Example sentences of "could [vb infin] a couple " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps we could make a couple of trips on match days .
2 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
3 And you could inherit a couple of million and go to Oxford .
4 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 .
5 I 'd be happier still if we could land a couple of efficient centre backs .
6 No , no , no , we get , they could do a couple of duff hands and we could do
7 I could do a couple of tapes worth of slang words that they 've never heard of before .
8 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 .
9 ‘ I could ring a couple of people , or go and see them , about trying to find you-know-who , but … ’
10 Sarah 's house was at the other end of it and I could see a couple of cars parked outside what I was sure was their home .
11 In the deck well I could see a couple of girls and two men in bathing suits .
12 She could see a couple of the other models standing near the buffet table , laughing as they accepted glasses of champagne from attentive gentlemen .
13 A neglected window frame can reach the point of no return , but it could gain a couple of years ' reprieve by the clever use of a wood repair system .
14 The following morning I worked as usual and then asked Kathleen if I could have a couple of days off .
15 ‘ I could have a couple of hours free tomorrow .
16 ‘ There are times when I wish she could have a couple of years off to bring up her children , be at home with them , and not worry about anything else apart from them and her husband .
17 While Martin Pipe could have a couple of Lingfield winners in Celcius and Lonely Reef , his regular jockey , Peter Scudamore , has been claimed by Charlie Brooks , who hopes to have a double at Uttoxeter with Espy and Roscoe Harvey .
18 ‘ Completing your dog-training course could take a couple of months but it could also take a couple of years because of the waiting period . ’
19 And er your parents or your mother or your father would get up very early that morning to light the copper , so that the water would be hot to start boiling , it would probably take , it could take a couple of hours to sort of re really heat a copper full of hot water .
20 You know a fairly long stack could take a couple of days .
21 A spokesman agreed yesterday that it could take a couple of months for dealers to clear stocks of Cavaliers .
22 Lady Errol intervened through her brother-in-law , informing Johnson , in the hyperbole of hospitality , that she would never allow him to enter Slains again if he left now , and , with the daylight of the long summer evening available , she provided her coachman so that the travellers could view a couple of local geological curiosities , the Buller of Buchan and the rock of Dunbui .
23 I could put a couple of these in !
24 You could raise a couple of dozen , either by culling , or leaving the remainder with the parents for recycling , unless you can get a 36″ tank .
25 He could get a couple of hamburgers and a glass of beer at the airport , then catch the evening flight to Brussels .
26 So we could get a couple for here
27 We could get a couple of dozen now , I ai n't had a dozen yet !
28 I could get a couple .
29 You could ask a couple of other kids out there . ’
30 When I moved to secondary school , the PE master used to encourage me in my running and , when he saw I had some potential , he took me down the North London AC and made me a member there so I could train a couple of times a week .
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