Example sentences of "i [vb base] [verb] a couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Before we go on to explore in some detail how the Stress Syndrome comes about I want to make a couple of general points . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Everybody I know plays a couple of instruments . ’ |
| 5 | Chairman I do have a couple of questions , I do have a couple of questions if I may . |
| 6 | Chairman I do have a couple of questions , I do have a couple of questions if I may . |
| 7 | I 've run a couple of times . |
| 8 | Any way I 've sent a couple of mailings since no problems . |
| 9 | Apart from the tarpaulin and the mattresses , I 've lost a couple of sleeping bags , some tracksuit bottoms and some trainers . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Are we supposed to be using the pre-course questionnaires that I 've seen a couple of times , on all course ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've done a couple of Hermia , in fact several , ’ she shoved the book at Ricky . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've done a couple of shows . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've heard a couple of so-called radical journalists are sniffing around , pushed on by Christine Mills . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've won a couple of Sheffield and District Alliances , but this is a bit bigger than that … ‘ |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | I 've had a couple of stormy sessions with the old rascal trying to keep him on the beam . ’ |
| 21 | 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 ! |
| 22 | 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 ! ’ |
| 23 | I 've had a couple of letters asking me whether I ever managed to give up smoking as I promised a few months ago . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Erm I I 've had a couple of difficulties with those . |
| 26 | ‘ And I 've had a couple of glasses of Scotch to celebrate finishing a course of antibiotics for a chest infection , ’ he finished wearily . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've bought a couple more outfits , a smart black dress , some good trousers , ’ she said eagerly . |