Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] a couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | See I 've had a couple of colds the past few months and then you think , well that 's me , I 'm getting better . |
| 2 | If we ca n't e e I 've had a couple of months of stock on the shelf for 'em . |
| 3 | I mean doing a couple of tables probably wo n't be that hard work cos it just be a case of a list of averages or something . |
| 4 | Before we go on to explore in some detail how the Stress Syndrome comes about I want to make a couple of general points . |
| 5 | Then I seemed to grow a couple of inches , and thin out . |
| 6 | I 'd seen a couple of caesarian sections , but I 'd never done one or been shown how . |
| 7 | Says Lt Watts , a Northern Ireland veteran : ‘ Before Bosnia I 'd seen a couple of bodies in road accidents but that was just it . |
| 8 | I 'd noticed a couple of characters in different bars who also seemed more interested in the people than the liquor , and it did n't need any Sherlock Holmes to know who was paying for their drinks . |
| 9 | Supposing , when Rozanov and I visited the porno bookshop , I said I 'd bought a couple of hardcore videos , hired a video recorder at the hotel , and spent two afternoons watching porn in my room . |
| 10 | In fact I 'd told a couple of the group — Mr and Mrs Kronquist , I think it was — that I was going up to Summertown . ’ |
| 11 | I 'd left a couple of rings on which were really hard to get off . |
| 12 | I 'd had a couple of drinks , lapped up some fast food , and jumped into a cab . |
| 13 | I forgot to take a couple when I got back to England . |
| 14 | I seem to remember a couple of his headers back to the goalie going astray last year ( including one in that humil iating defeat at Man City , 4–0 ) . |
| 15 | Everybody I know plays a couple of instruments . ’ |
| 16 | I managed to win a couple of quid on Deano to score the first goal , at odds of 7–1 . |
| 17 | Chairman I do have a couple of questions , I do have a couple of questions if I may . |
| 18 | Chairman I do have a couple of questions , I do have a couple of questions if I may . |
| 19 | If your joints are good , no cramping is necessary but I did put a couple of webbing cramps on my chair just to be on the safe side . |
| 20 | When I had first arrived I had seen a couple of press people milling around , but now there seemed to be a whole platoon of them , cameras at the ready . |
| 21 | Well if you sort of leave him out of a conversation , he goes a bit funny , he storms off , I think I had noticed a couple of times that he has , and you see what happens is he sits there |
| 22 | I had met a couple of girls on the beach at Pipeline . |
| 23 | Naturally enough I had to play a couple of games for the long-suffering Jewish Chronicle photographer ( who must have nightmares about having to snap me on his deathbed ) . |
| 24 | Towards the summit I had to cross a couple of snowfields , and there was a final rock-climb to get to the top . |
| 25 | ‘ I had to pay a couple of months ’ rent yesterday to keep 'em quiet . |
| 26 | I had taken a couple of slices of bread up the tree with me , with the intention of feeding small pieces of pinched flake into their midst to see if they would accept them . |
| 27 | I 've run a couple of times . |
| 28 | Any way I 've sent a couple of mailings since no problems . |
| 29 | Apart from the tarpaulin and the mattresses , I 've lost a couple of sleeping bags , some tracksuit bottoms and some trainers . |
| 30 | 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 . |