Example sentences of "[art] couple [prep] [noun] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | stop worrying about you know , losing any try and put a couple of pounds on if you ca n't then come to us and we 'll find out what 's wrong |
| 2 | As to what he 'd been doing , there had been a couple of incidents down by the river , which on top of the morning 's ordeal , had about finished him . |
| 3 | I mean erm , I do n't know the height of this room , but erm , I could not begin to guess in metres , but I would think , you know , a door is six foot six , traditionally in height , add a couple of feet on , it 's , you know . |
| 4 | There were a couple of queues out into the street for toiletries . |
| 5 | just gone a couple of minutes over , let's go and . |
| 6 | that 's disgraceful that yeah and so that was from erm Street down to the and down the back so it would n't take , did n't take him a couple of minutes down to the mission |
| 7 | Him and a couple of others out of the same mould . |
| 8 | Heating the water , well it heated if you 'd the fire on it heated the water and then you 'd take a couple of buckets out into the bath , plug a couple of buckets in . |
| 9 | Heating the water , well it heated if you 'd the fire on it heated the water and then you 'd take a couple of buckets out into the bath , plug a couple of buckets in . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He lifted a couple of mugs down from the shelf . |
| 13 | But one happened to be free for a couple of hours along with the picture editor who cut Nicola 's last report . |
| 14 | He 's very good and he 'll probably do it for nothing if he can get a couple of hours off . ’ |
| 15 | The following Saturday morning I asked Granpa for a couple of hours off . |
| 16 | I was going to ask for a couple of hours off and then he says , oh do n't bother ! |
| 17 | I had met her a couple of times back in the world , but only at Dreamer functions . |
| 18 | He dug a couple of notes out of his pocket and thrust them at her . |
| 19 | It was a long time , and a lot of travelling and enforced detours , before I caught up with your family , a couple of generations back . |
| 20 | Place it right on the edge so that the next step below the bottom is at least a couple of stories down , because even moderately sloping sections of a mountain goat cliff may have forbidding dropoffs at the base . |
| 21 | Can you bring a couple of ashtrays in when you come in ? |
| 22 | David had a couple of records out at the time and he sang all his songs in the show that we did . |
| 23 | The Immigration people were being very nice about it , but with the stringent new visa regulations for Indians and Tamils they could not let a couple of whites in without ceremony . |
| 24 | Oh take it off and he would stick a couple of nails in . |
| 25 | One of the tabloids got a couple of columns out of it — Teen Lovers ' Nude Death Ride on Dizzy 's Yacht but mostly the papers left it alone . |
| 26 | I sorted out old toys into boxes , got a few rolls of carpet and wallpaper back into their places from where they 'd fallen , pinned a couple of maps back on to the sloping wooden under-roof , cleared away some of the tools and bits and pieces that I 'd used to repair the Factory , and loaded the various sections of the Factory that needed to be loaded . |
| 27 | ‘ It was hard to believe the change you could see by moving just a couple of kilometres out of West Germany , one of the richest countries in the world . ’ |
| 28 | Remembering that a couple of kilometres back we had seen a huge moose lumbering across the road , I peered fearfully through a slit in my tent to see this massive reindeer with bloodshot eyes and antlers that appeared to be three metres across . |
| 29 | Did , even with the few times my parents have gone away , I 've never held parties , I may of had a couple of mates round just to let them kip over or something , come back I 've never , ever held a party , I would n't , I respect them , well I mean I would n't respect them make , every er penny they earned in the last fifteen years gone into that house , they 've had one holiday in that time and erm , gorgeous house , no its a lovely house , full of nice stuff as well , I , I , I would n't dare have a party |
| 30 | ‘ There 's a Church of Scotland canteen a couple of blocks down . ’ |