Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] a couple " in BNC.

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1 Parents who have watched their children grow and develop are just as likely to have insights into the development of their child as the teacher who has taught for a couple of years .
2 she 'd gone for a couple of days when she was up but she says she has n't been up to see her for about eighteen months !
3 My time would only be impressive if clocked by sundial but I was pleased with it , though I could have done with a couple of gym sessions to get in shape .
4 ‘ You could have done with a couple of stitches here .
5 I 'll have finished in a couple of hours .
6 We should have knocked in a couple of goals and killed off the game . ’
7 ‘ I think if Kylie Minogue has been a flash in the pan she would have lasted for a couple of singles .
8 I 've pondered over a couple of the things .
9 Even in its best days the circulation of the magazine had been limited to some eight hundred subscribers ( most of whom were " Eliot watchers " , according to Stephen Spender ) and by the time it had ceased publication that number had dropped to a couple of hundred .
10 Perhaps he had hit a patch of false going which caused him to lose his action , or had a fleeting muscular spasm which lost him the use of his hind legs — something like Bryan Marshall had reported after a couple of his races earlier in the season .
11 As you know I 've er been holding a number of er small meetings with staff er and one of the questions I 've been asking is whether or not there has been a need for the building presentation that we 've done for a couple of years er and generally there was the view expressed that yes it was desirable but perhaps in a different format .
12 Approaching the crags we 've seen for a couple of days .
13 ‘ Kenny Dalglish could buy them both in a week with the money I 've spent in a couple of years on a rebuilding job .
14 Sapan had brought along a couple of passengers too .
15 I mean , they the men are more stronger and that but I 've run around a couple of them and I 've lo
16 They were not too concerned with what had happened to a couple of whores in Paris over ten years ago , or even the other matter .
17 Finally , one of the students whom I had worked with a couple of summers previously came back to me just before I left post to discuss his third year project at Shrivenham and I was able to arrange for him to do a project involving the linking of a commercial graphical package to the expert system developed as part of the war time operation aid mentioned previously .
18 That somebody else was Stanley Kubrick , the young director Kirk had worked with a couple of years earlier on Paths of Glory and a man whose greatest success ( 2001 : A Space Odyssey ) and biggest disaster ( Barry Lyndon ) were the result of his mammoth ego .
19 ‘ I do n't presume to know the kinds of problems you have experienced as a couple , but I must say that jealousy is unattractive .
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