Example sentences of "couple [prep] [noun] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ice cold water made him gasp , but after swimming a couple of lengths of the plunge , he got out feeling an exhilaration beyond belief . |
| 2 | I accompanied the asparagus I had for dinner ( over-cooked ) with a couple of glasses of the Sasbacher Scheibenbuck Müller Thurgau ( trocken ) . |
| 3 | ‘ All my choices have proved ill ’ , says Frodo within a couple of pages of the start of his quest . |
| 4 | ‘ Of course , I agreed to carry his bag like a shot , and the Irish golfer gave me some very basic instruction in my duties over a couple of pints of the dark stuff from his native land . |
| 5 | To enable the miller to do this more easily the arms or stocks swept to within a couple of feet of the ground . |
| 6 | If you are heavily laden with treasure you might only manage a couple of swings of the sword before you have to rest , during which time your opponent can batter away at you ! ) |
| 7 | When the conference opened , a couple of members of the League of Empire Loyalists , one a journalist and the other a chiropodist , hired eastern bishops ' flowing robes from a theatrical costumier , walked in unchallenged , and got up to make a speech against the ‘ archterrorist ’ Makarios . |
| 8 | Two of the Kamalians only needed a couple of metres of the wire to render him helpless and under continual self-torture . |
| 9 | I was in Leeds over the weekend and had a chance to see a couple of copies of the Yorkshire Evening Post . |
| 10 | He 'd covered her over with a coat and taken her few possessions inside , and she 'd slept on ; she 'd been the same way for the last couple of hours of the journey , ever since they 'd made their final stop at a twenty-four hour garage so that he could fill the Zodiac 's tank and buy some tape for a running repair to the headlamp that he 'd broken when , lights doused to escape notice , he 'd clipped the corner of the garage block on their way out of the parking area . |
| 11 | It had been laid out some fifty years before by one of those famous Scottish golfers who had dominated golf in the first couple of decades of the century . |
| 12 | Yet , apart from these and a couple of stagings of The Tempest , choreographers have tended to present Shakespeare only in one act form , at best condensing the great poetic dramas into intense and intimate character studies at worst , turning them into a slide show of cliched vignettes . |
| 13 | At the foot of the stairs , a couple of officers of the Grand Army , whose epaulettes proclaimed them members of Davout 's staff , were talking to an ashen-faced Moreau . |
| 14 | I had to be very careful going through a couple of blobs of the Renaissance gold where the paint was at its thickest , but I was lucky and got a reasonably clean edge all round . |
| 15 | John now faces another couple of years of the same routine , as Reiver in 1994 and Left Hand Man the year after . |
| 16 | The most recent was in the early 1980s , during the first couple of years of the Thatcher government but that only lasted for 18 months . |
| 17 | One evening after she 'd completed a couple of laps of the pool she was surprised to see David Markham stroll out of the changing-rooms on to the poolside . |
| 18 | There was dark cloud to within a couple of yards of the southern horizon , below which a perfect golden background , and there was silhouetted every hill from Clent to the Sugar Loaf by Abergavenny and the Black Mountains . |
| 19 | Make suggestions for people I can go out and hassle in the first couple of days of the week . |
| 20 | Theodora took a couple of handfuls of the chicken pellets from the split bag in the hall and broadcast them over the gravel . |
| 21 | Adjusting to the disjointed ordering of time is like trying to adjust to the idea of massing all one 's sleeping hours into the first couple of weeks of the month to have the remaining two weeks wide awake . |
| 22 | The only photograph was of an elderly couple on top of the television , grey-haired and sporting smiles of false teeth . |