Example sentences of "couple of [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 … ‘ |
| 3 | Apparently he 's had a m a couple of mellies on Frank . |
| 4 | THE FRENCH always make a big mark from the catwalk at Royal Ascot but this year their horses also look set to enjoy a couple of cakewalks on the racecourse itself . |
| 5 | THE FRENCH always make a big mark from the catwalk at Royal Ascot but this year their horses also look set to enjoy a couple of cakewalks on the racecourse itself . |
| 6 | I had met a couple of girls on the beach at Pipeline . |
| 7 | We took in another couple of wraps on the genoa , came round into 30–40ft ( 9–12m ) of water , and wallowed our way slowly southwards once again , a scant couple of hundred yards off the reef . |
| 8 | Filled with a gentle and breadpaste mixture , with a couple of gentles on a number twelve hook , I think it 'd be a cert for bream . ’ |
| 9 | Couple of inches on there you could |
| 10 | Nicky Summerbee claimed goal number 3 , although it took a couple of deflections on the way win . |
| 11 | Doing things this way round certainly ensures the maximum individuality of each channel in the amplifier , without you having to resort to tap dancing lessons in order to switch channels and turn a couple of effects on or off simultaneously . |
| 12 | I got a couple of pints on my way home . ’ |
| 13 | In the Llanberis Pass , Steve Mayers has been busy with a couple of projects on the Cromlech . |
| 14 | I 'm going to change subjects now , but if you want to come back to the Gulf , do feel free , the lines are open on three double one , one double one , but I in the meantime we 'll take a couple of calls on different subjects erm let's go to June from Shillingford , hello June . |
| 15 | He 'd put a couple of maggots on a small hook . |
| 16 | The man had a couple of world-stoppers on his hands and he was n't ready to part with them . |
| 17 | Bring on Frank — give Deano a couple of games on the bench and he might come back looking a little sharper . |
| 18 | McLaren , the 22-year-old Hearts defender , told me recently that when he made his World Cup debut against Italy ( the game where he was asked to mark Roberto Baggio ) , the fact that he 'd been part of the squad at the European Championship finals , as well as playing a couple of games on the tour of North America last year , were of immeasurable assistance in making the step up . |
| 19 | He did a couple of things on the roof |
| 20 | Erm I 've mentioned a couple of things on the handout , one from this paper by Sigmund , another from I think this is in the British Journal of Psychiatry , I think they were writing . |
| 21 | After releasing a couple of singles on their own Hag label in 1989 , they signed for Musidisc the following year and released a debut album in ‘ A Weapon Called The Word ’ , which has since gone on to earn them a silver disc . |
| 22 | So this device couple of electrodes on the head , this device in the ear clicking away madly , and they monitor The anaesthetist s connects it all up , presses a button saying Awake , injects the person with the |
| 23 | I stumbled over a couple of boxes on the floor . |
| 24 | He 'd put a couple of cattle on this owd cart ; and I was a-pulling on 'em up , helping his horse , a-tracing on him . |
| 25 | I 'd left a couple of rings on which were really hard to get off . |
| 26 | I did anyway , I got on with most teachers but but he did , really did give him a a really big , say a big couple of swipes on his backside . |
| 27 | You may trip over a couple of times on the way but you will be quite capable of picking yourself up and getting on with life until you have achieved your goal . |
| 28 | The practice fence should be jumped slowly initially , then a couple of times a bit faster to get into cross country ‘ mood ’ and a couple of times on the angle so that the horse is awake and ready to think about the task ahead . |
| 29 | We 've gone back and forth a couple of times on pickups and pickup placement — one of the problems with having 24 frets is that the pickup has to be slightly further towards the bridge and it 's not such a warm sound , so there might have to be some compromise there . |
| 30 | But I did get away with it a couple of times on this record . |