Example sentences of "couple of [noun] because [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm asking the people round the table to write these extra couple of letters because we must be activists because we 're here by definition . |
| 2 | However , I knew at least a couple of players because I 'd caddied for Roger Fidler in the 1977 British Open while I was still an assistant , and I 'd also carried Florentina Melina 's bag . |
| 3 | Well the tom tiddlers of British political life I suppose write their memoirs for a couple of reasons because they ca n't ever admit to themselves they are tom tiddlers . |
| 4 | Could I then come to the body of the report , rather than the East Grinstead by-pass , which I , I , I I agree is , is pertinent erm I was , I read this a couple of times because I was a bit confused about the rather if I may say so convoluted argument that was in it erm I think I understand the argument that the erm is that the Mid Sussex District Council have asked for advice and the recommendation is that advice . |
| 5 | People only see the good-for-nothing sons who hang around bars getting into fights and pushing drugs ; they do n't see the real shepherd , the man who spends almost all of his life alone , spends his days making the cheeses they take for granted and his nights sleeping sometimes only for a couple of hours because it 's lambing time . ’ |
| 6 | We 've done relatively well in the past couple of years because we 've had a lot of petrol pumps , because of the new , the opening of the big supermar the , the supermarkets where there 's thirty , forty pumps go going , we make a fair bit of money in that way . |
| 7 | I said I would , but I would n't see him for a couple of days because I had to take a train . |
| 8 | Said Graham : ‘ He 'll get the weight off in a couple of weeks because he 's working hard in training and then he 'll be back in the side . ’ |