Example sentences of "a couple of [noun] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Continue to fry with the onion for a couple of minutes until it begins to absorb the oil . |
| 2 | so will there be a game and if so where and shall i pack my football shoes in my luggage — im leaving home ( over here in even colder ( -5 C ) norway ) ) in just a couple of hours so it would have been nice to know . |
| 3 | People only see the good-for-nothing sons who hang around bars getting into fights and pushing drugs ; they do n't see the real shepherd , the man who spends almost all of his life alone , spends his days making the cheeses they take for granted and his nights sleeping sometimes only for a couple of hours because it 's lambing time . ’ |
| 4 | Official figures are not available on the number of pickets injured , but there were at least a couple of fatalities and it is the opinion of some observers that , in the major conflicts of the dispute , casualties amongst the pickets greatly exceeded those of the police ( Wallington , 1985 : 149 ) . |
| 5 | At the beginning of the 1980 's a typeface would have cost around $4,500 and you would probably have had to wait a couple of weeks while it was digitised from some master copy . |
| 6 | And then it was the cu , we 'd payed that and then a couple of weeks after it was the phone and then it was the gas ! |
| 7 | That lasted for a couple of weeks and it was a very scary moment — January or February of 1988 . |
| 8 | I suspect now that you know I mean I they might still to move given to one or two of my family members , but basically I could more openly say you know that in fact I suppose my view in Britain but not in Australia but my view in Britain is okay , the Royal Family could continue to exist they must A pay taxes B I do n't genuflect to any of them and C we 've got ta put them in perspective they 're in which is they 're a tourist attraction erm you know but I and I can make those comments which would be met by a lot of Britons with hostility , people who would totally disagree with me and say well they are the Royals and you know bow , bow , bow , but others would agree with me and that is something that has changed over the last three decades it really has , it 's changed during , during my absence in Australia , it is something you know that I came back to and I mean I kept , I 've been back about three or four weeks and there 's a pro I mean there 's some delightful radio programmes here comedy , political comedy shows and there was one show I listened to and I had been back a couple of weeks and it was about erm the Queen had a P R issue and she had to sort of do something about it , so she decided they 'd have a public execution of Edward and they described Edward was a cream puff and they the Queen and and er Andrew and everybody else was on the balcony at er Buck House and the crowds are cheering and the rolled and the the execution . |
| 9 | Just give it a couple of weeks and it 'll look just like his haircut ! |
| 10 | Everybody , now you 've also got to accept the high percentage of having nay got a clue , eh what they 're doing , even after a week or a couple of weeks and it should n't er be here , but if you get somebody , nice er Michelle or Cathy , eh , or eh Adel |
| 11 | Cos she 'd been wanting to do Aladdin for a couple of years but it was on at The Playhouse |
| 12 | Now that has come to pass , I think everyone is gearing back down and it will be down for a couple of years before it goes back up ; it just seems to go back and forth . |
| 13 | Barry had also composed the music for The Knack , and raised the idea for Billy with producer Peter Witt over lunch a couple of years before it materialized . |
| 14 | It had been a couple of days before it dawned on him : they were the full-size versions of the houses and station buildings he and his father had made up for their never-quite-finished model railway layout . |
| 15 | I was only back a couple of days and it started again . |
| 16 | They 're they 're the whatsername So I 'm sending a couple of pound until it 's paid up . |
| 17 | ‘ Completing your dog-training course could take a couple of months but it could also take a couple of years because of the waiting period . ’ |
| 18 | It 'll be finished in a couple of months and it 'll be pretty tricky , too . |