We 've only had a couple of abusive ones , and a couple of nasty telephone calls . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ In the meantime we 've still got a couple of days left , and I 'd better start getting my act together , or my replacement is going to wonder what sort of service we 've been running here ! |
| 26 | So if they 're going to christen you Walter they 'd better put a couple of names in front of it , one for your spell in the pram plus another for the long haul up to becoming Walter . |
| 27 | You know , I mean they 've still got a couple of books each and I 've bought three |
| 28 | Paige had rather liked her cousin 's husband , though they had only met a couple of times . |
| 29 | Although closely linked with the marathon racing side , he has only done a couple of races and his own paddling has mostly been recreational . |
| 30 | Roirbak led the way to the laboratory annexe of the complex , where he 'd already prepared a couple of rooms for their research . |