Example sentences of "couple of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind her in the procession to the dining-room was Grace Langley on the arm of a languid young man with a monocle , several couples of strangers , and then Rose Langley in pink , giggling , and a young man like a ferret . |
| 2 | They had both animals ready and saddled up in half an hour , which was as well , because five minutes later , on the stroke of half past seven , Lord Deverill himself arrived , accompanied by four couples of hounds . |
| 3 | The ‘ germ ’ of this story , I think , is the idea ( I do not know who first expressed it ) that couples of servants who apply for situations as man and wife have often met for the first time in the registry office . |
| 4 | But we missed a couple of fairways and he was n't strong enough to hit far out of that heavy rough . |
| 5 | For this I would most certainly cross oceans , let alone forgo a couple of treatments . |
| 6 | and there 's that on the floor , there 's a couple of loads there |
| 7 | He would feint and leave two or three opponents sprawling or plodding in his wake before he released the ball , unerringly , to either the flying Joe Hulme , who would not even have to pause in his flight , or the absolutely devastating Cliff ( ’ ’ Boy'' ) Bastin , who would take a couple of strides and whip the ball into the net . |
| 8 | ‘ He was nearly put out of the race when he ran into the back of Clifton Charlie who had broken a leg and yet he would have caught Lochsong in another couple of strides . |
| 9 | He caught up with her in a couple of strides . |
| 10 | She turned angrily back to the car , but Guy caught up with her in a couple of strides , catching her shoulders , spinning her back to face him . |
| 11 | He took a couple of strides towards her , and it was all she could do not to cower away . |
| 12 | He crossed the room in a couple of strides to sit on the bed beside her . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I have to point out that my blaster has enough power for a couple of bursts , and if necessary I 'll use them . |
| 15 | free couple of vouchers for a new for a Corgi toy . |
| 16 | Couple of hearts , how exciting . |
| 17 | Everybody makes a big deal out of it now , because I 've done a couple of albums and you do all these guest sessions and stuff and it 's like ‘ Wow , he plays bass . |
| 18 | This line-up recorded a couple of albums and toured successfully in many countries . |
| 19 | He reached forward to turn off the gas poker and add a couple of peats to the fire . |
| 20 | An old chest of drawers , the only other furniture , was piled with an incongruous collection of objects , shirts still in their transparent packets , women 's underwear , silk scarves , tins of salmon , baked beans , soup , a packet of ham and one of tongue , three model kits for making boats , a couple of lipsticks , a box of model soldiers , three packets of cheap scent . |
| 21 | Their new wave cash-in does n't go any deeper than Jon Boy 's new perm , and , apart from the title track and a couple of nonentities , they retain all the circa ‘ 85 Cola and passion and AOR guitar wank moves even the metal fraternity despises them for . |
| 22 | 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++ ’ |
| 23 | A couple of musicians , that 's all . |
| 24 | ‘ A couple of adjectives to describe him ? ’ |
| 25 | It comprised 20 professionals from SSDs , voluntary organisations , private sector , health sector and after much campaigning , a couple of users . |
| 26 | I turned to my typewriter and typed a couple of theses . |
| 27 | HP seems to have at least a couple of options : an immediate Thunderbird response , levelling the playing field with Sun right now — with ships in October — or a big splash in the Autumn , with immediate deliveries . |
| 28 | ‘ Since you 're a very beautiful woman ; we can immediately rule out the possibility that that no one 's ever been sufficiently attracted to you that they would attempt to storm your female bastions — which leaves another couple of options . |
| 29 | ‘ And stood outside the Tube station rattling a tin for the RNLI a couple of weekends ago . |
| 30 | Just just for a couple of weekends to see how many actual calls we do get . |