Example sentences of "be [verb] a couple [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martin needed a bit of time to settle down and should have been given a couple of throws in his usual position in the middle before going to the front and staying there . |
| 2 | there was a I mean I 've also been given a couple of ways to remember it but |
| 3 | The reasons that we need guidelines now is we had n't time to study them at the time and up to the present moment , as far as I 'm aware there 's one section that 's just been formed a couple of months ago . |
| 4 | These are situated a couple of kilometres south of Matlock and are reached by turning east off the A6 just south of the junction with the A5012 . |
| 5 | Of medium height , he was known as a dresser and had been tipped a couple of times for those best-dressed men lists . |
| 6 | All for the sum of £50 including a setup and ‘ we 're building a couple of guitars for Gary Moore with a push/pull volume pot to provide the Peter Green out of phase sound . |
| 7 | They 're sending , they 're sending a couple of . |
| 8 | Apparently it does to others too , though they 're finding a couple of monolithic organisations holding up the flow . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd been offered a couple of things in the league , and I could have gone to Kuwait or South Africa . |
| 10 | you know , if they want the first day , then there gon na have to do another lot so what 's the point of sort of yourself out with fucking , I was n't really sure at the time that I wanted to go to so , you know , I , I said no I needed this job , but probably a bad I 've been offered a couple of month one 's as well , one month and two month 's , but I mean the trouble is |
| 11 | Even if you are moving a couple of miles and decide to do-it-yourself , hire a van . |
| 12 | The police , most of whom I knew , because of the great help they had given us when we had been burgled a couple of years earlier , said no , they did n't have the key , and in any case it was the council who must be approached . |
| 13 | The sun stood uncertainly on the horizon , a disc of perfect orange , hovering above the smudge of suburban parks and tiled roofs , the same sun Spittals had been admiring a couple of hours before . |
| 14 | The important thing to remember when painting is that boards should first be given a couple of coats of undercoat and left to dry properly . |
| 15 | I am dabbling in a costume jewellery project to help local youth groups earn money and I 'm helping a couple of ‘ city girls ’ start a coffee shop for ‘ world travellers ’ , which Nongkhai seems to have in ever increasing numbers . |
| 16 | Typing in date and time formats is tedious so the next logical steps for any reader whose spreadsheet requires this primitive method of date entry ( i.e 1-2-3 Release 2. x , AsEasyAs , SuperCalc 5 and so on ) would be to write a couple of simple keystrokes macros so that you could reduce the typing required to the minimum . |
| 17 | Transfer mixture to a bowl ( all this can be done a couple of hours before ) . |
| 18 | The only answer seemed to be to feed a couple of minutes every half hour or so . |
| 19 | So will you perhaps be wanting a couple of bags , say , of coal to help with the fire ? |
| 20 | I 'm expecting a couple of overseas phone calls at the house . ’ |
| 21 | They 're they 're the whatsername So I 'm sending a couple of pound until it 's paid up . |
| 22 | I said , I 'm having a couple of days I said , oh they 're different a but she did n't know row of them . |
| 23 | " I 'm taking a couple of hours ' kip . |
| 24 | I 'm just trying to move passed that I 'm making a couple of holes bigger . |
| 25 | They used to get erm these people on the Election Panel used to be paid a couple of guineas a time for their lectures |
| 26 | The event was supposed to be staged a couple of weeks back , but was postponed because Lewis was said to be unwell and still in America . |
| 27 | ‘ Your uncle Maurice has been gone a couple of hours ? ’ |
| 28 | With each path there are associated a couple of numbers : one represents the size of a wave and the other represents the position in the cycle ( i.e. , whether it is at a crest or a trough ) . |
| 29 | Instead , it is supposed to follow every possible path in space-time , and with each of these histories there are associated a couple of numbers , one representing the size of a wave and the other representing its position in the cycle ( its phase ) . |
| 30 | He presents the stories of each community , first as they reacted to invasion and conquest , then as they were treated a couple of centuries later as white settlers took over their lands , and , finally , how the few surviving descendants of these once-proud people are faring today . |