Example sentences of "couple [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and there 's that on the floor , there 's a couple of loads there |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ And stood outside the Tube station rattling a tin for the RNLI a couple of weekends ago . |
| 4 | I went to Chichester with Joe a couple of weekends ago . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ There were a couple of stains here he wanted us to get rid of . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You see , we usually take on a couple of girls locally for when the season picks up . |
| 14 | And a couple of girls so they got the message and then the they moved off down towar down the bottom . |
| 15 | You sort of read a couple of bits then doze off and then ! |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | You 've given a couple of reference here |
| 20 | Yeah , but not only that when you get a couple of dickheads like we had |
| 21 | You got a couple of lamps either , well in the one case where there was a small landing , a hanging lamp and the other bigger , you had a table , you had a an ordinary table lamp . |
| 22 | I mean , erm she actually then chooses to walk up and down the third storey erm couple of pages later , Jane , when she wants a bit of solitude . |
| 23 | Personal pensions are described a couple of pages further along , so if you are interested in taking advantage of this option you should read the section carefully . |
| 24 | Charity runs a couple of hotels there with her husband Luiz Santana . |
| 25 | You got a couple of letters here . |
| 26 | Just like to show you a couple of videos now . |
| 27 | There were a couple of diggers far out . |
| 28 | There are a couple of pints left or five pounds has to go . |
| 29 | He cleared his throat and continued to stare out of the window for a couple of moments longer . |
| 30 | We stayed in that house till I were eight year old and then we were went on to where I lived the rest of my time and that would have been from nineteen twenty to oh a couple of year ago . |