Example sentences of "[art] couple of [noun] before [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a couple of hours before I could get back to Eleanor Darcy . |
| 2 | Landing with a thud on the dirty slope , her brand new Reeboks scrabbled in the dirt a couple of times before she finally pulled herself up . |
| 3 | Can I just ask a couple of questions before we finalize before lunch . |
| 4 | She had hardly taken a couple of steps before she was surrounded by clubgoers , and was forced to swallow a quick rush of impatience , summoning up her brightest smile as she accepted their compliments . |
| 5 | By dialling 150 a couple of weeks before you move , you can arrange for the phone in your new home to be connected . |
| 6 | It takes at least a couple of seconds before I recognize the last straw . |
| 7 | Can I just say , just a couple of points before you go erm you are all fairly good at writing long answer essay questions , but you are probably not so good at writing short answer questions , right . |
| 8 | If not , he warned : ‘ It could be a couple of years before we even get into the courtroom itself and no-one can say how long the case will run . ’ |
| 9 | Ooh now that started before we took out the mortgage , about a couple of years before I think . |
| 10 | Erm I , I suppose it 'll be a couple of years before he does that but |
| 11 | I got the impression that Uncle Phil lived with Meli for quite a few years in in Brighton for a couple of years before she died . |
| 12 | Clare and Southall a couple of years before she died , age 20 . |
| 13 | Now that has come to pass , I think everyone is gearing back down and it will be down for a couple of years before it goes back up ; it just seems to go back and forth . |
| 14 | Barry had also composed the music for The Knack , and raised the idea for Billy with producer Peter Witt over lunch a couple of years before it materialized . |
| 15 | Start running down the food in your freezer and fridge , so that they can be switched off and cleaned a couple of days before you move . |
| 16 | Sykes went to Paris a couple of days before you did , and came back on the Monday . |
| 17 | Nearly two years later he told me that in each of those ten Crusades , people on the committees had said that , although everyone had agreed on certain tasks to be done , they only actually got cracking on them a couple of days before I was due back ! |
| 18 | ‘ It will take me a couple of days before I can get organised , ’ he said . |
| 19 | It had been a couple of days before it dawned on him : they were the full-size versions of the houses and station buildings he and his father had made up for their never-quite-finished model railway layout . |
| 20 | He 'd done a couple of circuits before they stopped . |
| 21 | ‘ The band had only been together a couple of months before we started recording that album , so we did n't have time to think about it too much — we just went in and did it . |
| 22 | ‘ It will be interesting to see if the system has been improved in any way , but it will take a couple of months before we really see any indication of that , ’ said one insider . |
| 23 | Surely some time should be given next week so that we can debate this issue , especially when , today , in answer to Question 4 , the Minister of State , Home Office told the hon. Member for Liverpool , Mossley Hill ( Mr. Alton ) that it would be a couple of months before we had the report from the law courts in Europe . |
| 24 | A spokeswoman for the hospital said : ‘ It will be a couple of months before we can tell if the treatment has been successful . |
| 25 | ‘ I was all set to do a solo record for Shrapnel , but a couple of months before I was due to do it , Mike Varney introduced me to Jason , who was only 16 at the time . |
| 26 | I reckon it 's gon na be a , a couple of months before I can put any carpet or anything in . |
| 27 | It was a couple of months before he felt in Daisy 's way . |
| 28 | And why had Puddephat 's wife suddenly borrowed the keys to the flat in rue Roland only a couple of months before he was murdered there ? |