Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for a [adj] while " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When you sit down for a wee while . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | Some of the early structure plans were extraordinarily ambitious in their scope : land use plans promised just for a little while to become all-embracing social , economic and ‘ physical ’ documents , with a further clear relationship to transportation matters . |
| 5 | 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 , . |
| 6 | The paths of two lives , or three to be exact , came together for a little while and then separated . |
| 7 | He went out and Sisteradmission-ward came in for a short while , and we reconstructed the story . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | with , with my granddaughter , she , she did the same s she used to go and babysit at this girl 's house and she fe felt , she was only fourteen , and she felt sorry for her and she 'd go and babysit every night she 'd go and babysit and er but she used to b sit up in the bedroom , she never ever went down the sitting room thinking that the child 's mother was either down in the sitting room or just going out for a short while and coming back and then eventually they put erm a bed up in the child 's bedroom for Denise to stay there over nights and Pearl did n't worry at all , well she knew , knew where , at least she knew where and er this girl was bringing men back down in the sitting room every night , three or four , sometimes ten men in a night during the night ! |
| 10 | You sit there , then you get up and you walk to one end of your cell , which is n't very far , stand there for a little while , then you walk back , look out the window , and all the thoughts go through your mind — I could be out there , your children , friends , what you 'd be doing if you was out there . |
| 11 | I popped in for a short while to the Scottish Gallery in Cork Street , to see the most recent sculptures by Gerald Laing . |
| 12 | He had abruptly spurred ahead of her then without replying , and they had ridden without speaking further for a long while . |
| 13 | A spokeswoman for the Guides Association said yesterday : ‘ She worked here for a short while and I suppose it was just a job to her . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The sing-song lumbered along for a little while but it appears that the ‘ Ball of Kirriemuir ’ has been removed from the Examination Syllabus . |
| 16 | Some fudge the issue by saying that the grandparent has gone away for a little while . |
| 17 | Yes well I 'll go fortnightly for a little while then it 'll tail off . |
| 18 | Hayman thought deeply for a long while before making up his mind . |
| 19 | We fell out for a little while but I mean , playing loud but I mean upstairs is fine . |
| 20 | And that 'll get the inside of that sorted out for a wee while again young William . |
| 21 | Neither of us spoke for a few moments , then she asked : ‘ Do you mind if I stay here for a little while ? ’ |
| 22 | All went well for a short while , but then his childhood respiratory problems returned . |
| 23 | If I cough or something it goes quite for a little while then comes back again . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , I 'll come along for a little while to the bonfire , but do n't accept for me later . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | May we , er , come in for a little while ? ’ |
| 29 | She says that considering he 's only lived here for a short while , it 's fantastic the way people are celebrating his success . |
| 30 | He was strong , crawled about for a short while and walked quite strongly at ten months . |