Example sentences of "[adv] for a [adj] while " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE new captain of Preston Grasshoppers is none other than England lock WADE DOOLEY , which wold suggest that — at least at club level — the ‘ Blackpool Tower ’ has every intention of playing on for a little while . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | THE WORLD HAS stopped making sense again , and Odilo forgets everything again ( which is probably just as well ) , and the war is over now ( and it seems pretty clear to me that we lost it ) , and life goes on for a little while . |
| 4 | And you 'd all got to get on , and stay on for a little while without touching the floor , then you could have another go . |
| 5 | Anyway , he waffled on for a little while about everything that did n't matter and then … ’ she swallowed ‘ … then he got down to it and told me about everything that did . ’ |
| 6 | You know then we thought right , we 're not just gon na forget about this you know , we 'll we 'll carry on for a little while longer and then as soon as the ball really started rolling , er personally I thought well you ca n't back down now , . |
| 7 | ‘ Only for a short while , Father , ’ the young priest rejoined . |
| 8 | I have given my consent , intending to gratify her wishes in this respect only for a short while . |
| 9 | When I was sitting in that corridor there was one of the tutors on the phone , only for a short while |
| 10 | It 's only for a little while . |
| 11 | Stay , if only for a little while . ’ |
| 12 | The two of them had once shared a mistress in Lewisham , but only for a little while . |
| 13 | When you sit down for a wee while . |
| 14 | Things would quieten down for a little while and the huddles be reformed , but before long there was the crack of a whip and a pony and trap would dash down the field . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , I 'll come along for a little while to the bonfire , but do n't accept for me later . |
| 16 | The sing-song lumbered along for a little while but it appears that the ‘ Ball of Kirriemuir ’ has been removed from the Examination Syllabus . |
| 17 | So for a short while the two movements , Co-operation and trade unionism , had fused . |
| 18 | I did n't know Julia had n't been in for a long while . |
| 19 | May we , er , come in for a little while ? ’ |
| 20 | No they have n't got that in for a little while . |
| 21 | He went out and Sisteradmission-ward came in for a short while , and we reconstructed the story . |
| 22 | I popped in for a short while to the Scottish Gallery in Cork Street , to see the most recent sculptures by Gerald Laing . |
| 23 | The paths of two lives , or three to be exact , came together for a little while and then separated . |
| 24 | Finn must have been lying awake in the darkness , as she was , the wall separating them like Tristan 's sword , for she could hear the soft murmur of him and Francie talking together for a little while , but she could not make out one word . |
| 25 | They had been friends for long enough , they 'd been to school together for a little while until geography had pushed them apart , then they 'd met up again as older teenagers , both interested in bars and snooker , then in girls . |
| 26 | Seem to put them away for a long while but |
| 27 | away for a wee while again . |
| 28 | Some fudge the issue by saying that the grandparent has gone away for a little while . |
| 29 | Just for a wee while . |
| 30 | I to the school after I was fourteen just for a wee while . |