Sentence examples for copped from inspiring English sources

I didn't know what to expect and copped out pretty early on after some of the comments started saying horrible stuff directed towards my family, whom I'd mentioned in passing a particular piece.

I know when we travelled to the UK, to South Africa, to India, we copped it.

Ponting certainly has copped his share of bouncers on this tour – in these pages and others – and was even accused by one commentator in the wake of the needlessly rancorous first Test in Cardiff of being "duplicitous" and possessing not "a shred of moral authority".

I've copped a fair bit of stick but even through that time I had a lot of support from family and close friends.

I copped it all the time on the fence.

In 2008 it copped another €899m penalty for failing to comply with the commission's ruling in that case.

Bankers have clearly copped a lot of flak in recent years.

He copped out.For their part, the Republicans have made it clear that they have no interest in Mr Obama's plans to spend or invest more money.

He reflected last week that any abuse he had faced from his enemies in federal politics was "small beer compared with what I copped in the 1980s in Tasmania, as a gay member of parliament".The Greens' recent rise in the federal sphere also reflects voters' disillusionment with the two main parties.

He thought he had copped it when, at 16 and on Atlantic patrols on HMS Hood in 1939, he looked up to see a black object "as big as a London bus" tumble gently out of the sky and pepper the deck with shrapnel.

Meulensteen feels that the United captain "does not look totally himself" having copped a large wave of criticism from his own fans of late, with many believing that summer signing Anthony Martial should be leading the line with Rooney either sitting deep or dropped.