Example sentences of "a couple of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I have a couple of scenes in which a black man has a gun in his hand , and if a black man wields a gun , automatically people wan na start arresting folks . |
| 2 | The Anchor brewery had been built in 1757 by a couple of brewers from Bethnal Green called Wastfield and Moss , at a time when the district was so quiet and un-built-up you could still see ships passing on the Thames from the brewery windows . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Morag unpacked her ‘ message ’ , which was a large cauliflower from someone 's garden , and a couple of pounds of tomatoes which had obviously , from the scent , been freshly picked , then , after we had admired them , left us . |
| 5 | You 'll need two plastic buckets , a couple of pounds of ‘ pea shingle ’ from the local builders ' merchant and a few drops of rosemary oil available from health stores or chemists . |
| 6 | But after the cauliflower curry , a couple of pounds of onion rings and six bottles of Kingfisher , I told him that I needed a place to stay out of sight for a few days . |
| 7 | Even with the other symptoms , the loss of a couple of pounds in a week seemed fine . |
| 8 | The contents were predictable : a leather key-fold , a couple of pounds in coin , and a handkerchief . |
| 9 | I 'm Catherine Gray , I have nothing worth taking , there 's only a couple of pounds in my purse if that 's what you 're after . |
| 10 | putting a couple of scientists into a room and say , Find It . |
| 11 | In some ways I envy what has happened to Paul Downton who , while he was with Middlesex , spent a couple of winters with James Capel , the City stockbrokers . |
| 12 | I 'd like to spend a couple of winters in sports PR and marketing , while my name is still on people 's minds before I retire . |
| 13 | Do you know I 've served in the Army for thirty three years and I 've commanded every thing at every level in the infantry which both these gentlemen have been in , from a platoon right up now to a brig er brigade and I can honestly tell you that I have n't seen more than a couple of incidents of bullying in the whole of that time . |
| 14 | In The Interpretation of Dreams Freud related how a patient regularly dreamed of floating a couple of feet off the ground . |
| 15 | We turned down the offer of researching exactly how many men we 'd get to 3,000 feet of urinals , but allowing a couple of feet for each one , 1,500 men would make Wembley the tops for discriminating against women . |
| 16 | The footbridge section was narrow , but only a couple of feet to his left — within touching distance , in fact — was the steel mesh side of the railway bridge where monsters went battering across , drowning out conversation as their lights flickered through the big crossed support girders . |
| 17 | To my surprise she felt able to walk right up to within a couple of feet of where the birds were . |
| 18 | Take a typical staircase in your home ( 3–35° ) , tilt it to match the angle of the sides of Egypt 's Great Pyramids at Giza ( 52° ) , remove some of the steps , and shovel ice and a couple of feet of snow over the whole affair . |
| 19 | The stage was by now swimming in a couple of feet of water . |
| 20 | Even those specimens collected from deep water seem to accept captive life in no more than a couple of feet of water quite happily . |
| 21 | To enable the miller to do this more easily the arms or stocks swept to within a couple of feet of the ground . |
| 22 | Often , a flash of azure draws you eye to a kingfisher , speeding like an Exocet missile a couple of feet above the water . |
| 23 | We do n't see much of them in the daytime , but at night the bedbugs crawl out from under our mats , and we listen to the cockroaches munching away merrily in the food-basket between our heads , and to the brittle scrabbling of their feet on the ceiling a couple of feet above us . |
| 24 | With her head down , concentrating on pushing the skis along and her mind happily listing the insults she 'd love to heap on his golden head , Shannon failed to notice that he 'd come to a halt just a couple of feet in front of her , till she cannoned straight into his solid bulk , her skis sliding neatly between his . |
| 25 | It was so heavy I could hardly seen more than a couple of feet in front of me . ’ |
| 26 | The white-hot stream flowed down a crudely fashioned open conduit , passing only a couple of feet from Robyn 's toecaps . |
| 27 | She kicked out again , this time cracking it a couple of feet from the juncture with the adjacent wall . |
| 28 | A faded yellow skip stood a couple of feet from the door , well within diving distance . |
| 29 | Scott steadied himself , waiting until the shape was only a couple of feet from him , then leapt forward , crashing into the intruder . |
| 30 | I 've already had a couple of spats with them and they would n't pass up an opportunity like this to poke fun . |