Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [art] couple " in BNC.
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| 31 | If it 'll make you happy , I 'll take a couple of WAAFs out … officers . ’ |
| 32 | I 'll take I 'll take a couple for the moment . |
| 33 | I 'm going to change subjects now , but if you want to come back to the Gulf , do feel free , the lines are open on three double one , one double one , but I in the meantime we 'll take a couple of calls on different subjects erm let's go to June from Shillingford , hello June . |
| 34 | They will need to sustain their effort at a much greater level in the replay , though — and you can be sure that Monaghan might have a couple more tricks up their sleeve . |
| 35 | so I might have a couple of days off and then I can be with Laddie and take him for walks and everything |
| 36 | She felt tired and wondered if she might manage a couple of hours ' sleep before the train reached London . |
| 37 | I thought someone might get a couple of black eyes or something . |
| 38 | Then I might get a couple of little soaps or something . |
| 39 | Listen , you sit down , I 'll get a couple of coffees and we 'll have a chat , OK ? ’ |
| 40 | Better get it over with , her mind urges her exhausted body , then at least you 'll get a couple of hours sleep before dawn . |
| 41 | I think I 'll get a couple of hours ’ sleep . ’ |
| 42 | Right , I 'll get a couple and we 'll have them with mashed cream potatoes . |
| 43 | I 'll get a couple . |
| 44 | Erm , amateur societies just ca n't exist without loyal officers and those officers have shown their loyalty by s standing again and we know the special circumstances appertaining to the , which brings us to the nitty- gritty now erm you said we have , Tracy , five erm perhaps you 'd better read those names out for us and then I think the best thing to do is to have a closed vote , where we give you all a piece of paper on which you state your nomination folded up so nobody else can see we 'll put them in a bag and then we 'll appoint a couple of to count the vote so that we do not the chairman . |
| 45 | No , the ones at the front of the store were for seventy P and they were marked firmed tomatoes , the others at the back were sixty P and they did n't say firm on them so I thought well , firm probably means hard , I 'll get the , get the others , so I 'll skinned a couple of them for tea |
| 46 | That 's one reason we print accident reports , and you 'll find a couple of thought-provoking ones in this issue . |
| 47 | You 'll find a couple of days there most therapeutic . ’ |
| 48 | ‘ As you intend staying a little while , ’ Merrill said bluntly , ‘ you 'll find a couple of ancient deck-chairs in that store … ’ |
| 49 | ‘ Often they 'll kill a couple of lambs , take one at the time and leave one to be picked up later , ’ he explained . |
| 50 | I still had time to kill , so I thought I 'd make a couple of ‘ phone calls and that meant employing the Middleditch gambit . |
| 51 | Perhaps we could make a couple of trips on match days . |
| 52 | er Chairman thank you for inviting me to come erm here today , er particularly as Mrs who 's the other member of erm , affected by the lorry ban on the A ten eighty eight it 's unfortunate unable to come , erm and thank you for including me in the er consultation process that you 're planning with Norfolk County Council , er Chairman obviously I wish to support this , but just erm if I could make a couple of observations on your paper , erm firstly particular relation to the discussion we just had about Brandon , erm , I am aware Mr Chairman you 've just described the er highways people in Norfolk as very reasonable , but I think that members will see particular if they look at problems like four point one that we do have to handle er working relationships with some care and I would want to express regret while I wo n't be less impolite than that , but Norfolk have not even seen fit to put up signs erm warning of the lorry ban erm in Thetford , erm , which shows er not exactly the spirit of co-operation , I hope we 're going to be able to achieve in the consultations about Brandon and I thought |
| 53 | So if I take one down today no I 'd need a couple would n't I ? |
| 54 | They were as relaxed as you 'd expect a couple of dogs to be in the midday sun in the West Indies and clearly had life exactly as they wanted it . |
| 55 | And you could inherit a couple of million and go to Oxford . |
| 56 | Murray was doubtful as to whether this would be enough ; but Heiton declared that he could send a couple of men into the Roxburgh township , to the alehouses and howffs , to spread the word that the Regent himself was in the vicinity . |
| 57 | I 'd be happier still if we could land a couple of efficient centre backs . |
| 58 | No , no , no , we get , they could do a couple of duff hands and we could do |
| 59 | I could do a couple of tapes worth of slang words that they 've never heard of before . |
| 60 | The defending solicitor tried to fault her on identification but she described the car as having a metallic paint job , wide wheels and a number of triangular stickers in the rear window ; she also thought that she could remember a couple of fluffy dice hanging from the rear-view mirror , and she gave the first three letters of the registration number . |