Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] a couple " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Erm I I 've had a couple of difficulties with those . |
| 33 | ‘ And I 've had a couple of glasses of Scotch to celebrate finishing a course of antibiotics for a chest infection , ’ he finished wearily . |
| 34 | I was just going to say , I think what you say on full employment , erm , elsewhere they 're keeping wages and pay up is n't it , erm , and I 've known a couple in Telford again , that there 's work there , a new company it 's perfectly easy to take on all the good skilled labour they want , then they say they feel they 're very guilty because they 're poaching it from across the road , the British company has probably been two wages so that the jobs , it does mount up , so I do n't , I , I would like to know more about erm , what the low pay unit would really do to help us , and I look at this eight thousand two hundred and eighty pounds , and I think that would go an awful long way in the Mr Chairman , in helping to keep that going , which creates all the people who leave and get jobs , and good jobs , and get skills , and erm , I , I , it may be if there 's going to be a big budget , eight thousand pounds is not very much , but I , but when you think an individual project like that of course , any sort of traineeship , it 's a lot of money . |
| 35 | Erm I 've mentioned a couple of things on the handout , one from this paper by Sigmund , another from I think this is in the British Journal of Psychiatry , I think they were writing . |
| 36 | It 's well worth doing in one go but it is also well suited to shorter walks — I 've outlined a couple of my favourites . |
| 37 | ‘ I 've bought a couple more outfits , a smart black dress , some good trousers , ’ she said eagerly . |
| 38 | Er , well we get stuff well , actually I 've bought a couple out my case . |
| 39 | I 've told a couple of trusted friends . |
| 40 | No , I 've taken a couple , look . |
| 41 | Erm on the first bit of the handout I 've stuck a couple of definitions of child sex abuse on , just to um give you a little bit of context an and er give you some idea of the sorts of things that people have the sorts of ways in which people are defining this phenomenon nowadays . |
| 42 | ‘ Well I 've got a couple of people off so we 're down this morning . |
| 43 | ‘ I 've got a couple of friends from the old days , they 're vultures now . |
| 44 | I 've got a couple of them . |
| 45 | Linda Duff of The Star says afterwards , ‘ I 've got a couple of stories on them anyway and , with another tabloid present , I was n't about to give them away … ‘ |
| 46 | I can easily walk to do shopping and so on , but I 've got a couple of suitcases here now , and I certainly ca n't manage those . ’ |
| 47 | I 've got a couple of other things to check . |
| 48 | ‘ I 've got a couple of hours to spare this afternoon . |
| 49 | Er , I 've got a couple of brochures here , if you like to have a look at but do n't , please , take them away . |
| 50 | I 've got a couple of things to do . ’ |
| 51 | ‘ I 've got a couple of things to do , first . |
| 52 | ‘ I 've got a couple of phone numbers for him too . |
| 53 | I 've got a couple of letters I 'd like to get off before lunch . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ I 've got a couple of books on marketing that you could read . |
| 55 | Well I 've , I 've got a couple of applications on the go . |
| 56 | I 've got a couple of Siamese moggies , I know what they 're like . |
| 57 | I 've got a couple of pieces of correspondence about things you 've already looked at , erm , just minor alterations |
| 58 | I 've got a couple of things . |
| 59 | I 've got a couple of lab reports to rush through for Niall . ’ |
| 60 | Yes , I 've got a guy in , well I 've got a couple of people on the shift , and er , the more you give them to do , they just love it , but the thing about it is , I think the mistake that I certainly make from time to time , is the more you give them to do , you 've sort of erm , taken something from somebody else , and then it , it 's trying to keep that erm , trying to keep that more level , and fairness to everybody . |