Example sentences of "couple [prep] [noun pl] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember a couple of scenes when David would just go on and on asking me what I was doing with Michael , ’ she says . |
| 2 | A couple of feet more water , and he 'd have gone on being carried along near the bottom , and safely out of sight . |
| 3 | Leeds fortunately got their act together and started passing the ball around and a couple of minutes later Forrester volleyed in from ten yards after good work on the right by Dave White . |
| 4 | A couple of minutes later Chatterton zimmered into the room . |
| 5 | A couple of hours later Masha , placated , was standing with us in the workroom of Sigmund Freud in Hampstead . |
| 6 | In fact we 've had a couple of meetings recently Kevin with , with erm the employment office looking at , at their changing role |
| 7 | Bassett adds : ‘ There have been opportunities over the past couple of years where clubs have shown an interest in me . |
| 8 | If the girls do not appear to have an even average awareness of culture — a friend said that a couple of years ago Zsuzsa had never heard of |
| 9 | A couple of years ago Kostya Anokhin and I therefore invented an alternative procedure , one that would not involve the chicks in any type of aversive situation at all — ; even that of tasting a bitter bead . |
| 10 | I 'd been banging up dikes for a couple of years when smack came on the scene and I just sort of carried on as I had been doing , y'know , with the smack instead of the dike . |
| 11 | The tower was converted to a house around the turn of the century and has been lived in ever since apart from a couple of years when architects used it as offices . |
| 12 | A couple of years earlier Wayne had come into conflict with director John Huston when they made The Barbarian and the Geisha in 1957 . |
| 13 | When General Secretary Nguyen Van Linh visited Moscow a couple of months later Gorbachev praised Indo-Chinese efforts to create such a zone . |
| 14 | Erm I have n't been bothered with it for a couple of months now Doctor , and |
| 15 | Erm I would like to say a few words about the Fire and Rescue Service , er the Fire Cover Review Panel er which rests erm with couple of months before Christmas er it 's first meeting , received a report from the Chief Officer that in restructuring the Fire Service to get better use out of it to er spread the cuts could find savings of up to nine hundred thousand pounds in that process and they are friends in the Labour , Liberal Democrat groups have simply taken the good aspects of that the plus side of it and rejected the side what faces the side anyway . |
| 16 | With a little cry of distress she turned to flee from the room , but got no further than a couple of steps when Luke caught her . |
| 17 | ‘ Do n't you dare ! ’ she squealed , trying to push him off the edge of the sun-lounger and into the swimming-pool , which was how the accident yesterday had happened , fooling around by the poolside like a couple of kids when Ruth had slipped on a supposedly non-slip surface and wrenched her ankle . |
| 18 | There had been a further recent development ; only a couple of days ago Herr Hamnett 's brother , another agreeable young gentleman , had turned up and collected his entire belongings . |
| 19 | And a couple of days ago Fergus had suggested they go for a longer hike , up into the trackless hills where the Landy could n't reach . |
| 20 | Alice stood marvelling at this thought : that only a couple of days ago Mary Williams had seemed to hold her own fate Alice 's — in her hands ; and now Alice had difficulty in even remembering her status . |
| 21 | Advertising as well funnily enough but er this is n't there 's one that er a couple of days ago Marketing which is a Cumbernauld ex-company |
| 22 | Mm , I can do it , on a couple of days when Tel 's at work , you sit in a box , on a chair |
| 23 | Also a couple of days later Olsen himself once again spoke upon the matter — and the headline was something like ‘ Get a new club , Frank ’ . |
| 24 | And just a couple of days later shares are fluctuating |
| 25 | A couple of days later Maureen whispered to him that she and Chris were going to meet as before and just take every opportunity to be together . |
| 26 | A couple of days later Jeannie went to the captain . |
| 27 | For a couple of days now Luke had trailed her round the station , sat in her office , watched her through the glass partition of the control-room as she 'd done her interviews : everywhere she had turned , he 'd been there , and she could n't take much more . |
| 28 | Just a couple of weeks ago Emerson was down the in the dumps and considering pulling out of the Maxol series . |
| 29 | It 's similar to a call we had erm a couple of weeks ago Nelly , about about er , people being pestered with er with with children like this . |
| 30 | At CASE World in Boston a couple of weeks ago week , DEC , Silicon Graphics Inc and SunSoft Inc , combined to propose a CASE tool integration standard so developers can integrate and deploy their CASE tools across different CASE environments . |