Example sentences of "they a couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | His current offer would have seemed attractive to them a couple of years back , but not now . |
| 2 | Nearly two years later he told me that in each of those ten Crusades , people on the committees had said that , although everyone had agreed on certain tasks to be done , they only actually got cracking on them a couple of days before I was due back ! |
| 3 | The American scene should be a piece of cake for these lads after several years of sharing a camper and traversing huge chunks of arid land to play in one-day pro-ams that may net them a couple of hundred pounds . |
| 4 | I refused but gave them a couple of biscuits and to their delight took their photographs . |
| 5 | You feel like you 've heard them a couple of hundred times when it 's only been twice . |
| 6 | Simply order them a couple of days in advance and pick them up the night before or on the day they are required . |
| 7 | Sometimes Bill yields to impulse and buys them a couple of gooey Danish pastries as well . |
| 8 | ‘ We should have beaten them a couple of weeks ago when we finished all square and I have every faith in the boys , ’ asserts Nelson , ‘ Since then we went very close against Tipperary and given the self-belief the team now possesses I think we can give a very good account of ourselves on Sunday . ’ |
| 9 | Well , we 're not supposed to start till five past , so let's give them a couple more minutes just in case they 're caught in the lift or something . |
| 10 | If you 're buying them as young plants which are probably a foot fifteen inches high then it takes them a couple of years to get the roots established . |
| 11 | gon na be worth a lot of money , with some people you 've got to give them a couple of free tickets |
| 12 | Oxford put three past them a couple of weeks ago … but Swindon know what to expect |
| 13 | the swing and I 've bought them a couple of wooden puzzles where you pick the bits up so , I thought well then I 'll call it a day there , and that 'll be that |
| 14 | quote them a couple of hours , we drop the normal rate , you know by say thirty percent to start |
| 15 | Er we 'll buy them a couple of towels or something . |
| 16 | still gon na take them a couple of hours |
| 17 | And what they do , is they give them a couple of choices of bo , you know , hip joints to go for and the guy decides , the surgeon decides , does his job and then the kit goes back to the manufacturer again and then when the , another hospital orders it they make up a , another kit . |
| 18 | Yes , Elizabeth Howell of Exploring Parenthood , certainly that is the case , both with parents and with people like teachers or child care workers , who are in locus parentis for many hours of the day , and our sense is very much that if the adults around children can feel supported and confident that they can acknowledge their own fears and anxieties that they will then be better be able to transmit that measured response to the children in their care and it was very interesting last week , I heard from an educational psychologist in the north of England who said that a group of teachers had asked from several schools to come together to think about the resources that they needed to set in place in order to deal with the children 's behaviour , and after the meeting , at which they were able to express their anxieties , they then returned to their various areas and when the psychologist contacted them a couple of days later they said we felt sufficiently supported by knowing that others are struggling with the same issues and that we could acknowledge our concerns about it , that we now feel able to get on with the job of helping the children , and I think that was a very good example of adults finding a way to acknowledge their own anxieties and thereby to increase their effectiveness in dealing with the children that in whose care they have . |