Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] have [verb] a couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up to the fifth floor , then walk down to the third , where he 'd taken a couple of rooms . |
| 2 | Although she 'd seen a couple of nice men recently , when it came to the heavy breathing Miranda found that she did n't want to be touched intimately by anyone she did n't know well . |
| 3 | So we can estimate this model although we 've got a couple of problems that we 'll come to later on , but nevertheless it 's essentially estimatable . |
| 4 | Well initially we we 're we 're going to we 're going to go nationally but very quickly we 're gon na see where erm our strengths and weaknesses are erm and we know already where the erm the large market is and once we 've had a couple of T V spots to make it known nationally erm in the end of course we 're gon na have to erm probably concentrate on those areas which erm er which 'll give us the best return . |
| 5 | If I 've got a couple of these blank , I can not finish on Friday night , I 'm going to have to do some overtime . |
| 6 | If you 've backed a couple of horses , and if you 'll be gone the next day , you stay there like everybody else and listen to the commentaries . |
| 7 | One or two of the excellent ones was spent , was spoiled by a little bit of er need to erm edit very carefully introdu introduction of concepts you must be careful not to , if you 've got a couple of hundred words only , but do n't introduce er concepts diversity of design must of been er a phrase picked up from the video itself because it appeared in two or three of them , but it 's no use talking about diversity and divine is it , de design as if , as if it 's a concept which everybody else is going to understand . |
| 8 | It 's not as if you 've got a couple of plain rows you can |
| 9 | The Blues boss said today : ‘ I am not saying anything about our actual selection until we have had a couple more training sessions . |
| 10 | Erm but you know if if they 've got a couple of years in er something and |
| 11 | The girls had come out of surgery ‘ looking like they had gone a couple of rounds with Frank Bruno ’ . |
| 12 | if it 'd happened a couple of weeks ago when she was about I would of kept going over like she said I could do |
| 13 | If Gary 's so rich , who cares if he 's got a couple of million dollars " worth of heroin in the kitchen ? " |
| 14 | Everybody makes a big deal out of it now , because I 've done a couple of albums and you do all these guest sessions and stuff and it 's like ‘ Wow , he plays bass . |
| 15 | One evening after she 'd completed a couple of laps of the pool she was surprised to see David Markham stroll out of the changing-rooms on to the poolside . |
| 16 | After he 'd played a couple of tunes , the organ grinder took off his old frayed cap and handed it round the crowd that had gathered . |
| 17 | Although she no longer performs , except as a lecturer ( she is professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in North Carolina ) , she still likes to sing , ‘ When I 've had a couple of glasses ! ’ |
| 18 | and it was later on when she 'd had a couple of tomatoes . |
| 19 | Nothing could wake her up when she 's had a couple of them . |
| 20 | Benny had elected to carry only a revolver , though she had tucked a couple of grenades in the pockets of a second safari jacket she had pilfered from the TARDIS 's wardrobe . |
| 21 | When they had eaten a couple of mouthfuls they started to open their mail . |
| 22 | They used to do some outrageous things together when they 'd had a couple of beers . |
| 23 | ‘ Better ? ’ she said when he 'd taken a couple of swallows , and he managed to nod again . |
| 24 | I 'm sorry about Antonio 's behaviour , but he 's always like this when he 's had a couple of drinks . ’ |