Example sentences of "[pers pn] be a couple [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said to Rob I said well I 'm a couple of pounds lighter . |
| 2 | ‘ No , I was a couple of minutes early . |
| 3 | Oh yeah cos I was a couple of years later than that , so I managed to , sort of , avoid the first year or so |
| 4 | No I think theirs was a couple of weeks ago . |
| 5 | Oh I er I could n't tell you be a couple of feet or something like that . |
| 6 | If you were a couple of minutes late , you had to go down and see the superintendent . |
| 7 | Yeah she 's a couple of years younger so she 's |
| 8 | His sister — she was a couple of years older than him , blonde where he was dark , and running away — last night she had told him she was running away . |
| 9 | She was a couple of steps ahead . |
| 10 | ‘ I think we 're a couple of romantics at heart . ’ |
| 11 | Down on the path beside her are a couple of brown bottles — I ca n't read the labels from this distance . |
| 12 | They 're a couple of big 'uns and no mistake . |
| 13 | They 're a couple of harmless old girls . |
| 14 | No , sheds are pretty expensive as well they 're a couple of hundred quid are n't they ? |
| 15 | They spent that first night of their return to public life just standing close together in silence , like they were a couple of lovers ; but they were n't , of course , not yet . |
| 16 | They were a couple of sharp boys , his nephews , especially Sean . |
| 17 | They were a couple of originals , Sheila and Matthew . |
| 18 | They were a couple of travelling hedgers and ditchers who were currently working at Bakers Farm down by the river . |
| 19 | He had felt an affinity with the brothers because they were a couple of hard nuts , but he had also found they had definite criminal tendencies . |
| 20 | Once they were a couple of miles from the Manor , where the woods were at their most impenetrable , she reined in Moonbeam and drew to a halt in a little glade . |
| 21 | They were a couple of collaborators . |
| 22 | People were most conscious of how far they were from their family in times of crisis , when someone was sick or dying and they were a couple of continents away separated by a long slow haul by boat and train . |
| 23 | They were a couple in their mid-fifties , I 'd say , but dressed like they thought they were twenty years younger . |
| 24 | All he had on him was a couple of quid in small change . ’ |
| 25 | Behind it are a couple of clapboard cabins , their windows gone and their planks left to loosen in a wind that never quite dies . |
| 26 | But , or because same thing like it were a couple of years ago , with finances . |
| 27 | It 's a couple of miles into the forest . ’ |
| 28 | It 's a couple of hours ’ drive from Berlin , and they 're expecting us in the morning . |
| 29 | It 's a couple of hundred acres you want to replant ? " |
| 30 | He said it 's a couple of cocks and a few leeks chucked in . |