Example sentences of "couple [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ billow ’ or cone shape which develops in the sail under air flow couples with sweep back on the leading edges to offer a natural washout . |
| 2 | Couples with children also fared badly during the 1980s , but their risk of poverty still remains much lower than that of lone parents ( 18 per cent in 1988 , up from 9 per cent in 1979 ) . |
| 3 | There is widespread concern about the difficulties faced by couples in marriage today . |
| 4 | and there 's that on the floor , there 's a couple of loads there |
| 5 | And goods wagons that needed to be unloaded , er would be brought into , er at least unloaded erm er perhaps for the distribution of items in the town , would be brought onto that turntable erm and normally horse , purely a horse hook would be er put on er and swung round , and the wagon , or the wagons , a couple of wagons perhaps , would be taken at right angles into that er goods shed for unloading . |
| 6 | ‘ And stood outside the Tube station rattling a tin for the RNLI a couple of weekends ago . |
| 7 | I went to Chichester with Joe a couple of weekends ago . |
| 8 | For example , at least some of the 50,000-odd Sun users in the telecomms sector could do with more advanced network management tools , he says , claiming there are already a couple of initiatives underway . |
| 9 | ‘ There were a couple of stains here he wanted us to get rid of . |
| 10 | Place it right on the edge so that the next step below the bottom is at least a couple of stories down , because even moderately sloping sections of a mountain goat cliff may have forbidding dropoffs at the base . |
| 11 | Dismount ( in the case of a threeday event , wait until the steward gives you permission ) and loosen the girths and the nose-band a couple of holes then walk the horse quietly back to the box for washing down . |
| 12 | A couple of firms still make traditional garages in treated softwood or Western red cedar ; note that these will generally have to be sited at least 1m from property boundaries to satisfy the requirements of the Building Regulations . |
| 13 | Finally , one of the students whom I had worked with a couple of summers previously came back to me just before I left post to discuss his third year project at Shrivenham and I was able to arrange for him to do a project involving the linking of a commercial graphical package to the expert system developed as part of the war time operation aid mentioned previously . |
| 14 | Yvonne and I at South Queensferry a couple of summers ago , across the road from the Hawes Inn at the slipway underneath the tall stone piers of the rail-bridge , the mile-wide river bright before us , people promenading along pavements and down the pier , an occasional smell of frying onions from the snack bar beside the Inshore Lifeboat shed . |
| 15 | A couple of summers back , a lot of new age disciples rushed off to remote mountain tops to await a momentous signal to occur They waited and waited for something exciting to happen . |
| 16 | As to what he 'd been doing , there had been a couple of incidents down by the river , which on top of the morning 's ordeal , had about finished him . |
| 17 | I spent most of the day mooching around Winnipeg , seeing a couple of owners once in a shop selling Eskimo sculptures , but never coming face to face with anyone who might know me . |
| 18 | I can easily walk to do shopping and so on , but I 've got a couple of suitcases here now , and I certainly ca n't manage those . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You see , we usually take on a couple of girls locally for when the season picks up . |
| 20 | And a couple of girls so they got the message and then the they moved off down towar down the bottom . |
| 21 | Anyone who did n't know them might have taken them for a couple of businessmen out for a Sunday afternoon stroll . |
| 22 | One of the tabloids got a couple of columns out of it — Teen Lovers ' Nude Death Ride on Dizzy 's Yacht but mostly the papers left it alone . |
| 23 | You sort of read a couple of bits then doze off and then ! |
| 24 | The shot that came back off Shilton 's bar in the last minute in Chorzow — a couple of inches lower , and England might have been on their way out of the World Cup — was a symbolic warning . |
| 25 | The price surprised him : you get a lot of car for just over £20,000 , if only in terms of its length , which is the same as a Mercedes 260E and a couple of inches more than the 5-series BMWs . |
| 26 | A couple of youngsters yesterday , seven year old , eight year olds at the very most , they have one of these gas lighters , up round the back of the . |
| 27 | You 've given a couple of reference here |
| 28 | Yeah , but not only that when you get a couple of dickheads like we had |
| 29 | Can you bring a couple of ashtrays in when you come in ? |
| 30 | Did , even with the few times my parents have gone away , I 've never held parties , I may of had a couple of mates round just to let them kip over or something , come back I 've never , ever held a party , I would n't , I respect them , well I mean I would n't respect them make , every er penny they earned in the last fifteen years gone into that house , they 've had one holiday in that time and erm , gorgeous house , no its a lovely house , full of nice stuff as well , I , I , I would n't dare have a party |