Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] a couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | He owes us some money but yeah rotten milk , he sold us a couple of pints of rotten mi the only trouble is Joan have fucking thrown it out . |
| 2 | He jerked it a couple of times , and somewhere inside the cavernous depths a bell jangled loudly . |
| 3 | ‘ And he telephoned me a couple of times that week from the Institute . ’ |
| 4 | He joined us a couple of months back . |
| 5 | Willie tapped Zach 's shoulder but he had already read his mind and he handed him a couple . |
| 6 | It was n't a sort of a sort of a thin cane , it was quite a big stick , he whacked him a couple of times across the backside . |
| 7 | ‘ He gave me a couple of pills the size of tennis balls and told me to get my head down . |
| 8 | For instance , I recall one evening he came to me and took out a matchbox and he gave it a couple of shakes ; I thought there were matches inside , hut he opened the box and inside were some very evil-looking pills , about the size of , or a little larger , than a Beecham 's pill . |