Example sentences of "couple of [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He let me take a box of groceries ( Sainsbury 's of course ) while he unloaded a couple of suitcases from the boot . |
| 3 | She had not abandoned her own efforts , but she had got Mrs Diggory to fetch up a couple of girls from the village . |
| 4 | Whether it 's a knitted or fabric item , suitable fillings will be required so we thought we would tell you about a couple of products from Abbey Quilting Ltd , a company which specialises in wadding and filling products for craftwork . |
| 5 | Take a couple of instances from Agatha Christie , who was marvellously cunning with it . |
| 6 | I poured my heart , soul and a couple of vats from Nettles brewery into making it a cohesive , disciplined goal-scoring machine , only to see my dream sabotaged by soccer-illiterate shopkeepers and eleven Lego-legged , sloth-brained idiots in vaguely matching shorts . |
| 7 | All too easily the hands move out a couple of inches from their position and then attack the ball from the outside . |
| 8 | All crews agreed it was a top-notch event and plan to meet next July for a re-match , when they hope to entice a couple of crews from Chapelcross onto the water to make it a truly inter-site event . |
| 9 | The mosquito hovers a couple of centimetres from the trunk and suddenly alights in front of the ant . |
| 10 | It is not everyone who can boast a Spitfire rebuild at the end of the cabbage patch , but with Spencer masterminding and a couple of chaps from the King Air days — two years later the contents of 35 cardboard boxes in pristine Spitfire formation bearing Spencer 's distinctive red livery , graced the skies . |
| 11 | I was clumsy and had to pick up a couple of notes from the floor and wipe the bags where I 'd touched them with a handkerchief . |
| 12 | She reaches over into the back and grabs a couple of cans from the crate lying on the back seat next to his peaked cap . |
| 13 | Rod grabbed a couple of cans from the dispenser and followed him . |
| 14 | The white-hot stream flowed down a crudely fashioned open conduit , passing only a couple of feet from Robyn 's toecaps . |
| 15 | She kicked out again , this time cracking it a couple of feet from the juncture with the adjacent wall . |
| 16 | A faded yellow skip stood a couple of feet from the door , well within diving distance . |
| 17 | Scott steadied himself , waiting until the shape was only a couple of feet from him , then leapt forward , crashing into the intruder . |
| 18 | ‘ Live , we did a couple of things from ‘ Genesis To Revelation ’ and we did quite a lot of very gentle acoustic things which did n't last . |
| 19 | I 'd gone into Woolworth 's in Reading and stolen a couple of things from there , and I was hanging around the car park . |
| 20 | ‘ We have a couple of injuries from this game but there were also a few bruised egos and broken hearts . |
| 21 | Just a couple of minutes from the centre of Going , this picturesque gasthof is accessed from a quiet road running alongside a stream . |
| 22 | After casting on and knitting a few rows , you just need a couple of minutes from time to time to go back to the machine and change the punchcard or pattern number . |
| 23 | With this weekend 's match against Paisley now rendered meaningless , Stokes is likely to promote at least a couple of players from the advanced training group to give them national league experience . |
| 24 | It was n't enough for her , after spending the day on her own , hoovering , shopping and running the washing machine , so she said , for me to retell a couple of jokes from the Telegraph diary . |
| 25 | And when he comes out of hospital , it 's like they 've forgotten he exists — just a couple of visits from a nurse . |
| 26 | Dean agreed : ‘ I had an opportunity to watch Jimmy a couple of times from short leg in my first season here , and I realised then that he does n't go very far forward . |
| 27 | The table Andy is perched over is stacked with several hundred champagne glasses , forming a glittering pyramid rising a couple of metres from the table 's surface . |
| 28 | In London , with a couple of contemporaries from Cambridge , he started his own company , the Movable Theatre , for which he did two ravishing productions a year . |
| 29 | One day she went to her favourite place , a beach a couple of hours from the city , and realized she 'd become a stressed-out workaholic . |
| 30 | She tried to see herself through this man 's eyes , to relive the last couple of hours from his point of view . |