Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a couple [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos the we er did get people contacting the office to say I 've got a lump sum , I 'd like to put it somewhere for a couple of years , and er we always wondered why they 're thinking of a couple of years . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm all right for a couple of minutes . ’ |
| 3 | The wheels would be all right for a couple of days ; then they 'd become ten times worse and they 'd have to come to the smithy . |
| 4 | There was two of them w wi with a Range Rover the other morning er with all sorts of notices and the following morning they had a motorcyclist er hidden behind the hedge as it were er that seemed to obviously put things right for a couple of days . |
| 5 | Go and pack a few things , enough for a couple of days . |
| 6 | You could smell the gas from the coke and ‘ Are you awake there ? ’ and then you might have a little natter with him — but only for a couple of minutes because if the sergeant saw you , you 'd be ‘ on the peg ’ . |
| 7 | Living only for a couple of microseconds on average , the muon can not go from atom to atom catalysing fusion and liberating energy indefinitely ; the dream of the ages is n't so easily fulfilled . |
| 8 | And you saw the marks only for a couple of seconds when he lifted his palms to receive the Host . |
| 9 | People only see the good-for-nothing sons who hang around bars getting into fights and pushing drugs ; they do n't see the real shepherd , the man who spends almost all of his life alone , spends his days making the cheeses they take for granted and his nights sleeping sometimes only for a couple of hours because it 's lambing time . ’ |
| 10 | You must get away , even if it 's only for a couple of days . |
| 11 | ‘ Even if it 's only for a couple of hours , I have to go to bed . ’ |
| 12 | The groups play out their scene for themselves in small groups , but only for a couple of minutes . |
| 13 | It might be helpful for you to pray together as a couple for God 's direction . |
| 14 | Melt half the butter in a saucepan , add the beans and cook gently for a couple of minutes , stirring , then add the savory and just enough boiling water to cover the beans . |
| 15 | He started then with the money , because he had the giro , so I was getting into a mess again , was n't I. So for a couple of weeks we were paid separately . |
| 16 | At first he was asked to stand literally for a couple of seconds before being praised and asked to walk on . |
| 17 | ‘ My lads did all that could be asked of them , especially as a couple of them had to work all night in order to get time off to play . |
| 18 | He licked his lips , rubbed his right index finger and thumb together for a couple of seconds and held Prentice 's foot steady with his left hand . |
| 19 | ‘ Then we 'll be travelling together for a couple of stops . |
| 20 | I know your ego finds that hard to believe , but just because we had a good time together for a couple of days does not necessarily mean that I 'm yours to play with whenever you feel like it ! ’ |
| 21 | So we were in the same group together for a couple of years . ’ |
| 22 | After all , they had been together for a couple of years and she did idolise him . |
| 23 | ‘ The woman involved was a married woman with a family and she and Philip had lived together for a couple of months but she decided to go back to her husband in September . ’ |
| 24 | It was only after a couple of weeks that Minyip deigned to eat alfalfa — which probably saved the lives of both horses . |
| 25 | I was only after a couple of references . ’ |
| 26 | I could see Dad was worried so after a couple of hours of hanging about I offered to return to Mary 's . |
| 27 | But it was really , I mean it , it meant of course that the other people on the boat could have some enjoyment as well , cos I mean , there 's nothing worse i if you if there 's only one rod out , or two rods out th those boats there 's only like a couple of rods out int there on , on |
| 28 | But it is coming , and certainly some of the medium-sized shops , perhaps with a couple of two or three outlets but under the same management , where it 's not quite so easy to see when you 're running out of baked beans , are already beginning to take advantage of some of these retailing computers . |
| 29 | so I got together with a couple of blokes from school ‘ Hold Your Head Up ’ by Argent was in the charts at the time We 'd play that again and again and again It was the only bass line I could play properly — because it 's so simple , it 's exactly the same all the way through . |
| 30 | Together with a couple of swing boats , this was all that remained of the travelling showman 's fair that used to appear at the feast . |