Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] a couple [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have been better placed a couple of weeks later ; at least the readers would have been familiar with the mood and pace of the album . |
| 2 | Although closely linked with the marathon racing side , he has only done a couple of races and his own paddling has mostly been recreational . |
| 3 | ‘ You like it so much you agreed to sail across the Mediterranean , with a man you 'd only met a couple of times , regardless of the fact that you did n't know one end of a boat from the other . ’ |
| 4 | Paige had rather liked her cousin 's husband , though they had only met a couple of times . |
| 5 | the end of the last straw you see , so I went in the Co-Op and I felt really , really fed up , I said I oh I said I could cry I said because I 've tried so hard I said not for lending you money I said , I 'm not meant to have any sodding luck so got a couple of bits and I really could n't get me act together and on the Tuesday dad 's gone in hospital with that fit , so I was thinking of him a lot and I thought I do n't know dad , you know I 'm sure , I 'm sure that he were n't gon na come out when he went in there , I thought they were gon na bloody find something with you boy and that would be it , so I come home here and I ai n't done no work , so I started off for work , both sitting here bloody bawling cos this house looked like shit , spoke to me sister on the phone and er I felt a bit better so I thought oh I 'd start doing the tree , so I pulled it all to bits in here , got the polish and duster out , put all the bread and everything for Alan 's sandwiches , it 'd be about oh , about half past twelve and the bloody phone went it was mum , she said Lyn do you think you can come up to the hospital with me , cos I 've got no transport and so I said what 's up then mum ? |
| 6 | Very light surgery this morning : I have n't to be in Chollerton until two and I 've only got a couple of calls to make . |
| 7 | erm , wo n't you start again because you 'd only got a couple of minutes into it , had n't you ? |
| 8 | If you 've only got a couple of hours , best make the most of them . ’ |
| 9 | I 've only got a couple of loaves . |
| 10 | Two of the Kamalians only needed a couple of metres of the wire to render him helpless and under continual self-torture . |
| 11 | ‘ We 've only had a couple of abusive ones , and a couple of nasty telephone calls . ’ |
| 12 | It 's so hard to work on full glow when you 've only had a couple of hours kip . |
| 13 | He 's sound as a pound is n't he like , he 's only had a couple of pints . |
| 14 | Obviously having only played a couple of gigs , including Radio City ( New York and appearing on The Grammy Awards , their inexperience showed . |
| 15 | He 'd only played a couple of games for 'em by then . |
| 16 | So if they 're going to christen you Walter they 'd better put a couple of names in front of it , one for your spell in the pram plus another for the long haul up to becoming Walter . |
| 17 | There was no embassy in Naples but there was probably some consular representation although the War had only finished a couple of years before and not just Italy but the whole of Europe was hopelessly disorganised . |
| 18 | In my first week , I lost nearly a stone but since then I 've only lost a couple of pounds a week . |
| 19 | It must have only lasted a couple of minutes but believe me it felt like hours . |
| 20 | But er Berty said it would have only lasted a couple of weeks , cos Alec wo n't talk . |
| 21 | He 's just given a couple of experimental tugs on the lifting slings and he reckons the bomber , with the help of the flotation bags , of course , is nearing a state of neutral buoyancy . |
| 22 | We 'd just totalled a couple of teenage boys . |
| 23 | I had already seen a couple of ringed seals , several eider duck , many Arctic terns and kittiwakes and a few scruffy immature glaucous gulls before I crept into my bunk to sleep . |
| 24 | I had already done a couple of jumpers for a largish lady , so I embarked on the back of the third . |
| 25 | ‘ That 's not fair , ’ gasped Rachel , ‘ I 've already done a couple of laps ! ’ |
| 26 | Roirbak led the way to the laboratory annexe of the complex , where he 'd already prepared a couple of rooms for their research . |
| 27 | ‘ Many people feel that Radio 1 has just made a couple of minor alterations to get the critics off their backs . |
| 28 | She 's already missed a couple of days . ’ |
| 29 | He had a small touring company which had just suffered a couple of deaths in a carriage accident , and he was looking for two versatile and experienced ( yes ! ) players . |
| 30 | I 've already had a couple of tentative enquiries . |