Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] [pers pn] a couple " in BNC.
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1 | I had met him a couple of times , and he had submitted a paper I had written for publication in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society . |
2 | I had met her a couple of times back in the world , but only at Dreamer functions . |
3 | I 've wore it a couple of times for . |
4 | Oh I 've seen it a couple of times , yeah . |
5 | ‘ I 've met him a couple of times . |
6 | I 've met 'er a couple o' times . ’ |
7 | I 've given him a couple of garters for his socks . |
8 | ‘ I 've known her a couple of years . |
9 | the swing and I 've bought them a couple of wooden puzzles where you pick the bits up so , I thought well then I 'll call it a day there , and that 'll be that |
10 | Even though I have met him a couple of times . |
11 | ‘ OK , ’ she conceded , ‘ maybe I have spotted him a couple of times . |
12 | You feel like you 've heard them a couple of hundred times when it 's only been twice . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | She 's given me a couple of great ideas . |
15 | Well , we 've done it a couple of times before . |
16 | We 've won it a couple of times have n't we ? |
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 . |