Example sentences of "couple [prep] [noun] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | And some of it 's gone up alright , but he put a couple of strips up last night and it all bubbled and then he I heard him this morning shwooh ! |
| 2 | Okay then erm I guess that 's your couple of minutes up . |
| 3 | I tell you what I was quite disappointed as that , there was no , did n't seem to be a couple of stair up in the box office either the Lyceum I could see or there 's not that there 's |
| 4 | The tale goes that a little while back , IBM Corp was using street names , reportedly from the Palo Alto town map , as its product code names — Sierra , Summit perhaps — and had been carefully working up the map , so that all you had to do to put a top IBMer into a real flap was to pick a name from the map a couple of streets up from the most recent one you 'd heard of and ask how that product was coming along . |
| 5 | The tale goes that a little while back , IBM Corp was using street names , reportedly from the Palo Alto town map , as its product code names — Sierra , Summit perhaps — and had been carefully working up the map , so that all you had to do to put a top IBMer into a real flap was to pick a name from the map a couple of streets up from the most recent one you 'd heard of and ask how that product was coming along . |
| 6 | Sandy would say to Julian : ‘ Oh , girl , your patio 's gorgeous , shove a couple of creepers up by our trellis and we 'll have this place going . ’ |
| 7 | One of my friends ( 'I' ) who just stays a couple of doors up from me has got a very different attitude towards sex . |
| 8 | That 's just couple of junctions up from Nottingham . |
| 9 | WordPerfect for Windows Power Macros is one of those weighty ( 500+ pages ) books/manuals and although designed for the ‘ couple of steps up from a basic knowledge ’ reader , I did n't find it got me into the harder bits gently . |
| 10 | I only wanted a couple of laps up round there |
| 11 | Yes , yes , I 've been to se I 've a couple of people up to sort of promise a hand |
| 12 | We 'll have to take a couple of gifts up for them . |