Example sentences of "with a couple [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wrap the bottom corner with a couple of layers of masking tape to prevent the scraper from cutting the device . |
| 2 | It had been some time since I had visited Ingleborough , so last summer I went back with a couple of friends to rediscover some of its hidden treasures . |
| 3 | One could argue that digital technology is n't the only way to solve a particular circuit problem ; a nifty bit of design work with a couple of op-amps plus a few Rs and Cs can replace a complex digital filter system . |
| 4 | so I got together with a couple of blokes from school ‘ Hold Your Head Up ’ by Argent was in the charts at the time We 'd play that again and again and again It was the only bass line I could play properly — because it 's so simple , it 's exactly the same all the way through . |
| 5 | He got at our chairman too and he left with a couple of the others . |
| 6 | I really like my new jacket and hat and scarf , and when we stop and chat with a couple of people from the house , they say how smart I look . |
| 7 | Some people smile when they go past and there 's this woman with a couple of kids over the other side from me , but most people just walk past like they ai n't interested . |
| 8 | ‘ About someone called Angela Morgan whom you or another F. Wilson at the DTI had lunch with a couple of weeks ago . |
| 9 | We each left the bulk of our estates to the other , with a couple of minor legacies — my old college and a couple of godchildren on my side , and her sister on hers . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Then , if we 're forward enough , Jinny and Oz can go off for the day with a couple of baskets . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's where all the world knows , in his own house with a couple of armed terrorists . |
| 12 | I had our fee in my pocket — enough for us to have a magnificent seafood dinner at a place just off the Gran Via , with a couple of bottles of wine . |
| 13 | I accompanied the asparagus I had for dinner ( over-cooked ) with a couple of glasses of the Sasbacher Scheibenbuck Müller Thurgau ( trocken ) . |
| 14 | Up until then , they had given Sale an object lesson in the art of taking limited chances with a couple of tries from the ubiquitous Morris , who seems a genuine open side . |
| 15 | If your rafters have a continuous cross-member on the underside , with a couple of struts , or less , to the centre of the loft , then you will most likely have a traditional rafter-and-purlin type construction , which is the most straightforward to convert . |
| 16 | Nightlife centres around the bars and restaurants , with a couple of discos at the Sporthotel and Post Hotel . |
| 17 | John was out at the dog racing with a couple of his pals . |
| 18 | He 's run into a spot of trouble with a couple of the older boys , if you ask me . ’ |
| 19 | In May 1964 I travelled by coach with a couple of willing colleagues and a score or more of sixth-formers to spend a week reading , arguing , and welcoming visitors to a refreshing house on the Gower Peninsular in Wales . |
| 20 | I started skating with a couple of guys called Sam and Luke who had skated for a while in London . |
| 21 | This point can best be illustrated with a couple of size-frequency graphs . |
| 22 | Rico came in with a couple of white towels , which he threw on the table . |
| 23 | We also know that there are over 3,000 centenarians now in Great Britain , compared with a couple of hundred or so in 1950 . |
| 24 | Casting into the gap between the willows would have been difficult but I would have taken a bigger net of fish , with a couple of sizeable ones maybe , for I could have hauled each fish out of the swim immediately it was hooked and kept disturbance down to a minimum . |
| 25 | Henry and Jimmy went off on a 48 hour pass with a couple of nurses they had met at a dance in Cambridge , so , feeling decidedly sour , Rosemary and I went into Cambridge on our own on Christmas Eve . |
| 26 | The most popular story told by the regulars to casual strangers , concerned a very large Swedish seaman who had visited the Blue Boar with a couple of shipmates one evening before the war . |
| 27 | Even a 25-year-old male with a couple of speeding convictions leaving the car on the street in a high-risk area can expect to pay only £424 per year , so long as he has a five-year no-claims bonus . |
| 28 | I was playing guitar in a group which I ran for a while , and then had some success with a couple of singles . |
| 29 | A gorilla in a Canadian zoo is moving in with a couple of bachelors in Texas . |
| 30 | In one frame he is pictured with a couple of magazines — Matrons In Leather and A Guide To Knickers And Spanking . |