Example sentences of "couple of [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we missed a couple of fairways and he was n't strong enough to hit far out of that heavy rough . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Michael Banks managed his lines fairly well , with only a couple of mishearings and one awfully long thirty seconds where he totally lost the thread . |
| 4 | We birdied the first couple of holes and we were on top of the world . |
| 5 | You 'd have to dig a couple of holes and you 'd have to concrete the bugger in |
| 6 | Official figures are not available on the number of pickets injured , but there were at least a couple of fatalities and it is the opinion of some observers that , in the major conflicts of the dispute , casualties amongst the pickets greatly exceeded those of the police ( Wallington , 1985 : 149 ) . |
| 7 | the end of the last straw you see , so I went in the Co-Op and I felt really , really fed up , I said I oh I said I could cry I said because I 've tried so hard I said not for lending you money I said , I 'm not meant to have any sodding luck so got a couple of bits and I really could n't get me act together and on the Tuesday dad 's gone in hospital with that fit , so I was thinking of him a lot and I thought I do n't know dad , you know I 'm sure , I 'm sure that he were n't gon na come out when he went in there , I thought they were gon na bloody find something with you boy and that would be it , so I come home here and I ai n't done no work , so I started off for work , both sitting here bloody bawling cos this house looked like shit , spoke to me sister on the phone and er I felt a bit better so I thought oh I 'd start doing the tree , so I pulled it all to bits in here , got the polish and duster out , put all the bread and everything for Alan 's sandwiches , it 'd be about oh , about half past twelve and the bloody phone went it was mum , she said Lyn do you think you can come up to the hospital with me , cos I 've got no transport and so I said what 's up then mum ? |
| 8 | Could you bring in a couple of ashtrays when you come in love ? |
| 9 | We caught the coach to Blackpool , a couple of mates and me |
| 10 | Three times a week , Ira would saddle a couple of quarter-horses and they 'd walk between the banked roses , listening to the zip , zip , zip , as water from fifty sprinklers fell among the blooms . |
| 11 | I 'm asking the people round the table to write these extra couple of letters because we must be activists because we 're here by definition . |
| 12 | He 'd chain-smoke a couple of Merits while we chatted about what had happened since our last meeting and then he 'd hand me over to the guy in the room next door for a routine polygraph . |
| 13 | Listen , you sit down , I 'll get a couple of coffees and we 'll have a chat , OK ? ’ |
| 14 | Can I just ask a couple of questions before we finalize before lunch . |
| 15 | A couple of questions if I may please Mr Sexton . |
| 16 | Chairman I do have a couple of questions , I do have a couple of questions if I may . |
| 17 | Add another couple of feet and it 's twice as hard . ’ |
| 18 | Oh I er I could n't tell you be a couple of feet or something like that . |
| 19 | Could of had a bit of mash and could of had a bit of mashed potato and couple of eggs or something . |
| 20 | There were a couple of things that I 've never seen anywhere since , relics of Victorian engineering . |
| 21 | Now before you go racing ahead there 's a couple of things that I need to tell you , so can I show you how to do the first one , and then you can race on with it . |
| 22 | You could say , well thank you for doing that , erm , there are a couple of things that I 'm not happy with , and then put the praise on the end . |
| 23 | I 'm just going to give you a couple of things that you can use for each of these phases , and when you get used to them , you can really spread out and do all sorts of other exciting things . |
| 24 | Right can I ask you to pay attention to a couple of things when you do this diagram . |
| 25 | Yeah , he 's , he 's into ev oh it must 've been about six or eight weeks ago he started saying a couple of things and I thought oh he 's coming now , but it stopped I think I got excited when he started saying dark , but that 's as far as it got , int it ? |
| 26 | ‘ So if you can come up with a way of going down there , past the guards , up to the house , into a room or two , and being left alone for a couple of minutes while I secure the devices — OK , you 've got what you want . ’ |
| 27 | Can we just spare a couple of minutes so we can get this straight , because I did rush through it , and it was , er , obviously wrong of me . |
| 28 | Lucy knew it because whenever she started to talk about Christine , she 'd realise after a couple of minutes that they 'd moved on and were now talking about something else . |
| 29 | Continue to fry with the onion for a couple of minutes until it begins to absorb the oil . |
| 30 | cos they go ooh for about three seconds or a couple of minutes and they 'll forget about it |