Example sentences of "[noun pl] until he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was satisfied no fresh threat was about to manifest itself from the darkness , he moved off back the way he had come , retracing his steps until he reached the shallow stream he had leapt a short time before . |
| 2 | Slowly and with great dignity , Tsu Ma climbed the steps until he stood there at his dead father 's side . |
| 3 | Raucous , insane laughter that drummed in the agent 's ears until he feared he would go deaf . |
| 4 | Dundee United 's manager , Jim McLean , then took typically forthright action to bring the player to his senses , relegating Ferguson to the reserves until he learned to accept the club 's code of discipline . |
| 5 | Charles was determined to string Edward III along with fine words until he had recovered the hostages from England and settled accounts with the Duke of Brittany and with Charles of Navarre . |
| 6 | Despite the violence of the schism with his father , the eccentric streak prevailed to the extent that he was offered funds until he found his feet back West . |
| 7 | A Ugandan pathologist studying African cancer trends was sceptical of Zimbabwe 's high lung cancer figures compared with other African nations until he had checked our records for himself . |
| 8 | He hugged the banister , counting its bar-like wooden rods until he reached the turn where it met the wall . |
| 9 | Harry drew the wallet from his pocket and leafed through the pictures until he found it . |
| 10 | He was educated at local council schools until he obtained employment as a shipping clerk , working with several companies until he was thirty-eight . |
| 11 | When the Friar left the children beneath the tree he went hurriedly but surprisingly lightly for a man of his bulk through the bushes until he came out on a narrow path that twisted this way and that into a deep ravine both sides of which were dark with yews . |
| 12 | Julia laid her head back but did not shut her eyes until he had left the room . |
| 13 | Into this stalks Zoltan Szanto ( Niels Arestrup ) , as a Hungarian conductor who believes the power of music should ease all the squabbles until he gets caught up in the soap opera himself , beginning an affair with the opera 's star Karin Anderson ( Glenn Close ) . |
| 14 | Moments later the parade was dismissed and while others returned to their tents Charlie walked slowly back behind the lines until he reached the mass burial ground . |
| 15 | A child putting a straw into each of the bottles in the crate will not know whether he has enough straws for bottles until he has distributed them one-to-one . |
| 16 | He picked up his journal and leafed through the parchments until he found a certain sheet , then read it through in silence . |
| 17 | When MCA bought Decca and Universal in 1962 , Rackmil became vice-chairman of the board and remained head of both the film and record companies until he retired in 1972 . |
| 18 | Dorcas fumbled in his pockets until he found a stub of pencil lead . |
| 19 | Yanto cycled on down the wharf , dodging the mooring ropes until he arrived at the berth of a small Norwegian timber boat called ‘ Marit , ’ registered in Oslo . |
| 20 | He ducked low and scuttled across the open space between the door and the first row of desks , hoping Spatz would n't catch a glimpse of him , then ran along the corridor between the desks until he came to the end . |
| 21 | They were incapable of experiencing any emotions , their bloodstreams devoid of blood yet flowing with drugs to sustain their pitiful physical states until he received the call , the dreaded call to wheel them into the lift and press the green button . |
| 22 | He was a hard , yet scrupulously fair person to staff and players and he remained constant in his attitudes until he died . ’ |
| 23 | I cuddled him for four hours until he died in my hands . |
| 24 | It would only be another twenty-four hours until he got back from Soldeu . |
| 25 | He had an endearing habit at 10 o'clock of calling on each facet of his customers , starting with the lowest rank of airman , to " piss off " ; and worked through the ranks until he got to Kings ( and on this occasion it happened to be King Peter of Yugoslavia ) . |
| 26 | Secrett has refused to comment on his plans until he takes up the post . |
| 27 | And while he says that he is prepared to go on doing musicals until he has one that really works , he would probably not agree with that picture of himself as fighting against the tide . |
| 28 | Well we did n't notice the footprints until he 'd left . |
| 29 | He did that several times until he had established the depth to reach the lock and bolt and he now knew a single spring-loaded tumbler holding it in place . |
| 30 | When we sat down for our sandwiches , I made him go away with the grisly thing , but we could still hear him crunching away behind a rock — first a crunch then a cough as he swallowed a feather , then another crunch then more coughs until he realised there was no future in it and came round for a sandwich . |