Example sentences of "couple of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took a couple of strides towards her , and it was all she could do not to cower away . |
| 2 | free couple of vouchers for a new for a Corgi toy . |
| 3 | He reached forward to turn off the gas poker and add a couple of peats to the fire . |
| 4 | The competition called for a first chapter of 2000 words to include a couple of phrases along the lines of ‘ the scent of freshly washed hair++ ’ |
| 5 | And I knew I know this bloke eh , when he was a sergeant I think , anyway he was an officer , and eh , said we go to Sheppeards , I said you silly devil I ca n't get into Sheppeards Hotel I 'm a signal man I had to laugh he said , shame , he said cor , you 're about my size , get stuck into one of my uniforms we had a couple of weekends at Sheppeards Hotel , we had a great time . |
| 6 | Mr Braithwaite drained off his lime squash and added a couple of jiggers of rum to his empty glass . |
| 7 | From where I 'm sitting ( in a Paris café as it happens , pal , limbering up for the days 500cl — I mean 500 word slog ) , a rest in that sense would take the form of a couple of shifts in a Bolivian tin mine — and Club Med do n't fly there . |
| 8 | Who stayed upstairs I never did find out , but the house is now well and truly Yuppified and owned by a couple of actresses from good families . |
| 9 | er Chairman thank you for inviting me to come erm here today , er particularly as Mrs who 's the other member of erm , affected by the lorry ban on the A ten eighty eight it 's unfortunate unable to come , erm and thank you for including me in the er consultation process that you 're planning with Norfolk County Council , er Chairman obviously I wish to support this , but just erm if I could make a couple of observations on your paper , erm firstly particular relation to the discussion we just had about Brandon , erm , I am aware Mr Chairman you 've just described the er highways people in Norfolk as very reasonable , but I think that members will see particular if they look at problems like four point one that we do have to handle er working relationships with some care and I would want to express regret while I wo n't be less impolite than that , but Norfolk have not even seen fit to put up signs erm warning of the lorry ban erm in Thetford , erm , which shows er not exactly the spirit of co-operation , I hope we 're going to be able to achieve in the consultations about Brandon and I thought |
| 10 | Erm on the first bit of the handout I 've stuck a couple of definitions of child sex abuse on , just to um give you a little bit of context an and er give you some idea of the sorts of things that people have the sorts of ways in which people are defining this phenomenon nowadays . |
| 11 | For example , at least some of the 50,000-odd Sun users in the telecommunications sector could do with more advanced network management tools , he says , claiming there are already a couple of initiatives under way . |
| 12 | Linda Duff of The Star says afterwards , ‘ I 've got a couple of stories on them anyway and , with another tabloid present , I was n't about to give them away … ‘ |
| 13 | Put a couple of holes in it for the legs . |
| 14 | You just drill a couple of holes in the back you need |
| 15 | Thanks for suggesting this month 's solo go to Mr J. Webb from Barking , Essex ; a couple of sets of Scalar strings , courtesy of Clive Norris at Selectron U.K. will be sent soon ! |
| 16 | A couple of sets of Scalar strings , courtesy of Clive Norris at Selectron U.K. will be on their way to you soon . |
| 17 | A couple of sets of Scalar strings , courtesy of Selectron , will be winging their way to you soon ! |
| 18 | My thanks for suggesting this month 's solo go to Mr. F. Donavan from Milton Keynes ; a couple of sets of Scalar strings , courtesy of Clive Norris at Selectron , will be sent on their way to you soon . |
| 19 | A couple of sets of Scalar strings courtesy of Clive Norris at Selectron are winging their way to him as we speak . |
| 20 | Many thanks for suggesting this solo go to Mr S. Adams from Plaistow , London — a couple of sets of Scalar strings courtesy of Clive Norris at Selectron will be on their way to you soon … |
| 21 | At the end he played a couple of sets of variations as an encore . |
| 22 | Myth no. 3 : playing 18 holes of go If or a couple of sets of tennis at the weekend is enough to keep you fit Exercising once a week is not enough to make you fit . |
| 23 | A couple of tons of potatoes to peel . ’ |
| 24 | The infantry detailed to guard them let off only a couple of volleys before also taking to their heels . |
| 25 | Apparently he 's had a m a couple of mellies on Frank . |
| 26 | Unless they 're gon na get mucked out on Sunday , have to buy a couple of bags of sawdust . |
| 27 | I 'd just get a couple of bags for a Saturday night or whatever and then eventually I just got into it deeper and deeper . |
| 28 | Do you know I 've served in the Army for thirty three years and I 've commanded every thing at every level in the infantry which both these gentlemen have been in , from a platoon right up now to a brig er brigade and I can honestly tell you that I have n't seen more than a couple of incidents of bullying in the whole of that time . |
| 29 | He let me take a box of groceries ( Sainsbury 's of course ) while he unloaded a couple of suitcases from the boot . |
| 30 | Geoffrey saw her put a couple of suitcases in her car and drive off . |