Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] a couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a lighter note a fellow worker approached me only a couple of months ago er , the new European directive almost ruined his holiday he then explained he booked up to take his family to EuroDisney . |
| 2 | He takes me aside a couple of times and begins in a soft Welsh lilt : ‘ I was thinking , now this might not be a good idea and tell me straight away if you do n't like it … ’ |
| 3 | Alternatively , it will cost you only a couple of stamps ( Ed 's note : Do please always enclose an SAE ) to write and ask me before you do something . |
| 4 | Oh , sometimes it was irritating , even downright infuriating to look round and see him just a couple of paces away , but she only had to look into those dark eyes to feel that treacherous quiver of desire deep in the pit of her stomach . |
| 5 | Josie looked at her strangely a couple of times , and asked her if she felt ill . |
| 6 | After that I saw her maybe a couple of times . |
| 7 | ‘ He took my phone number and I met him again a couple of times . |
| 8 | He lured me there a couple of years ago to talk to his sixth form group about the Irish problem . |
| 9 | ‘ He said he 'd read it somewhere a couple of years ago , and it had struck him so deeply that he could n't shake it from his mind . |
| 10 | They announced it just a couple of weeks ago . |
| 11 | giving it just a couple more minutes and if he does n't come |
| 12 | Once you think it is clean , rinse it again a couple of times to make absolutely sure , fill the basin with cold water and place one strand of seaweed in the basin at a time . |
| 13 | I felt then that at last the ambitions I 'd had for so long were possible , and that I could stop worrying about the gypsy who 'd looked at me closely a couple of years earlier , and said : ‘ You 'll never come to anything , you wo n't . ’ |