Example sentences of "but [prep] a couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | The room was twice the size of their back-street Holland Park offices but for a couple of hours all comers were invited to believe that Women 's Word was on the same financial footing as its big competitors . |
| 2 | Not about everything , mind , but about a couple of things . |
| 3 | Her husband was always with us but as a couple they were difficult to dislodge without rudeness . |
| 4 | In the morning Kāli took the cattle out to graze , but after a couple of hours she came back soaked to the skin . |
| 5 | And you end up writing guitar music which sometimes is okay , but after a couple of records I 'd written enough guitar music for a while . |
| 6 | But after a couple of weeks around Cardiff and Southampton docks — where there was a similar dry-dock to the battleship dock at St Nazaire — they could each carry out almost every demolition in under 10 minutes . |
| 7 | When I eventually reached the gods I hesitated , afraid to push the door open , but after a couple of minutes I became too frightened to stand there in the dark any longer . |
| 8 | At first we just made conversation , but after a couple of drinks Reid looked at me thoughtfully , twiddling his half-empty glass , and said , ‘ There 's no reason not to tell you this , Kit , but since we 've got to work together , I 'd rather explain my mode of living before the old cats on the island — the European gossips — start telling you stories . |
| 9 | These fish tend to settle in well , feeding on daphnia , bloodworm , flake and lettuce , but after a couple of months they go off their food , become very thin and white along the bottom , swim on their heads and eventually die . |
| 10 | It might have been that way for a while , Scum argued , but after a couple of weeks the Boroughs shitkickers moved in , and the game was up . |
| 11 | James and I continued to go out and have lovely times together , but after a couple of years it slowly began to dawn on me that I was expanding . |
| 12 | It is hard to know exactly what the company were aiming at or were attempting to say , but after a couple of scenes the audience found itself tussling with one question only . |
| 13 | Whatever your opinion of ABBA 's music , you must admit they had a hell of a knack for penning a commercial tune ; the chord sequence here is fairly standard but with a couple of nice twists , with the bass playing a central role in the arrangement . |
| 14 | One must n't give in to pessimism , and it 's pointless to look too far ahead , but in a couple of years she wo n't even be legal . |
| 15 | But in a couple of days the Big Bang goes up . ’ |
| 16 | I must admit , I ca n't claim it was love at first sight , but within a couple of hours she had firmly established herself in my affections , ’ laughed Delia . |
| 17 | But within a couple of pages , it 's back to the hollow sound of random jottings . |
| 18 | Not until we have a Question Time for the Leader of the Opposition , but within a couple of months I shall be answering from the Government side of the House . |
| 19 | Erm , the executive are accepting all these motions but on a couple of them want to put in a speaker with a statement and er after twenty one will to put that statement to the C E C. I now call composite twenty abolition of Wages Councils South Western Region to move , G M B Scotland to second . |
| 20 | ‘ But over a couple of months of pilot programmes , I simply felt I had made a mistake by leaving . |