Example sentences of "couple [prep] [noun] [adv] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charity runs a couple of hotels there with her husband Luiz Santana . |
| 2 | However there is still a section at the end of the footway and before the start of the flood bank where there are just two fences a couple of feet apart with nothing between them . |
| 3 | I should like to mention again that the recent excavations at this point removed 5–6 metres of tarmac surface and replaced this with two fences a couple of feet apart with nothing between them . |
| 4 | I just put down Ex-Soldier and never did change it , even when he came in a couple of minutes later with his canvas bag over his shoulder . |
| 5 | The Bodleian Library was asked to help with advice on how to save the volumes and the conservator of books there remembered an after-dinner conversation a couple of years ago with Dr Roger Angold , of RHM . |
| 6 | We went through all this a couple of years ago with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles toys and at first I thought Matchbox must be deliberately creating a shortage to whip up demand . |
| 7 | In 1979 I had built a small wind-up lectern for table-top use and followed that a couple of years later with a full-size floor-standing lectern that operates hydraulically . |
| 8 | He followed this up a couple of years later with Sophie 's Choice opposite Meryl Streep . |
| 9 | He had celebrated his birthday a couple of weeks earlier with balloons and four candles on an iced cake , and he was hoping the festivities might be going on indefinitely . |