Example sentences of "couple [prep] [noun] [Wh adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While they had been talking , there had been a couple of moments when he had n't looked in the least civilised ! |
| 2 | ‘ David had been involved with a couple of things in the past , producing a couple of B-sides when I was in Quiver — we actually used his home studio for demos . |
| 3 | No , I 'll put me trust in strong peppermints while I can , and hope Doctor Lovell can spare a couple of minutes when I 'm real hard-pressed . |
| 4 | Would you care to accompany me now or follow in a couple of minutes when you have finished your conversation ? ’ |
| 5 | My horse went down a couple of times when we were riding along a shallow river The hooves must 've turned up the mud at the bottom and I 'm sorry but no amount of expert preparation can help you keep cool when a 500lb horse goes down on you . |
| 6 | Their contents had usually turned out to be machine parts but there had been a couple of times when he had found something a little more palatable — once a case of French Burgundy , on another occasion a case of German hock . |
| 7 | Chuck noticed that instead of drinking the usual cold tea like the others he surreptitiously raised a hip flask to his lips a couple of times when he thought he was unobserved . |
| 8 | ‘ In all my years of motor racing , I can only think of a couple of times when I mastered the machine as at the Nürburgring in 1968 . |
| 9 | In fact , I 've been bloody stupid at times , playing a couple of times when I should n't have . |
| 10 | ‘ I went out with him a couple of times when I was at the Sorbonne . ’ |
| 11 | But then again yo you 're you 're advised against going over the speed limit that most people do , I do I I tell yo like I said I 'm not a saint cos like a couple of times when I was first driving , especially in my fucking sprint cos it was a quick car I used to drive up people 's arses and wait until I could overtake them and if they did slow down that used to incense me and I 'd fucking , I 'd go right up there arse and then probably try and cut them up when I went , overtook them and I s fucking learnt , I got a I had a couple of close calls like , people are slamming brakes on and stuff |
| 12 | I mean I remember when I went , first went to my cheap caravan site where there is n't a toilet and you have to walk to the toilets , and I remember a couple of times when I was little , shitting my pants on the way to the toilets , you know , cos I could n't hold it in . |
| 13 | That 's why I make sure I 've got a couple of hours where I 'm really with her almost exclusively overlap too easy otherwise . |
| 14 | There were times during these last couple of years when I felt he hated me . |
| 15 | In , his reading aloud had proved to be successful except for a couple of occasions when he had had a particularly stressful day and had found it exceedingly difficult to relax . |
| 16 | He could have been the greatest horse in the country , he beat Hugo Simon and Gladstone by a couple of seconds when we won the World Cup in Amsterdam . |
| 17 | And you saw the marks only for a couple of seconds when he lifted his palms to receive the Host . |
| 18 | I was reading an article only in the last couple of days where it was talking about not particularly tourism , it was talking about a business that was in difficulty , and it said , you know , do you actually make people redundant , you do you stop advertising and you know the bottom line is you 've got to keep advertising because if you do n't tell people you 're there nobody 's going to come and buy your product , whatever it is , and you 're going to disappear anyway . |
| 19 | ‘ We will be back in the summer for perhaps a couple of days when we have got the bigger picture and can ask more intelligent questions , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Some viruses can be so vicious that if you do not take care of yourself for a couple of days when you first fall ill you could spend three weeks or more under par . |
| 21 | Well , you 'll have a chance in a couple of days when it 's done again . |
| 22 | couple of days when it 's gone really cold |
| 23 | she 'd gone for a couple of days when she was up but she says she has n't been up to see her for about eighteen months ! |
| 24 | Consequently she was having her first decent sleep in a couple of nights when her alarm clock went off the next morning . |
| 25 | After a couple of nights when he had difficulty in getting to sleep , Charles had slept well . |
| 26 | ‘ I suppose the difficulty is going to be finding a time in the next couple of weeks when we 're both free . ’ |
| 27 | Bacardi and coke is my only tipple and I do sometimes get through a couple on nights when I 'm in myself , well it 's better than turning to the biscuit barrel is n't it ? |