Example sentences of "[adv prt] for too long " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | But there are guidelines for women using tampons : Do n't leave a tampon in for too long ( time differs depending on menstrual flow ) . |
| 5 | Too much emotion has been bottled up for too long and in some firms the performance-reward link is seriously distorted . |
| 6 | They 'll tell you that Excel has been around for too long and its days are numbered . |