Example sentences of "[prep] a couple [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I need you to cover me fer a couple of hours at th'most . |
| 2 | After a couple of moments of deep breathing , the giddiness receded . |
| 3 | After a couple of glasses of champagne and a hamburger , and under the influence of my friends ' euphoria , I cheered up . |
| 4 | Mind you few customers are likely to care what they 're eating after a couple of glasses of Mulsum : Salute . |
| 5 | Funnily enough , I felt better after a couple of pints at a pub in Maida Vale ; you know , the trendy one among Guardian readers which has the really stupid long name and brews its own beer in the cellar . |
| 6 | After a couple of decades of comparative calm , the names of Armstrong and Elliot began to reappear in familiar practices . |
| 7 | After a couple of hours of observing in these conditions , shapes and objects in front of me appeared to move , if I stared at them for too long . |
| 8 | I could see Dad was worried so after a couple of hours of hanging about I offered to return to Mary 's . |
| 9 | With the main outage completed and the holiday season pressure easing , TOP Team activity is gathering momentum at Torness after a couple of months in the doldrums , writes Executive Support Manager Mervyn Jenkins . |
| 10 | The relay will usually free up after a couple of doses of light oil in this manner . |
| 11 | After a couple of weeks with her sisters , I heard the false note not just in her accent , but in her voice as well . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In contrast to the management of a couple with problems in their relationship , different therapeutic needs are posed by the patient who has suffered the break-up of a relationship . |
| 14 | There is the option of a couple of hours for shopping in Kidderminster , or a short talk on the construction and restoration of railway goods vehicles . |
| 15 | From Gmünd eastwards to Horn and south to Krems was only a matter of a couple of hours through some lovely , fertile valleys , brilliantly green in their spring foliage . |
| 16 | I feel like a worker in Stalinist Russia denouncing his comrades but I say , ‘ Well , I thought of a couple of friends of mine … ’ |
| 17 | From where I 'm sitting ( in a Paris café as it happens , pal , limbering up for the days 500cl — I mean 500 word slog ) , a rest in that sense would take the form of a couple of shifts in a Bolivian tin mine — and Club Med do n't fly there . |
| 18 | Even with the other symptoms , the loss of a couple of pounds in a week seemed fine . |
| 19 | So what I 'd like you to do if you just turn to page one sort of a couple of pages in the first one that 's numbered . |
| 20 | Forces conspire to push you onto the arête itself at the point where the overlap is reached , although good protection can be arranged to ease the passage of a couple of moves up the gently overhanging right wall of the buttress . |
| 21 | So , taking account of the polonium , local people relying mainly on local milk , meat and vegetables could expect doses over a period of a couple of years of about 4 to 15 rems ; more incidentally , than people at Hiroshima within 2 km of the bomb . |
| 22 | It did occur because the depression was so er , was so long erm , but by and large , farmers do n't go out of , do n't cease erm , production just because of a couple of years of er , poor harvests or low , low prices . |
| 23 | And after a matter of a couple of years of use , er the service had already been curtailed , from nine trains down to five per day , erm and er shortly the passenger service was completely withdrawn . |
| 24 | I knew she had no morals to speak of and would go out with anyone who had the price of a couple of drinks on him and was n't too fussy about where he spent the night , and I thought these facts would surely be obvious to any casual passer-by . |
| 25 | You can always look back and say " What if " , but we must remember that we got ourselves out of a couple of scrapes on last two days and for a time we looked absolutely terrible , but we turned it around and could have won . |
| 26 | It was just why I 'm I mean wi the last meeting we had , took me sort of three pages to write what we 've got to do and each item that we 've got to do is sort of a couple of sheets of A four . |
| 27 | As an admission that , yes , they did go into a bit of a decline , the band has even included re-recorded versions of a couple of songs from their last album , No Place Like Home , a record whose only purpose appears to have been ‘ to keep things ticking over ’ . |
| 28 | Have you any idea of the cost of running that place , compared to the cost of a couple of rooms in a nursing home ? ’ |
| 29 | So why do n't we both get back to work now , instead of nattering on like a couple of housewives over the garden fence ? ’ |
| 30 | I 'm not the most diplomatic man in the world , and we began a slanging match like a couple of kids from the ghetto . ’ |