Example sentences of "[adv prt] for a little " 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , I 'll come along for a little while to the bonfire , but do n't accept for me later . |
| 9 | The sing-song lumbered along for a little while but it appears that the ‘ Ball of Kirriemuir ’ has been removed from the Examination Syllabus . |
| 10 | He never wrote entirely admiring reviews : ‘ It 's the essence of a book never to be perfect , ’ he said , ‘ so its writer must expect to come in for a little criticism . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I think , ’ the policeman was saying , ‘ I 'd better take her in for a little talk . ’ |
| 12 | Everyone goes in for a little enhancement , one way or another . |
| 13 | May we , er , come in for a little while ? ’ |
| 14 | Mm , either way though , I mean the thing is if they do , you , you would be in for a little bit of something , if you hung it out till be , to being redundant |
| 15 | No they have n't got that in for a little while . |
| 16 | ‘ Not really , dear , but she wo n't be over for a little while . |
| 17 | Now I 'm gon na turn it off for a little while until everyone starts having a proper conversation . |
| 18 | All sorts would turn up for a little chat . ’ |
| 19 | And holding them up for a little bit of erm laughter . |
| 20 | We had a bachelor party on board , who were out for a little merrymaking : an island marriage ball had wooed them from the desk of the counting-house , and having had a taste of the free air of these parts , and being good fellows well met , a few more days of healthful roving have a gleeful appendix to the gaieties of the wedding . |
| 21 | This ranks as one of the few occasions in the past 20 years when I have forked out for a little bottle . |
| 22 | But Eric came back from a working holiday and Peter was out for a little while , was n't he ? |
| 23 | When you wind your way around the picturesque Lincoln Half-marathon course , look out for a little chap dressed in green who 'll be running backwards . |
| 24 | Now this guy is er out for a little afternoon run on his motorbike . |
| 25 | ‘ And what kind of dybbuk informs their victim that they 're slipping out for a little coffee-break or whatever ? ’ |
| 26 | So while he and Stapleton were led out for a little exercise , the Blue Cross carpenter , Alan Key got to work . |
| 27 | We fell out for a little while but I mean , playing loud but I mean upstairs is fine . |
| 28 | what I 'll probably do is take you out for a little while so you can go up and see Annie and all that , next week , not only a |
| 29 | Well really when I had the same thing , you know , and goes back for a little bit this morning and er same sort of thing . |
| 30 | Gladys wo n't ever come back for a little girl will it ? |