Example sentences of "had a couple [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After young bands have had a couple of hit singles , with their album selling well , everybody wants to see them perform live . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've only had a couple of abusive ones , and a couple of nasty telephone calls . ’ |
| 3 | Nothing could wake her up when she 's had a couple of them . |
| 4 | I 've had a couple of nice chats with the people at GMTV , but I told them I was n't in a hurry to decide what I would do next and frankly I do n't envy the people who are going straight on to another show . ’ |
| 5 | I 've already had a couple of tentative enquiries . |
| 6 | They used to do some outrageous things together when they 'd had a couple of beers . |
| 7 | I have had a couple of games at inside centre and am probably more settled in that position but I enjoy playing stand-off most of all ’ . |
| 8 | Sotheby 's had a couple of rare Currier and Ives lithographs : bidding by phone for the very rare ‘ The life of a hunter . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ We 'd had a couple of years to put the break-up into perspective and I know , personally , I was missing the lads and the buzz I used to get from songs like ‘ Suspect Devices ’ and ‘ Straw Dogs ’ . |
| 12 | Apparently there 'd been this girl , Spanish or Portuguese I think , and Ollie had been giving her private lessons at his flat , and he thought she fancied him , and he 'd had a couple of Special Brews at the time and thought she was just shy , and then he tried kissing her , and it 's the old , old , sordid story , is n't it ? |
| 13 | I 've had a couple of stormy sessions with the old rascal trying to keep him on the beam . ’ |
| 14 | I 'm sorry about Antonio 's behaviour , but he 's always like this when he 's had a couple of drinks . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Erm we 've had a couple of flat fires . |
| 17 | The last revellers had finally been seen off at nine in the morning ; they and Margot had done some cleaning up before going to bed , though Ken had anyway had a couple of hours ' sleep between three and five , when he 'd fallen into a deep slumber on the wicker couch in the conservatory . |
| 18 | We 've had a couple of bomb threats lately and it 's been installed to warn staff to clear the building . |
| 19 | It 's so hard to work on full glow when you 've only had a couple of hours kip . |
| 20 | 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 ! ’ |
| 21 | I 've had a couple of letters asking me whether I ever managed to give up smoking as I promised a few months ago . |
| 22 | I 've already had a couple of spats with them and they would n't pass up an opportunity like this to poke fun . |
| 23 | He 'd had a couple of sessions with his union rep and had been told not to worry , it was just a way of filling some quota ; if anything , his job was probably more secure now than it had been before . |
| 24 | I 'd had a couple of drinks , lapped up some fast food , and jumped into a cab . |
| 25 | See I 've had a couple of colds the past few months and then you think , well that 's me , I 'm getting better . |
| 26 | Which , I later discovered , was most forthcoming for George but he 'd already had a couple of orange squashes himself . |
| 27 | Carolyn had had a couple of goes at it and made it into — well , more of a privet dodo than a hen . |
| 28 | We have had a couple of occasions where the money can not be claimed back recently , so this is just to inform you of the position that the insurers are taking . |
| 29 | I can imagine some unpleasant things happening with the sling , too ; the sling-bombs have to be on a pretty short fuse if they 're to detonate soon enough after they land not to be throw-backable , and I 've had a couple of close calls already when they 've gone off just after they left the sling . |
| 30 | She 'd had a couple of little fumbling and innocuous affairs , nothing serious , and she never dared breathe a word to Georg . |