Example sentences of "couple [prep] [noun pl] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He let me take a box of groceries ( Sainsbury 's of course ) while he unloaded a couple of suitcases from the boot . |
| 2 | She had not abandoned her own efforts , but she had got Mrs Diggory to fetch up a couple of girls from the village . |
| 3 | The mosquito hovers a couple of centimetres from the trunk and suddenly alights in front of the ant . |
| 4 | It is not everyone who can boast a Spitfire rebuild at the end of the cabbage patch , but with Spencer masterminding and a couple of chaps from the King Air days — two years later the contents of 35 cardboard boxes in pristine Spitfire formation bearing Spencer 's distinctive red livery , graced the skies . |
| 5 | I was clumsy and had to pick up a couple of notes from the floor and wipe the bags where I 'd touched them with a handkerchief . |
| 6 | She reaches over into the back and grabs a couple of cans from the crate lying on the back seat next to his peaked cap . |
| 7 | Rod grabbed a couple of cans from the dispenser and followed him . |
| 8 | She kicked out again , this time cracking it a couple of feet from the juncture with the adjacent wall . |
| 9 | A faded yellow skip stood a couple of feet from the door , well within diving distance . |
| 10 | Just a couple of minutes from the centre of Going , this picturesque gasthof is accessed from a quiet road running alongside a stream . |
| 11 | With this weekend 's match against Paisley now rendered meaningless , Stokes is likely to promote at least a couple of players from the advanced training group to give them national league experience . |
| 12 | It was n't enough for her , after spending the day on her own , hoovering , shopping and running the washing machine , so she said , for me to retell a couple of jokes from the Telegraph diary . |
| 13 | The table Andy is perched over is stacked with several hundred champagne glasses , forming a glittering pyramid rising a couple of metres from the table 's surface . |
| 14 | One day she went to her favourite place , a beach a couple of hours from the city , and realized she 'd become a stressed-out workaholic . |
| 15 | Erm , I do n't , I do n't know what er people are er afraid of , or frightened of really , j just by sending a couple of delegates from the trades councils that would er voice the concerns of the rank and file , it 's not going to er set any dangerous precedents , and let's , let's not forget that those people would be from recognized trades unions as well . |
| 16 | With a shrug , he retrieved his black jacket , pinched a couple of cookies from the carefully arranged plate and drifted quietly away through the front door . |
| 17 | The cab driver had dropped him a couple of streets from the rented apartment . |
| 18 | Strombolian activity , then , is a bit noisier than Hawaiian , but it 's still not particularly dangerous — there are two villages on Stromboli only a couple of kilometres from the ever-active vent , and the inhabitants rarely have cause to worry about whether they will live to see the sun rise on another day , or on another boatload of visitors coming across to look at the volcano . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've got a couple of friends from the old days , they 're vultures now . |
| 20 | Mrs Abigail , taking another couple of plates from the back of the van , was aware only that her companion was speaking ; the content of her statement did not register . |
| 21 | In Los Angeles , for show-bizzery , there are the Theatre Book Shop at 6658 , Hollywood Boulevard , and Book City , across the street at 6627 , just a couple of blocks from the star-encrusted sidewalk by Mann 's Chinese Theatre . |
| 22 | There were no other papers.Just Eva 's letters and a couple of clippings from the newspaper about her . |
| 23 | If she keeps that up I will be able to buy myself a couple of books from the alcove book shop by the end of the summer . |
| 24 | I was supposed to have a meeting on with erm , a couple of guys from the British Coal Enterprise down in Middlesbrough with , but unfortunately again the weather caught all of them out and they decided not to come , but did n't occur to them to say they would n't come , so I sat down there for an hour , and eventually managed to find a phone number and get in contact and the guy was still there , and he said oh no I 'm not coming up . |
| 25 | Up until then , they had given Sale an object lesson in the art of taking limited chances with a couple of tries from the ubiquitous Morris , who seems a genuine open side . |
| 26 | And two or three temps and the rest were a couple of temps from the mixing plant . |
| 27 | Forewarned , and insisting on something cheaper , I was booked into The Hotel Olympik , a couple of miles from the centre , but still expensive . |
| 28 | I had been given his address by friends in Britain and now took a taxi to his flat , a couple of miles from the hotel but still in the older part of the city of Buda . |
| 29 | In those days it was a picturesque village a couple of miles from the pleasant and compact town . |
| 30 | Once they were a couple of miles from the Manor , where the woods were at their most impenetrable , she reined in Moonbeam and drew to a halt in a little glade . |