Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] a couple of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He checked his mirrors , changed down a couple of gears and shot the Missile past the Renault . |
| 2 | When Ceauŝescu personally came in on the act they faked a car accident and tricked up a couple of bodies for the Securitate to send back to England . |
| 3 | Specialized in throwing bricks through Jewish shop-windows , heckling leftist speakers , beat up a couple of Liberal Members of Parliament . |
| 4 | I took all of them , then I phoned up a couple of people I knew . |
| 5 | Lewis caught her , staggered back a couple of steps , then forward , as Verity wrapped her arms round his neck and her legs round his waist ; white glances of thigh against the black . |
| 6 | The boy fumbled in the pocket of his shirt , and drew out a couple of crumpled notes . |
| 7 | And he took a poisonous viper and forced its mouth open , and inserted a glass under its fangs and drew out a couple of drops of deadly poison . |
| 8 | ‘ I found out a couple of weeks ago . |
| 9 | He blacked out a couple of his front teeth with stage cosmetics and made his breath smell with chemical — oldest trick in the business to prevent people looking you in the face close to . |
| 10 | He prowled over to the far side of the kitchen , then slammed down a couple of plates , as if he were suddenly finding it very hard to control his own temper . |
| 11 | I woke up a couple of hours later . |
| 12 | Yes we used to go to see her , and she came up a couple of times . |
| 13 | Joe trotted off and came back a couple of minutes later , holding a parcel . |
| 14 | He came back a couple of weeks ago and this time approached me rather than Rex . |
| 15 | It only came out a couple of times , and I could n't get the words apart the end where it sounded something like ‘ scores off the bar , F*CK CANTONA , Brian Deane , Brian Deane , Brian Deane ’ . |
| 16 | He felt in his purse and threw down a couple of copper coins . |
| 17 | I turned down a couple of T V series cos I did n't feel I was right for them . |
| 18 | He could have taken the isolation better if it was n't for the batteries in his radio dying on him without warning ; usually they faded over a couple of nights but this time it was just zonk , no signal . |
| 19 | At one point , laughing , they fired off a couple of rounds , ricocheting the bullets against a wall . |
| 20 | I turned up a couple of minutes early , found the door into the suite ajar and the sitting-room in darkness . |
| 21 | I found nothing else of interest but Bernice turned up a couple of old school exercise books of Billy 's and decided to keep them in remembrance . |
| 22 | I shook out a couple of tablets , rolled them about in my hand , and then put them back , cursing Alice heartily . |
| 23 | So I made up a couple of bottles for them and they said " Oh . " . |
| 24 | He also added his own adaptation of early Beefheart into his strange songs , recorded them and pressed up a couple of hundred records for friends , family and whoever . |
| 25 | I glanced round a couple of times expecting him to appear through the trees with a mouthful of oaths and a loud ‘ Come on , Boyo ! |
| 26 | Rising to his feet , he stretched , as sleek and graceful as one of his own cats , and switched on a couple of standard lamps . |
| 27 | I stumbled over a couple of boxes on the floor . |
| 28 | He pulled off a couple of cracking saves , and for the first time this season United kept everything out . |
| 29 | What I 'm sorry I switched off a couple of minutes ago |
| 30 | The first effective English settlement in the West Indies , founded in 1624 , was on the island of St. Christopher ( later called St. Kitts ) which was shared with the French , informally at first and then by a formal partition worked out a couple of years later which lasted until the British gained the whole island in 1713 . |