Example sentences of "he [verb] a couple [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , I did n't get no trouble from the bloke , 'e plonked a couple of quid into me mitt just before 'e said cheerio . ’ |
| 2 | But if you ask him to spare a couple of hours to help out at a St John Ambulance fund-raising activity or a garden fête for the church roof repair fund , he might find that a worthwhile thing to do . |
| 3 | so I told him to buy a couple of pies and some biscuits while I went to phone someone . |
| 4 | apart from one Reverend the most Reverend Doyle or something and he saw one gunmen and he saw him fire a couple of shots and they told him to piss off out of sort of thing |
| 5 | He saw him pull a couple of rabbits out from under a bush so he must have had the boots too . ’ |
| 6 | So he made a couple of phone calls to Osnabrück-he found he 'd been given a room with an Engineer regiment-then sipped a lager until train time . |
| 7 | He lived a couple of miles away in a cottage on a farm at Pilton , a cottage where he and my Dad were born . |
| 8 | ‘ Or did he want a couple with the same number of children as he had ? |
| 9 | His son , a bachelor of twenty-five , became King Henry V , and he experienced a couple of attempts to usurp him during the first year , but by August 1415 he was able to sail with an invasion fleet of 1500 vessels to France , where he withstood an attack launched on 25th . |
| 10 | This was how a Florida man described the graffiti with which he defaced a couple of hundred public library books over a three year period between 1977 and 1980 . |
| 11 | David Speedy 's eighth goal of the season he 's top scorer here he got a couple in the last home game against Notts County and that was as Ron perfectly described it a real predator in action there . |
| 12 | After somewhat flippantly suggesting that he head a couple of hundred miles south to the banks of the River Thames , I pointed him in the direction of a purple clad stand just two along from our own . |
| 13 | He has a couple of fields behind his cottage and keeps a few beasts . |
| 14 | Graham picked up his holdalls and walked away to the cafeteria , where he changed a couple of Swiss francs into loose change then made a call on one of the public telephones , positioning himself in such a way so he could study the two men as he described them to Philpott . |
| 15 | He used a couple of them bits before if that 's all the same to you . |
| 16 | He stopped a couple of feet away . |
| 17 | At the end he played a couple of sets of variations as an encore . |
| 18 | He played a couple of reserve and A team games for us on trial . |
| 19 | He played a couple of reserve and A team games for us on trial . |
| 20 | He lifted a couple of mugs down from the shelf . |
| 21 | I asked my husband to melt holes through the plastic , just smaller than peanuts and quite close together ; then he poked a couple of tiny holes through the ‘ open ’ end to take wire hangers They look like giant ice-cream cones , hanging at the window and the red ones seem to be the most popular . |
| 22 | Er he suffered a couple of wounds as a ma as a matter of fact . |
| 23 | He came a couple of months before Canon Wheeler . |
| 24 | Another warning jab of the gun through the seatback made him start , and he dropped a couple of coins at his feet . |
| 25 | Yes if we catch him he eats a couple of carrots in his hand |
| 26 | He rearranged a couple of silver paperweights and brushed his long white hair with his hand . |
| 27 | A few yards away he noticed a couple of unsympathetic men raising the lid of the Luggage and pointing excitedly at the bags of gold . |
| 28 | He stooped a couple of times to shift a sheet of corrugated iron or warped plasterboard , but did n't find anything . |
| 29 | He dug a couple of notes out of his pocket and thrust them at her . |
| 30 | Well they , they just you know they they just have this erm craft sort of , they do stall and and they make stuff for the shop they had he had a couple of retail shops , he had a factory yeah I think he said he had fifty two people working for him . |