Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] a couple [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Socioecology assumes that any ecological opportunity ( technically known as a niche ) exploited in the wild by animals after billions of years of evolution will be filled in a couple of months in a work environment . |
| 2 | It 's interesting that team briefing thing on there , because that 's come up a couple of times recently , people have mentioned about erm team briefing as a sort of management system . |
| 3 | Up ahead Neil Coles was putting together a 66 , which eventually saw him tie with Johnny , but by the fifth or sixth , when we 'd picked up a couple of birdies to Johnny 's pars or bogey , I thought , ‘ This is our Open . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm a dealer and I 've picked up a couple of pieces which I can probably place with clients |
| 5 | Amateur scientists are these days a rare breed , but Ian Ridpath has sought out a couple of the remaining specimens . |
| 6 | She wrapped it round my shoulders at once , ignoring my protests , splashed the nice smell around , propped up a couple of magazines to combat the gloom , and divided the grapes into two bunches . |
| 7 | ‘ Clare has a copy of the paper now , and I have brought in a couple of extra copies ; so perhaps the dinosaur people , at least , might like to have a look at it and see what they think . |
| 8 | Murray has brought in a couple of good players and reckons Hartlepool have a fair chance of challenging for promotion this season — and I think he 's right . |
| 9 | We have also set up a couple of microphones in the real of the hall to break up the echoes which would otherwise bounce off that wall . ’ |
| 10 | Elizabeth had brought up a couple of hot bricks wrapped in pieces of blanket , which she popped into bed at each side of him . |
| 11 | Then there was the news that El Daba airfield was not being used , though Jellicoe had brought back a couple of German prisoners who freely volunteered the information that this was the most important of their forward airfields . |
| 12 | ‘ If you mean the Prince thinks that we 'd be better off if the clock were set back a couple of hundred years , ’ Caroline said , ‘ the answer 's yes . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The idea was that he would be taken up a couple of hundred feet , ’ said Gavin Birkett . |
| 14 | Tony Asmar 's lined up a couple of people in Beirut to shoot some pictures for us near the airport . |
| 15 | ‘ Passed up a couple of total certs to come to your bloody bun-fight , ’ she complained , though she was looking at the poor child all the time , with her eyes half-closed and tossing her head so the sockets would catch the light . |
| 16 | And if your victim happens to be conveniently close to the edge of a tall cliff , by the time he 's bounced down a couple of hundred metres on to the rocks , he 'll be in such a mess that the injury from the blow stands a good chance of being overlooked . |
| 17 | And though she was certain she 'd only sent out a couple of hundred invitations , it felt as though there must be at least ten times as many of the little darlings present . |