Example sentences of "[art] couple [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they passed close to the couple at table both the women recoiled as if the Devil himself had suddenly sprung up between them . |
| 2 | We ca n't go round sacking our leaders every couple of years just because the voters do n't like them , can we ? |
| 3 | I have n't noticed I 've lost any weight only that me clothes have gone a bit loose , it must be only a couple of pounds literally but on Mrs scales I 'm half a stone lighter , but I do n't think so by tomorrow night I 'll be about eleven , ten |
| 4 | There are occasions when you get an odd fish that weighs a couple of pounds more or less than the average on that day , but to expect this to happen is foolhardy . |
| 5 | The thought makes me scared , but I still feel relief when the scales show a couple of pounds less . |
| 6 | A couple of winters ago , caught out on a patch of ice , she 'd had a mild argument with a lamppost , damaging more or less the same spot that had been damaged again today . |
| 7 | ‘ I was just trying to get a couple of thoughts together , ’ she said . |
| 8 | There were already colonies of maggots at work on the body , particularly , the Doctor noticed , on the stump of the right wrist , and on the hand which was severed and lay a couple of feet away . |
| 9 | Any baby soother should be played at least a couple of feet away from her head . |
| 10 | He finally stopped when he was just a couple of feet away from her . |
| 11 | But she could n't think straight while Julius was standing just a couple of feet away ! |
| 12 | He stopped a couple of feet away . |
| 13 | Then he stepped towards her to stand just a couple of feet away . |
| 14 | Face turned on one arm , she risked a glance along the muscular length of the body stretched a couple of feet away from her , the briefest black trunks accentuating the dusky , even tan of his skin . |
| 15 | Easing the car into first gear , she set off back along the road , a frown deepening on her face as she was forced to crawl along at a snail 's pace , unable to see more than a couple of feet ahead in the ever-thickening snow . |
| 16 | However there is still a section at the end of the footway and before the start of the flood bank where there are just two fences a couple of feet apart with nothing between them . |
| 17 | I should like to mention again that the recent excavations at this point removed 5–6 metres of tarmac surface and replaced this with two fences a couple of feet apart with nothing between them . |
| 18 | This is often an unintentional form of steering which happens when the sail is not at the correct angle to the wind — the section of the sail next to the mast does not fill with wind and the driving force acts from a couple of feet farther back . |
| 19 | Re-baiting with a new crust I cast towards the branches , but my subconscious fear of snagging makes me cast a couple of feet short , but I decide to leave it and see what happens . |
| 20 | A couple of feet more water , and he 'd have gone on being carried along near the bottom , and safely out of sight . |
| 21 | The other , only a couple of feet further off , was boring in low , aiming for the region of his groin . |
| 22 | ‘ Right , tea and a couple of biscuits now , and supper later . ’ |
| 23 | There are a couple of pints left or five pounds has to go . |
| 24 | The great majority live in Reykjavik or a couple of towns close to it , and that leaves the country wonderfully bare , especially in the centre — what remains of the population is concentrated on the coast , where the chief occupations of fishing and farming are best practised . |
| 25 | Now this assembly can I get a couple of minutes please ? |
| 26 | Just put your papers down for a couple of minutes please . |
| 27 | Well ca n't you just talk cos it 's not long , just a couple of minutes just talk before you revise for a little while ? |
| 28 | It is , I make it a couple of minutes past |
| 29 | The German gunners reply crashing in a couple of minutes later caused pat and I to get on the floor fast . |
| 30 | A couple of minutes later the night silence outside was broken by the sound of a vehicle , presumably an ambulance , starting up and moving off . |