Example sentences of "a couple of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She stuffed a couple of biscuits into her mouth and leaned across the desk . |
| 32 | His eyes made a significant dip and he waited a couple of beats before adding , ‘ And the kind of body which has been known to drive men wild . |
| 33 | Whisper it not at the British Heart Foundation , but we knew that , as well as the salt , into that dinner had gone a dozen eggs , a couple of pints of cream , half a pound of butter , a quarter-pound of sugar and about half a pint of Calvados . |
| 34 | ‘ We had just played two games in three days , so I had the players in for a hot bath and a massage before taking them for a couple of pints of Guinness . |
| 35 | We had just played two games in three days , so I had the players in for a hot bath and a massage before taking them for a couple of pints of Guinness . |
| 36 | Anyway , what I 'm askin' you to do now is to get on your feet and go and get me a drop of gin and a couple of pints of beer . ’ |
| 37 | ‘ 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 . |
| 38 | Then he 'd been walking back to The Randolph when he suddenly felt he just could n't face his excessively sympathetic countrymen , and he 'd called in a pub and drunk a couple of pints of lager . |
| 39 | Had he been in Whitechapel , Charlie would have been happy to run up and down the market from five in the morning to seven at night and still box a few rounds at the club , drink a couple of pints of beer and carry out the same routine the next day without a second thought , but when at nine o'clock the sergeant-major gave them a ten-minute break for cocoa he collapsed on to the verge exhausted . |
| 40 | From here a couple of pints of fresh for tech |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | He is a man who plays the game with huge heart but who always shares a couple of pints with the opposition afterwards . |
| 43 | I got a couple of pints on my way home . ’ |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | me , my mate and paul had a terrible night out after the spurs game : first we were supposed to meet two fellow norw. at a pub ( the black lion ? ) and they never showed up — then we went downtown to the marquee which was empty ( 8 quid out of the window ) and a not the place to go at a saturday nite ( no live music , just house — which i quite like — but there has to be some people around ) — then standing in queue at ‘ the borderline ’ for a couple of hours not getting in … and it was bloody cold ( hi paul ) — the wind just froze my balls of ( well nearly ) … the meet-up was cozy though — no problems finding the guys ( or rather : just look for mr cantona ) and time for a couple of pints before and after the game and no problem wearing a leeds outfit at the pub … i was not sporting my leeds away scarf when among the newcastle crowd though ; - ) |
| 46 | Connor went off to draw a couple of pints behind the bar , as Ruth shook hands with the young man . |
| 47 | It was still raining steadily when she 'd put him to bed , after a last half-hour of television and a couple of chapters of Stig of the Dump . |
| 48 | He smoothed out a couple of folds in his best V-necked lambswool pullover , and slipped it over his head . |
| 49 | The man had a couple of world-stoppers on his hands and he was n't ready to part with them . |
| 50 | Within a couple of minutes of his destination he was approached by children again . |
| 51 | I just brought my guitar , played a couple of minutes of each song and Mike Rutherford said , ‘ That will be fine . |
| 52 | I just brought my guitar , played a couple of minutes of each song and Mike Rutherford said , ‘ That will be fine . |
| 53 | Within a couple of minutes of going over the destroyer 's port side , Donald Roy 's kilted Scotsmen were attacking the pumphouse 50 yards from the caisson ( 'H' on diagram p. 41 ) . |
| 54 | ‘ She develops this grandiose theory of herself as being important , and makes Truth Or Dare which I saw a couple of minutes of but had to stop watching because it was so unpleasant and embarrassing and awful . |
| 55 | After a couple of minutes of this he decided to go back to Elstree . |
| 56 | Erm if I could just stop there for a couple of minutes to er make a point about er independent taxation . |
| 57 | This added a couple of minutes to the time it took . |
| 58 | It took a couple of minutes for my breathing to steady . |
| 59 | Using a couple of minutes for private imperatives was a serious violation of property rights . |
| 60 | Sedgley was sent on for Walsh in order to protect the two-goal lead , and Hendry was given a couple of minutes at the end so that Lineker could take a well-earned breather . |