Example sentences of "couple [prep] [noun pl] later [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A couple of minutes later she heard the chair that had wedged the door handle shut being moved . |
| 2 | She began to walk forward rapidly , but a couple of minutes later she came to an abrupt stop . |
| 3 | Couple of minutes later she phones back , er I missed that one I 'll have to get , or the next one ! |
| 4 | And from the next corner a couple of minutes later he repeated the dose . |
| 5 | A couple of minutes later he rose . |
| 6 | A couple of minutes later I hailed a cab and was on my way to Heathrow . |
| 7 | A couple of hours later she glanced at herself in a mirror and gave a rueful little chuckle . |
| 8 | A couple of hours later I collected the box , mysteriously taped down and with a mass of weight on top . |
| 9 | A couple of hours later he rang to ask her to pick him up . |
| 10 | The first effective English settlement in the West Indies , founded in 1624 , was on the island of St. Christopher ( later called St. Kitts ) which was shared with the French , informally at first and then by a formal partition worked out a couple of years later which lasted until the British gained the whole island in 1713 . |
| 11 | A couple of years later she had her second baby and again breast-fed for a few months after the birth . |
| 12 | A couple of years later he graduated to sticking up posters to advertise concerts . |
| 13 | A couple of years later I went to primary school and came under the strict , disciplined regime that was usual in Jamaica in those days . |
| 14 | Well , he said he was a writer , and I said I was looking for plays to invest in and why did n't he write one about his friend , and a couple of months later he 'd written something pretty splendid , had n't he ? |
| 15 | He won a silver medal for 5,000 metres at the World Junior track championships last year and a couple of months later he took fourth place — again at Junior level — in the World cross country championships in Boston . |
| 16 | A couple of months later he did come to the Hammersmith Odeon with Bernie and me to see them play I could seethe relief on his face when he realised they really were a band . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , a couple of drinks later it transpired that one of them has a boyfriend who gets up at six in the morning to meditate , while the other said her best friend had been snapped out of a severe depression by a weekend of psychodrama . |
| 18 | A couple of days later we found his body in a disposal . |
| 19 | Yes , Elizabeth Howell of Exploring Parenthood , certainly that is the case , both with parents and with people like teachers or child care workers , who are in locus parentis for many hours of the day , and our sense is very much that if the adults around children can feel supported and confident that they can acknowledge their own fears and anxieties that they will then be better be able to transmit that measured response to the children in their care and it was very interesting last week , I heard from an educational psychologist in the north of England who said that a group of teachers had asked from several schools to come together to think about the resources that they needed to set in place in order to deal with the children 's behaviour , and after the meeting , at which they were able to express their anxieties , they then returned to their various areas and when the psychologist contacted them a couple of days later they said we felt sufficiently supported by knowing that others are struggling with the same issues and that we could acknowledge our concerns about it , that we now feel able to get on with the job of helping the children , and I think that was a very good example of adults finding a way to acknowledge their own anxieties and thereby to increase their effectiveness in dealing with the children that in whose care they have . |
| 20 | The following day I sent him the stamps and a couple of days later I received in the post not the book but a cheque for slightly less than the value of the book and postage combined , together with the following note , which I reproduce in its entirety : ‘ Herewith a cheque for £20 . |
| 21 | We got drunk , had a good time and a couple of days later I had to make a decision . |
| 22 | But something kept nagging in my mind , and a couple of days later I sent my secretary to Upper Thames Street to get the files of our earlier correspondence with him , and the original specimen of his signature kept by the bank . |
| 23 | order the parts and everything , so I went down a couple of days later I said just for curiosity what 's , what 's it gon na cost us this bloody lot ? |
| 24 | However , a couple of days later I moved into my bungalow and it was quite a job . |
| 25 | And he I ca n't remember what it was now but he told us and erm a couple of days later he says erm when we went out he said what do you fancy tonight ? |
| 26 | In fact a couple of nights later he took me to see Max Miller at Holborn Empire and would not let me pay for anything . |
| 27 | ‘ A couple of weeks later they dragged him off the ice in North Harbour . ‘ |
| 28 | A couple of weeks later we had an indoor match in Budapest against Hungary and this time I won , 21.3 to Ade 's 21.6 , with some top Hungarians trailing behind . |
| 29 | A couple of weeks later I noticed 15–20 free-swimming fry . |
| 30 | When the film was repeated a couple of weeks later I decided that this was another omen . |