Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] a couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Judith Hurwitz , now head of the Hurwitz Consulting Group , says the whole tone of SCO Forum was different this year and obviously indicates they are jockeying to go public — even though they 'll need a couple more quarters at least to get the kind of track record they need to do it . |
| 3 | ‘ Often they 'll kill a couple of lambs , take one at the time and leave one to be picked up later , ’ he explained . |
| 4 | And then erm they 'll have a couple of hours or an hour break there probably and then erm |
| 5 | No , no , no , we get , they could do a couple of duff hands and we could do |
| 6 | They used to , cos they 'd put a couple in the old anchor boat what we were n't using it , put a couple in there and they 'd tow 'em up to the dock . |
| 7 | Also , it 's very good for your exports , because at the moment in Australia , say , they 're buying no hardback books and they will order a couple of hundred paperbacks by an unknown author . ’ |