Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] a couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , amateur societies just ca n't exist without loyal officers and those officers have shown their loyalty by s standing again and we know the special circumstances appertaining to the , which brings us to the nitty- gritty now erm you said we have , Tracy , five erm perhaps you 'd better read those names out for us and then I think the best thing to do is to have a closed vote , where we give you all a piece of paper on which you state your nomination folded up so nobody else can see we 'll put them in a bag and then we 'll appoint a couple of to count the vote so that we do not the chairman . |
| 2 | Oh , he said , I expect in a minute the door will be flung back and I 'll be dragged off to some sort of temple arena where I 'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then I 'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl will show me the secret passage out of the place and we 'll liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure . ’ |
| 3 | Okay , first thing we 've got to derive , we 'll do a couple of examples , let's have an employed client , and self employed , because when we start from differs , depending on whether employed or self- employed . |
| 4 | And he said no , we 'll send a couple of planes . |
| 5 | We 'll collect a couple here and now … |
| 6 | I 'm going to change subjects now , but if you want to come back to the Gulf , do feel free , the lines are open on three double one , one double one , but I in the meantime we 'll take a couple of calls on different subjects erm let's go to June from Shillingford , hello June . |
| 7 | Right I 'll get us some fags , we 'll have a couple of cakes . |
| 8 | So we 'll have a couple of drinks and that 's it for tonight . |
| 9 | We 'll need a couple of weeks to settle in before she comes . |
| 10 | We 'll need a couple of hours at least . ’ |
| 11 | Er depending on how today 's discussions go we 'll need a couple of erm references on er |
| 12 | I 'd be happier still if we could land a couple of efficient centre backs . |
| 13 | Perhaps we could make a couple of trips on match days . |
| 14 | So we could get a couple for here |
| 15 | We could get a couple of dozen now , I ai n't had a dozen yet ! |
| 16 | Then as we got older , about 16 or 17 , we used to give a couple of bob at the end of the week to keep all our shoes . |
| 17 | ‘ If we can get a couple of results back to back we know we will be in the race . |