Example sentences of "i 've [verb] a couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've run a couple of times . |
| 2 | Any way I 've sent a couple of mailings since no problems . |
| 3 | Apart from the tarpaulin and the mattresses , I 've lost a couple of sleeping bags , some tracksuit bottoms and some trainers . |
| 4 | And er because Phil was here Oliver went to bed about ten so he woke up about ten And I 've swallowed a couple of pills and feel fine . |
| 5 | The TV is on , the sound is low , it 's some not-half-cheeky detective rubbish starring George Segal that I 've seen a couple of times before , just the way I like it . |
| 6 | Are we supposed to be using the pre-course questionnaires that I 've seen a couple of times , on all course ? |
| 7 | Everybody makes a big deal out of it now , because I 've done a couple of albums and you do all these guest sessions and stuff and it 's like ‘ Wow , he plays bass . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've done a couple of Hermia , in fact several , ’ she shoved the book at Ricky . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've done a couple of shows . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've heard a couple of so-called radical journalists are sniffing around , pushed on by Christine Mills . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've won a couple of Sheffield and District Alliances , but this is a bit bigger than that … ‘ |
| 12 | ‘ It 's a time-consuming but very satisfying pastime and I 've won a couple of rally trophies which have added to the pleasure , ’ he said . |
| 13 | I 've had a couple of nice chats with the people at GMTV , but I told them I was n't in a hurry to decide what I would do next and frankly I do n't envy the people who are going straight on to another show . ’ |
| 14 | I 've had a couple of stormy sessions with the old rascal trying to keep him on the beam . ’ |
| 15 | I have to confess that on that , in so far as those that I 've attended , and I 've had a couple in my area I have to confess my surprise at the efficiency of them ! |
| 16 | Although she no longer performs , except as a lecturer ( she is professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in North Carolina ) , she still likes to sing , ‘ When I 've had a couple of glasses ! ’ |
| 17 | I 've had a couple of letters asking me whether I ever managed to give up smoking as I promised a few months ago . |
| 18 | I can imagine some unpleasant things happening with the sling , too ; the sling-bombs have to be on a pretty short fuse if they 're to detonate soon enough after they land not to be throw-backable , and I 've had a couple of close calls already when they 've gone off just after they left the sling . |
| 19 | Erm I I 've had a couple of difficulties with those . |
| 20 | ‘ And I 've had a couple of glasses of Scotch to celebrate finishing a course of antibiotics for a chest infection , ’ he finished wearily . |
| 21 | I was just going to say , I think what you say on full employment , erm , elsewhere they 're keeping wages and pay up is n't it , erm , and I 've known a couple in Telford again , that there 's work there , a new company it 's perfectly easy to take on all the good skilled labour they want , then they say they feel they 're very guilty because they 're poaching it from across the road , the British company has probably been two wages so that the jobs , it does mount up , so I do n't , I , I would like to know more about erm , what the low pay unit would really do to help us , and I look at this eight thousand two hundred and eighty pounds , and I think that would go an awful long way in the Mr Chairman , in helping to keep that going , which creates all the people who leave and get jobs , and good jobs , and get skills , and erm , I , I , it may be if there 's going to be a big budget , eight thousand pounds is not very much , but I , but when you think an individual project like that of course , any sort of traineeship , it 's a lot of money . |
| 22 | Erm I 've mentioned a couple of things on the handout , one from this paper by Sigmund , another from I think this is in the British Journal of Psychiatry , I think they were writing . |
| 23 | It 's well worth doing in one go but it is also well suited to shorter walks — I 've outlined a couple of my favourites . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've bought a couple more outfits , a smart black dress , some good trousers , ’ she said eagerly . |
| 25 | Er , well we get stuff well , actually I 've bought a couple out my case . |
| 26 | I 've told a couple of trusted friends . |
| 27 | No , I 've taken a couple , look . |
| 28 | Erm on the first bit of the handout I 've stuck a couple of definitions of child sex abuse on , just to um give you a little bit of context an and er give you some idea of the sorts of things that people have the sorts of ways in which people are defining this phenomenon nowadays . |
| 29 | ‘ Well I 've got a couple of people off so we 're down this morning . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've got a couple of friends from the old days , they 're vultures now . |