Example sentences of "a couple [prep] [pos pn] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've seen a couple of their machines briefly , as they passed through the office on their way for testing , they look like competent machines . |
| 2 | I like a couple of their songs How about Depeche Mode , have you ever heard of them ? |
| 3 | After Downes had been driven away , Morse and Lewis walked back to their own car , where Morse gave urgent instructions to the forensic lab to sent a couple of their whizz-kids over to the railway station — immediately ! — and to Kidlington HQ to see that a breakdown van would be available in about an hour 's time to ferry away a certain Metro . |
| 4 | Perhaps he had hit a patch of false going which caused him to lose his action , or had a fleeting muscular spasm which lost him the use of his hind legs — something like Bryan Marshall had reported after a couple of his races earlier in the season . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Lepine was not cremated for a few days yet , until after the despatch of a couple of his victims also being tended to at the Côte-Des-Neiges cemetery , opposite the mountain , alongside the University of Montreal , where Marc Lepine joined his victims in the silence at the centre . |
| 7 | And send a couple of your boys up here to keep a lookout . |
| 8 | ‘ I brought a couple of your cards along in my purse , ’ she said . |