Example sentences of "[been] [adv] a couple [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darren had been dead a couple of months ; I had fallen out with my father and I 'd been in London for most of the summer , staying with Aunt Ilsa and her long-term companion , whose only name appeared to be Mr Gibbon , which I thought made him sound like a cat for some reason … |
| 2 | Bradford was ‘ not troubled with them ’ [ fascists ] , ‘ The Movement does not receive much support ’ in Dewsbury , and there appear to have been only a couple of modest meetings in Huddersfield . |
| 3 | She 'd given him no encouragement — their encounters had been on a light , friendly basis only — but she knew that he 'd long since stopped seeing Louise , and there 'd been only a couple of short-term girlfriends since . |
| 4 | ‘ The band had only been together a couple of months before we started recording that album , so we did n't have time to think about it too much — we just went in and did it . |
| 5 | One more story about O : he told me ( it was as if he was trying to explain the oddity of his lovemaking to me , as if he was trying to account for or apologise for the way he 'd treated me , or perhaps to reassure me concerning the effect he 'd had on me , I do n't know ) , in the morning he told me that there was one man , this had been just a couple of years previously , there was one man who had summoned him to his bedside to be counted amongst a farewell gathering of lovers , dear friends and great passions . |
| 6 | I believe that when the French were here , a man could enlist with the forces and still claim paternity for children born during his absence , even if he 'd been away a couple of years . ’ |
| 7 | We were we had n't been home a couple of two or three weeks then the big war started , nineteen fourteen . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , we 've only been here a couple of days . |
| 9 | ‘ She 's only been here a couple of times , when I needed to work on some papers very urgently . ’ |
| 10 | After David had been there a couple of weeks , I used to go off doing odd bits of work in London , working as a journalist , although I was n't very keen on that side of my life at the time — there were other things that interested me more . |
| 11 | When she had been there a couple of years and I asked her how she was , she said , ‘ Pretty mouldy . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It is , ’ I told him , ‘ It 's only been there a couple of years . |
| 13 | Says she does n't know the engine-room well but has been there a couple of times . |
| 14 | Er you can hire sail boats and er it 's I I 've been there a couple of times . |
| 15 | No it was during the conversation he er he said that I hear that you went to flat and I said yes and he said er well you just missed me , I 'd been there a couple of days before . |
| 16 | One of our friends that we 'd met were there , they 'd been there a couple of weeks |