Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] a couple [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then one night Hugo and Jebb ( The Mouse 's twanging Boothby twins ) went there for a quiet beer and the DJ was going , ‘ I 've heard that a couple of Jacob 's Mouse are here and I want to tell them to get off their high horse and come down to play here . |
| 2 | I once had to have a leg replaced when a couple of Hunters tore mine off . |
| 3 | He started shouting for help and about ten or fifteen minutes later , two chaps arrived and a couple of torches shone down on my father at the bottom . |
| 4 | The pothole that gives the route its name is passed and a couple of thin moves are required to reach easier angled rock and the top . |
| 5 | But first , before the orders , true democracy had to be trotted out on the desk in front of the two men like a child 's board game , the dice tossed and a couple of moves played . |