Example sentences of "couple of [noun] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three times a week , Ira would saddle a couple of quarter-horses and they 'd walk between the banked roses , listening to the zip , zip , zip , as water from fifty sprinklers fell among the blooms . |
| 2 | Lucy knew it because whenever she started to talk about Christine , she 'd realise after a couple of minutes that they 'd moved on and were now talking about something else . |
| 3 | cos they go ooh for about three seconds or a couple of minutes and they 'll forget about it |
| 4 | But joint Charlton manager Alan Curbishley said : ‘ Nobody begrudged Robert his move — and that was not the case with a couple of players when they left . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Andy wiggles a couple of times as they get the feel of each other again . |
| 7 | But Royle warned : ‘ We have had Cambridge watched a couple of times and they are an honest , hard-working side . |
| 8 | Mrs Bradshaw had met my mother a couple of times and they plainly approved of each other . |
| 9 | erm er and it involves going to the lab and sitting around for about a couple of hours while they feed you a bit of sugar and then take some blood tests every half hour . |
| 10 | I followed tyre-tracks north for a couple of hours until they fizzled out . |
| 11 | When we returned to New York after the tour , David and DeFries had a couple of meetings and they were rather funny , too , because I would ask each of them what happened . |
| 12 | I have written to one or two retail outlets complaining about them selling these fish , also spoken to a couple of managers but they are still selling these fish . |
| 13 | They went back down the garden and after that out to a couple of pubs where they drank a lot and Rufus had to drive back to Wyvis Hall with one eye closed on account of getting double vision . |
| 14 | The young man , who is now 23 years old , was only 16 when a car ploughed into him and a couple of friends as they walked home from a party . |
| 15 | Not only have Down and Donegal shown the way over the past couple of years but they have helped to generate tremendous interest in gaelic football . |
| 16 | Parents usually keep their children at home for a couple of years after they have completed their six years of compulsory education . |
| 17 | It needed to be , with a different corps every couple of years once they became officers and a new baby born every eighteen months or so . |
| 18 | My ‘ old ’ boat was well known to the local seals , and they would allow a really close approach , but I have only had my present boat a couple of years and they are still suspicious . |
| 19 | You know they were only being taken on for a couple of months and they , they wanted to form a trade union but quite a lot of the tra er father Christmases would n't join a trade union . |
| 20 | apart from one Reverend the most Reverend Doyle or something and he saw one gunmen and he saw him fire a couple of shots and they told him to piss off out of sort of thing |
| 21 | Yeah , and there 's another couple of guys and they were saying that how strict the training was when they first took it on you know that the their masters used to beat them and everything , into submission , s said they had to have complete submission before they could train them to be what they were , you know , bring them up , teach them and train them |
| 22 | He 'd done a couple of circuits before they stopped . |
| 23 | ‘ I represent about 12 players at Tottenham Hotspur , and they 've all told me in the last couple of days that they certainly will put in for transfers and leave Tottenham Hotspur . ’ |
| 24 | But just a couple of days after they moved into their dream home in Quedgeley , it was stolen and torched . |
| 25 | I mean I 've known little strikes there last about a couple of days and they all got over it . |
| 26 | ‘ We have been round there in the last couple of days and they have moved on now . |
| 27 | yeah so I said oh I see , so that was that , so I think they 've got a , a meeting in a couple of weeks and they 'll sort of tell her discreetly that she has to carry on and do it what she 's been the |