Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] have a couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you mind that anyway , cos I may have a couple of people er that may want a few of them to , spoken to Dav , David , he 's got one or two as well . |
| 2 | so I might have a couple of days off and then I can be with Laddie and take him for walks and everything |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll have a couple of drinks to give me Dutch courage , then I 'll join you . |
| 4 | Reflecting on the way ahead he said : ‘ I 'll have a couple of low-key junior games with North and see how it goes . |
| 5 | So I said I 'll have a couple of th they I said . |
| 6 | I got a chicken from there other day , I went for a joint of pork I thought oh I 'll have a couple of them joints , fetch a couple back and er I says it 's not Christmas now you know . |
| 7 | The following morning I worked as usual and then asked Kathleen if I could have a couple of days off . |
| 8 | ‘ I could have a couple of hours free tomorrow . |
| 9 | For those of you who think self-employed actually means well I can crawl out of bed at elevenish , work till fourish , that 's three days a week because the other two days I can have a couple of rounds of golf , Thursday and Friday , those of you who think that 's what self-employed means , are gon na fail . |
| 10 | ‘ There are times when I wish she could have a couple of years off to bring up her children , be at home with them , and not worry about anything else apart from them and her husband . |
| 11 | I can re I can recall when you used to have a couple of weeks of er bad weather before Christmas , snow and that , and sometimes even Christmas s er snow on Christmas day |
| 12 | You can have a couple of thousand for a diner . |
| 13 | Yeah you can have a couple . |
| 14 | Right I 'll get us some fags , we 'll have a couple of cakes . |
| 15 | So we 'll have a couple of drinks and that 's it for tonight . |
| 16 | Right , right but the two's company and three 's a crowd idea is that if you 've got er two people , they , they may have er some libidinal interest in each other and they may have a couple , but a third person is , is just a complication . |
| 17 | And then erm they 'll have a couple of hours or an hour break there probably and then erm |
| 18 | He 'd go to football training , he was into physique , and he 'd have a couple of pints after , and at first he went out Fridays and Sundays . |
| 19 | Well before the evening really got under way , he would have a couple of hundred roubles in his pocket , to be converted into a night of vodka-drinking and celebration . |