Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] a couple [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cover the salmon with kitchen foil and press the salmon down with a weighted board or a couple of heavy cans . |
| 2 | Yeah , so what I 'm doing , I 'll these , gon na make about a hundred or one bit or a couple of bits and some butterfly cakes and the cakes and plates and cling film , charge them a quid , eight for a pound |
| 3 | But no sooner was Mr Major off his battlebus than a couple of eggs took flight . |
| 4 | ‘ Right , tea and a couple of biscuits now , and supper later . ’ |
| 5 | How would you fancy having a heart attack with a priest and a couple of altar boys hopping round throwing cold water all over your head ? |
| 6 | We each left the bulk of our estates to the other , with a couple of minor legacies — my old college and a couple of godchildren on my side , and her sister on hers . ’ |
| 7 | bag , rather than keep buying it in , a couple of pound and a couple of pound there . |
| 8 | The library was empty except for an elderly man pottering in Biography and a couple of schoolchildren in the reference section ; there was opportunity for what Joyce called a natter , and no escaping it . |
| 9 | He was holding a key and a couple of toilet rolls ; he said something Rory did n't catch . |
| 10 | Well then they all come out , everybody , even Dave come out of the union and the only two that were left in it were Jane and Karen on our side and a couple from the warehouse and like there was Judith and I think Sonyou and a couple from the letter shop I , I , I do n't know , I do n't think Elaine went but I think the rest were , yes there were Pam and I think , I think Nigel were , but anyway when Judith comes up about what union money was left , I do n't know where it was left from or how it 's imposed , but they split the |
| 11 | Removing the worry of finding other jobs should make it easier for the players to focus on their cricket and there is also the hope that a couple of the kids to benefit from having our lads coaching them in the winter will develop into Notts players of the future . ’ |
| 12 | Derek seems to remember that it was shortly after this change that a couple of what could have been nasty instances occurred . |
| 13 | Buy some planting mixtures , a stake and a couple of tree ties when you buy your tree . |
| 14 | He had about a pound on him , in small change , which would buy no more than a chocolate bar and a couple of packets of crisps . |
| 15 | I hung a right which cost us a fair amount of starboard body work and a couple of hub caps . |
| 16 | Anyway , what I 'm askin' you to do now is to get on your feet and go and get me a drop of gin and a couple of pints of beer . ’ |
| 17 | Reynolds decided that a ring-file and a couple of paperbacks were all the disguise that he needed — it was early in the term and the place was full of strangers . |
| 18 | And the odds are the German on the sun lounger will have marked his spot early in the morning with a Game Boy and a couple of games cartridges . |
| 19 | I am great fan of tennis , especially women 's tennis and a couple of weeks ago I went down to Brighton to the semi-final matches of the Midland Bank Indoor Championships . |
| 20 | A shocked demeanour and a couple of nettle stings to valiant rescuer Beverley were the only legacies . |
| 21 | ‘ I played soccer all the way through school and never entertained the thought of rugby until a couple of friends took me down to Preston Grasshoppers . |
| 22 | Not surprisingly in this sprawling rural district the tories are the second largest grouping on the council and a couple of gains for them could deny the independents overall control . |
| 23 | She 's got a trolley basket and a couple of placky bags full of stuff and she 's made a sort of seat out of them so she 's real comfy like . |
| 24 | I 'm wanted on the phone , and then I have a long-standing business lunch and a couple of other appointments . |
| 25 | It recommended doing away with juries in complicated fraud cases and using a special tribunal of a judge and a couple of chaps who understand what 's going on in court . |
| 26 | Some figures were coming up from the road to meet him , a girl and a couple of boys . |
| 27 | Take a typical staircase in your home ( 3–35° ) , tilt it to match the angle of the sides of Egypt 's Great Pyramids at Giza ( 52° ) , remove some of the steps , and shovel ice and a couple of feet of snow over the whole affair . |
| 28 | She saw the old man who had accosted her on her walk that afternoon proceeding at the head of a little posse consisting of a neatly dressed man , a woman with untidy hair and a couple of children . |
| 29 | We 're down the road on the left , Jacobean brick and a couple of montanas round the door . |
| 30 | Luckily the victim put up a fight and a couple of passers-by joined in , so that the assailant failed to accomplish what the local newspaper delicately referred to as ‘ his appalling purpose . ’ ’ |