Example sentences of "couple [prep] [noun] and the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My seven-year-old daughter , Victoria , recently lost a couple of teeth and the tooth fairy dutifully paid a visit . |
| 2 | How it happened we do n't know but the flight-recorder said it only took a couple of minutes and the navigator confirmed this . |
| 3 | I rang the School of Tropical Medicine in London and told them I 'd picked up a botfly , and they said ‘ very exciting ’ and quoted me some home cures : ‘ Keep a raw steak over the hole for a couple of hours and the larva will burrow to the surface to breathe and then you can take the steak away … ‘ |
| 4 | In the end she found a couple of blankets and the alarm clock and curled up regardless . |
| 5 | He got away at the cost of a couple of buttons and the boxer turned his attention to one of the ladies . |
| 6 | However , it has not officially been published for the last couple of years and the figures shown for 1986/87 are unofficial ones culled from the published NHS annual accounts ( DHSS , 1988 ) . |
| 7 | Also , give it a couple of years and the market will see just three big players on the market — Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG , IBM and Unisys . |
| 8 | And sometimes Madame would just decide that we all needed a change and there 'd be paint ordered and people would come in during the day and work for a couple of days and the whole place would be done out for a party or a festival . |
| 9 | Dr ‘ Scott ’ You come to a house where something awful has happened and there 's the mother and a couple of daughters and the neighbour from next door and they 're in a terrible state . |
| 10 | I was there a couple of weeks and the record business went bust and she had to close down . |
| 11 | Pam , 63 , said : ‘ They used to come every summer for a couple of weeks and the rest of the year they would stay for the odd week . |
| 12 | Each judge will submit a completed list of nominations over the next couple of weeks and the eventual winners will be presented with their awards at a special ceremony early in the new year . |
| 13 | Just imagine if Deano started scoring a couple of goals and the defence tightened up just a fraction more . |