Example sentences of "up [prep] a couple of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , if there 's no visa I 'm gon na live it up for a couple of days , then put me foot down and not take it off till I get to Gib . |
| 2 | ‘ We should have a rehearsal — you know , go up for a couple of days ahead of everyone else so we wo n't look like eejits . ’ |
| 3 | Then they ( the police ) would lock me up for a couple of hours at a time but I did n't get charged until I was 15 . ’ |
| 4 | The plot fires off in every direction at once , almost entirely wasting some of a fine ensemble cast ( Maria De Medirios shows up for a couple of close ups and little more ) , introducing sub-plots at the very last minute ( a homosexual love affair between the opera 's leading man and director is inexplicably absent from the rest of the movie ) and turning from light comedy to an intense marital drama with no warning . |
| 5 | Anthony left instructions that you could get up for a couple of hours if you felt up to it . |
| 6 | We acclimatise with shorter trips for the first few days , then split for free sailing , meeting up for a couple of days to brief for another long session of free sailing . |
| 7 | This year I have my mummy and my daddy coming up for a couple of days and that will be fine |
| 8 | it was done in a very un-run way , because the notice , the notice was , was er it 'd be up about a couple of days and then it 'd come down , you see , so it did n't give anybody a lot of chance , but anyway now it 's been passed you see it goes ahead and that 's all there is to it , he , he has n't start doing it yet but |
| 9 | The relay will usually free up after a couple of doses of light oil in this manner . |
| 10 | It was picked up after a couple of rings . |
| 11 | Have we come up with a couple of summer scorchers for you . |
| 12 | ‘ No , I 've come to see if you can fix her up with a couple of skirts and blouses , Annie , from your unredeemed stuff . |
| 13 | ‘ They usually come up with a couple of lesser-known names , and if I can keep the runs coming I like to think I might at least get a mention . ’ |
| 14 | I ended up with a couple of pairs of trousers , a couple of T-shirts , a jumper and a pair of shoes . |
| 15 | Later they meet up with a couple of girls whose telephone numbers Michael finds in his pocket , and as a crazy night out they all have dinner at the Ritz . |
| 16 | Ed Behr says , ‘ You had a lot of people who were very young and very inexperienced , who showed up with a couple of cameras and there they were . |
| 17 | When she stopped her feeble battering I took her some tea topped up with a couple of powdered sleeping pills . |
| 18 | Strach usually comes up with a couple of good uns . |
| 19 | They bought the potatoes and they put them into this machine to mix them up with a couple of pails of water and then they drained all the taters off and left the milk that was left and used that for the baking . |
| 20 | In those circumstances , vitamin and mineral deficiencies do not crop up in a couple of weeks . |
| 21 | Deciding on quantities of food can be difficult but following the old and well tried method of restricting the quantity to an amount which will be snapped up in a couple of minutes works very well . |
| 22 | Most of the problems will clear up in a couple of days , and your muscles will be back to normal within three to four weeks . |
| 23 | It 'll clear up in a couple of days . |
| 24 | We 'll take more of your calls later , but coming up in a couple of minutes all the top action from the Scottish League . |
| 25 | Yeah but I filled it , I 've botched it up in a couple of places but that 's beside the point , it does n't matter . |
| 26 | But anyway we had this one projector which I had winkled out of this friend of mine , and we stuck it up on a couple of stools and hung some sheets up behind the corner of the room which served as a stage , and with some incense burning in the corner an atmosphere was created . |
| 27 | Some people prefer to hold the script ; others like to read off a lectern , which can be simply a tray propped up on a couple of books . |
| 28 | I just wanted to erm pick up on a couple of points that er people have made in the course of a and responses I think to my er opening statement . |
| 29 | It 's just to pick you up on a couple of points . |
| 30 | Well , perhaps I can say pick up on a couple of points in the discussion . |