Example sentences of "[adv prt] for too " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been going on for too long . |
| 2 | COLBERT : It had gone on for too long : this is his ninth year on the Tour . |
| 3 | The main problem to prevent me playing on for too many years to come will be the competition from younger players at Middlesex . |
| 4 | It is important not to go on for too long , or to leave difficult business unfinished . |
| 5 | Intel Corp 's storming first quarter figures ( see page seven ) have not gone down well everywhere , and Hancock Institutional Equity Services analyst Eli Sayegh reckons that there is not much more to go for in the stock : he yesterday downgraded Intel to sell from hold , saying he thinks the company is near peak operating margins at just over 40% , double the historical norm ; he said the company 's margins have been driven largely by a shift from the 80386 chip to the 80486 chip ‘ and this can not go on for too long ; ’ he reckons that Advanced Micro Devices Inc will immediately take 10% of the 80486 market with its planned clone , and could take as much as 25% over time ; his damper wiped $1.75 off Intel shares at $115.75 . |
| 6 | so you felt that and that pulse point there if you press on it hard enough you can actually stop the one in the wrist and of course that is controlling the flow of blood to the rest of the arm and you leave a pressure point closed off like that for no more than ten minutes , because if you left it on for too long that it means not sufficient blood 's getting to the rest of the , the limbs and the limb must have its blood supply , so you leave the pressure on for ten minutes and then release it , say for ten seconds just so say that the hand comes back pinkish again and if it 's not slowing down , back on with the pressure again for another ten minutes and that 's how you use it , tap off , ten minutes at the most , tap on for a little while , if it 's leaked again reapply , ten minutes at the most , tap on again , okay and that 's how you 'll control it , so if you do have a sit a situation where the bleeding was bad cos you 've got a , a limb severed , you could n't perhaps put sufficient direct pressure over that limb , this done , right , to control the bleeding then you could use indirect pressure , here , breaking or here , right in the , no playing now please , no trying to find this one right now , do this one tonight , in bed and the old lady said now what are you doing to me , never you mind , go to sleep |
| 7 | For too long now , she had been starved of one particular need , the kind a respectable woman should not dwell on for too long , a deep-down need that only a man could satisfy . |
| 8 | Similarly this ‘ new message ’ can not be allowed to go on for too long , as the mind will require yet another change . |
| 9 | To avoid boredom one activity should not go on for too long , so always have a variety of activities ready . |
| 10 | The staff " spiritual " meetings on Friday night and the ever-present mercy seat also helped to ensure no grievance simmered on for too long , though " it was n't an angelic community by any means " . |
| 11 | Broadly speaking , sound was good but Mr Ponor felt the sound of the carriage at the beginning was a little distracting and went on for too long . |
| 12 | Now of course the difficulty you ca n't i it 's a personal thing and you do n't like standing watching all this operation going on for too long . |
| 13 | It is true that much of the country closes down for too long over this festive period , though there are advantages for industry in doing that and we all deserve a decent break at this time of the year . |
| 14 | ‘ Thrill ’ was the most frequent motive for attending but ‘ humour ’ was also frequently cited — if the wrestlers went in for too much close holding choruses of ‘ Kiss me sergeant ‘ and ‘ What blue eyes you 've got ’ would strike up . |
| 15 | ‘ If anything , containers were left in for too long to start with , though often it works well to leave the containers rinsing while you 're doing something else like working out field rates . ’ |
| 16 | But there are guidelines for women using tampons : Do n't leave a tampon in for too long ( time differs depending on menstrual flow ) . |
| 17 | And the little one will lose heart and its life will drift away if it 's cut off for too long from its own animal world . ’ |
| 18 | But he has been right in saying that urgent measures have been put off for too long . |
| 19 | Too much emotion has been bottled up for too long and in some firms the performance-reward link is seriously distorted . |
| 20 | Beware though , if you leave the bubble meter topped up for too long . |
| 21 | ‘ I hope I have n't held you up for too long , ’ she apologised quickly , realising that he could well have an appointment , and that he was on the point of leaving . |
| 22 | Shropshire Youth has been left out for too many years to fend for itself . |
| 23 | If the hour and 25 minutes sometimes drags through moments that are spun out for too long , and through some unnecessary tricksiness with the screens , that 's because it seems Lepage has n't yet quite found what he wants Miles Davis and Jean Cocteau to reveal to him . |
| 24 | When Rose saw the table already set for morning , she said , ‘ If you were around for too long I 'd be spoiled rotten . |
| 25 | DO N'T leave your cooked turkey lying around for too long . |
| 26 | They 'll tell you that Excel has been around for too long and its days are numbered . |
| 27 | I do n't think that Judaism or Christianity will be altered by any of this — they have been around for too long for that . |