Example sentences of "[vb past] a couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | Graham picked up his holdalls and walked away to the cafeteria , where he changed a couple of Swiss francs into loose change then made a call on one of the public telephones , positioning himself in such a way so he could study the two men as he described them to Philpott . |
| 2 | Developer conferences these days seem to harbour a deep-seated resentment of Microsoft and , unfortunately , Allchin is not the most charismatic senior executive that Microsoft could have fielded — frankly he killed himself by an overlong demo ( and let us not forget that Gates himself is probably the only competitor to Jobs ’ title of demo king ) that crashed a couple of times . |
| 3 | Although it took a while and I crashed a couple of times , once I even knocked a dam down with a kite . |
| 4 | ‘ John Ashenden phoned a couple of hours ago . ’ |
| 5 | In the end she found a couple of blankets and the alarm clock and curled up regardless . |
| 6 | ‘ Only I found a couple of freshly killed rabbits and a nice pair of boots under a bush on the bank early this morning . |
| 7 | With an irritability caused as much by her slimming diet as by the lack of a box , she almost stamped down the stairs into the basement , which was comfortingly warm , and found a couple of cardboard boxes . |
| 8 | They landed the King Air at Sir William Robert 's strip there and found a couple of former Irish Air Corps two-seaters and one former Belgian Air Force Mk XIV all in a million bits . |
| 9 | A few reference books were collected from the library , from people 's own shelves ; somebody found a couple of Leicester guide books in a Yorkshire second-hand shop . |
| 10 | They gave me 26 quid this week but I rummaged through the shed and found a couple of things to stick in as prizes . |
| 11 | The studio thinks Vic 's a genius and gave him as much as they could until the insurance boys dug their heels in over big-name leads falling out of a canoe and then they went down the list and found a couple of guys the industry could afford to lose . |
| 12 | Then a British colleague at the Zoological station for this and next academic year lent me another four , and I found a couple on our shelves that I had not read before , so was well away . |
| 13 | Well I found a couple of possible useful quotes of the highway code . |
| 14 | adult life was spent in South Africa , and erm I found a couple of years ago two books written by a remarkable while English-speaking South African called Donald Woods , who was a newspaper editor , who befriended and then championed a remarkable young black South African called Steve Beeko , who was killed in police detention . |
| 15 | Julie , who will be familiar to viewers of Brookside , September Song , Luv , Taggart and A Word in Your Era , moved a couple of miles outside Bures last summer after living in Monks Eleigh for five years . |
| 16 | She moved a couple of the sheets to make way for the saucers . |
| 17 | Dad , warming to his role , moved a couple of steps forward , his arm still flung out in front of him . |
| 18 | We reported a couple of years back that just as leading US companies like IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co were adopting Total Quality Management with messianic zeal , the Japanese had decided that it was not good enough and had moved on to Zero-Defects Management , and the Financial Times ' Observer column offers an example of just why : it has a release that flags ‘ the first major conference on Total Quality Management for Pension Finds ’ . |
| 19 | However , the fabric caught a couple of times . |
| 20 | Finally , the voluntary mountain bike restriction for Snowdon mentioned a couple of issues ago has been agreed between the interested parties . |
| 21 | I mentioned a couple of things at the start that , er yes . |
| 22 | As i mentioned a couple of Sundays ago , the spirit is creatively active at the conception of Jesus . |
| 23 | Big Cassie mentioned a couple at me and I ca n't remember . |
| 24 | He stopped a couple of feet away . |
| 25 | She sniffled a couple of times and looked at him . |
| 26 | I slipped back into the water and swam a couple of strokes to the curtain . |
| 27 | Scouter Ruth Sellors , head of the group , from Farsley , near Leeds , said : ‘ Mick swam a couple of strokes , then went still . ’ |
| 28 | I found my feet , staggered a couple of paces and spewed undigested fried chicken over a light-coloured WV Golf . |
| 29 | He used a couple of them bits before if that 's all the same to you . |
| 30 | " I only sneezed a couple of times … but you know what mother is like , " Patrick said defensively . |