Example sentences of "have had a couple [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently there 'd been this girl , Spanish or Portuguese I think , and Ollie had been giving her private lessons at his flat , and he thought she fancied him , and he 'd had a couple of Special Brews at the time and thought she was just shy , and then he tried kissing her , and it 's the old , old , sordid story , is n't it ? |
| 2 | She 'd had a couple of little fumbling and innocuous affairs , nothing serious , and she never dared breathe a word to Georg . |
| 3 | Erm we 've had a couple of flat fires . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | I 've had a couple of stormy sessions with the old rascal trying to keep him on the beam . ’ |
| 7 | Sotheby 's had a couple of rare Currier and Ives lithographs : bidding by phone for the very rare ‘ The life of a hunter . |