Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [prep] a couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nicola told me she 'd found out about a couple of drug smuggling operations in this country run by the Mafia . ’ |
| 2 | Yet , although the leaders of both sides of industry worked hard to achieve a common agreement on policies to present to the government the talks , and the influence they exerted , began to wither away after a couple of years , and did not survive into the 1930s . |
| 3 | We got settled down in a couple of cane chairs , and I gave her a cigarette . |
| 4 | Still , they decided to hang out for a couple of days and party with the likes of SHABBA RANKS and KRS-1 . |
| 5 | He had bundled everything he had worn yesterday into a couple of carrier-bags . |
| 6 | If I had gone away for a couple of days , I returned expecting almost to have to push the door open but to my amazement , the place was immaculate . |
| 7 | When he was seen in the special department , after blood tests for syphilis , taken as a last resort , had turned out strongly positive , he remembered having noticed a sore on his penis some five months earlier but had not bothered with it as it was not painful and had gone away after a couple of weeks . |
| 8 | We had worked together in a couple of other wards . |
| 9 | ‘ The woman involved was a married woman with a family and she and Philip had lived together for a couple of months but she decided to go back to her husband in September . ’ |