Example sentences of "it [prep] a couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've swapped it for a couple of weeks . |
| 2 | I put a big crust on the hook , dip it for a couple of seconds at the edge of the river to give it casting weight , and then swing it into the current . |
| 3 | Her mum says we 'd be welcome to rent it for a couple of weeks . |
| 4 | ‘ I use it for a couple of songs every night , but because I do n't use effects — I just plug into an amp — I always use different guitars to get different tones . |
| 5 | They 're ideal if you just want to lose it for a couple of hours , but try not to get hooked . |
| 6 | When he left school , he forgot entirely about the whole business , forgot about it for a couple of decades , forgot until this thin , tired fellow , looking so very much like his old school chaplain , came and hovered in the drive , the epitome , it seemed to Patrick , of the doubting kind of modern Anglican clergyman . |
| 7 | Erm I have n't been bothered with it for a couple of months now Doctor , and |
| 8 | and erm she 's had it for a couple of days but we thought she was getting over it this morning . |
| 9 | But as I say he 's never done any of it for a couple of days . |
| 10 | She stared at it for a couple of minutes , then , with a prolonged sigh , began to take them out and put them back into the cupboards and drawers . |
| 11 | And er we cast during the dark days of the war , when toys were n't available , we a few older blokes er apprentices used to I remember being at it for a couple of hard week we had a hard week , well evening during the evenings anyway . |
| 12 | There 's a spitball course going through now , you 'll join it for a couple of days . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I can hardly wait , ’ he said drily , ‘ but perhaps we could leave it for a couple of years ? ’ |
| 14 | Well no , you have to scarify it and then you have to you have to carry on the work , you ca n't sort of do it and then think , ooh I 'll leave it for a couple of months . |
| 15 | And then when I get to school , I do , I have to pour all the water into the tank , and leave it for a couple of hours and at break time put the fish into the into the mix water |
| 16 | It wo n't be like it for a couple of years . |
| 17 | four hundred and thirty quid , he said bloody hell , so what I said to him is , I know you 're gon na need a car , what I 'll do is er , I 'll get to work , I 'll put it , I 'll bring the car , you bring the car in beginning of the month , next month , right , said I wo n't be able to guarantee that I 'll get it done in a week cos I 've got other work booked in , but I 'll have it in here which means I 'll be able to do work to your car , right , and it 's better me being able to do that , then it , it 's sitting out outside your house and nobody touching it for a couple of weeks , now , I might have it for a couple of weeks , see and I 'll be able to do it in my own leisurely time then |
| 18 | four hundred and thirty quid , he said bloody hell , so what I said to him is , I know you 're gon na need a car , what I 'll do is er , I 'll get to work , I 'll put it , I 'll bring the car , you bring the car in beginning of the month , next month , right , said I wo n't be able to guarantee that I 'll get it done in a week cos I 've got other work booked in , but I 'll have it in here which means I 'll be able to do work to your car , right , and it 's better me being able to do that , then it , it 's sitting out outside your house and nobody touching it for a couple of weeks , now , I might have it for a couple of weeks , see and I 'll be able to do it in my own leisurely time then |
| 19 | And of course a lot of the engineering was on textile machinery and er I did n't , I just would n't go back to it after I 'd been at it about a couple of years . |
| 20 | I had to stop using it after a couple of days . ’ |
| 21 | I 've got round it with a couple of amplifiers that I 've built myself ; they 're very reliable and they both sound the same . |
| 22 | I already knew that the forebrain roof of the chick was particularly rich in the receptor , and the assay method was fast enough for me to measure it in a couple of hundred brain samples during a single twelve-hour day ( although , inevitably , it took several subsequent days to analyse and calculate all the results ) . |
| 23 | If you wanted to be an instructor and you were serious about gliding , you could probably achieve it in a couple of years . |
| 24 | but then again there , but you , you fire off the blank , that 's what triggers the laser sometimes if there 's been a lot of , we did , we did it in a couple of time see the old laser go , cor , its got very think red beam , its not like you see these big flashing great big bits of light like on Star Wars and stuff , well its not , its not suppose to hurt you its a very thin piercing beam , its well impressive . |
| 25 | It would n't be , I would n't say oh no you ca n't have it , but I 'd say well you 'll receive it in a couple of days time and if they said oh well that 's not good enough , then fair enough , you , you know . |
| 26 | and that if we want to borrow it in a couple weeks time |
| 27 | If you do n't get to the end of it within a couple of days , come to me and I 'm sure I 've got somewhere on my old Mac . |
| 28 | I took it to a couple of shops who just were n't interested and then to Macaris who seemed to be interested in buying it but who were being a bit funny about it to me . |
| 29 | Erm , tell me if I 'm repeating it , because I have said it to a couple of other groups I know , especially the Wednesday group . |
| 30 | You know , you pushed it on a couple of minutes to show somebody . |