Example sentences of "couple of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He reached forward to turn off the gas poker and add a couple of peats to the fire . |
| 2 | The competition called for a first chapter of 2000 words to include a couple of phrases along the lines of ‘ the scent of freshly washed hair++ ’ |
| 3 | You just drill a couple of holes in the back you need |
| 4 | He let me take a box of groceries ( Sainsbury 's of course ) while he unloaded a couple of suitcases from the boot . |
| 5 | THE FRENCH always make a big mark from the catwalk at Royal Ascot but this year their horses also look set to enjoy a couple of cakewalks on the racecourse itself . |
| 6 | THE FRENCH always make a big mark from the catwalk at Royal Ascot but this year their horses also look set to enjoy a couple of cakewalks on the racecourse itself . |
| 7 | I had met a couple of girls on the beach at Pipeline . |
| 8 | She had not abandoned her own efforts , but she had got Mrs Diggory to fetch up a couple of girls from the village . |
| 9 | And er but it was only about half past five I did n't I never stopped till the I just kept going now tha well about half past four , I started to pack up and I realized my sandwiches were still in my snack box so I I 'd I 'd had one one earlier on whilst I was still working but yes the lady there she made us a couple of cups in the morning , er cu cup of coffee , I think about what yeah about half ten time but the time I painted a little bit and I thought oh I 'll stop and have a fag , with my coffee and I had a cup of tea later on in the afternoon but er I did n't stop , I kept going , you know and then course by time I got to my drink , it was cold it was cool , so you drink it straight down |
| 10 | We took in another couple of wraps on the genoa , came round into 30–40ft ( 9–12m ) of water , and wallowed our way slowly southwards once again , a scant couple of hundred yards off the reef . |
| 11 | It was , it was very nice except that Fred had a piece and left the last couple of slices in the tin on the side and the dog took a shine to it so it was in a tin and then in the dog . |
| 12 | The ice cold water made him gasp , but after swimming a couple of lengths of the plunge , he got out feeling an exhilaration beyond belief . |
| 13 | She paused at the mantelpiece to move a small cactus a couple of inches to the left . |
| 14 | Remember that the teeth run in an upward direction and the last tooth sits a couple of inches below the eye . |
| 15 | Kevin dug a hole to a couple of inches below the pipe , where ha wanted to cut through it . |
| 16 | ‘ It only came a couple of inches over the white line , he hit the brakes and it shot one way and then the other , ’ he said . |
| 17 | A tuck here and there , perhaps , and a couple of inches off the length , and their skirts would be quite presentable . |
| 18 | Apparently that drives a couple of bones into the brain . |
| 19 | There are a couple of hills beyond the A438 if you fancy , but the road is a convenient enough place to call it quits . |
| 20 | I accompanied the asparagus I had for dinner ( over-cooked ) with a couple of glasses of the Sasbacher Scheibenbuck Müller Thurgau ( trocken ) . |
| 21 | Pinch out the growing tips from tomato plants a couple of leaves above the top truss of plants . |
| 22 | Drop a couple of marbles into the cup and watch the water spill over . |
| 23 | ‘ All my choices have proved ill ’ , says Frodo within a couple of pages of the start of his quest . |
| 24 | So what I 'd like you to do if you just turn to page one sort of a couple of pages in the first one that 's numbered . |
| 25 | The mosquito hovers a couple of centimetres from the trunk and suddenly alights in front of the ant . |
| 26 | Couple of chaps at the school got booted out for that stuff and I never did get round to it . ’ |
| 27 | It is not everyone who can boast a Spitfire rebuild at the end of the cabbage patch , but with Spencer masterminding and a couple of chaps from the King Air days — two years later the contents of 35 cardboard boxes in pristine Spitfire formation bearing Spencer 's distinctive red livery , graced the skies . |
| 28 | Er so a lot of their power stations are actually built near borders for that reason , they 're , they , they , they , they make a lot of money by exporting nuclear electricity across the border to Germany , into Switzerland , to Belgium , to Holland and of course , through this , the these couple of cables under the channel , to Britain . |
| 29 | Nicky Summerbee claimed goal number 3 , although it took a couple of deflections on the way win . |
| 30 | We have also set up a couple of microphones in the real of the hall to break up the echoes which would otherwise bounce off that wall . ’ |