Example sentences of "until i had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was terrified of the Sultan , but for his own safety decided the best policy was to cling to the Tughluk 's fingertips ‘ and every time he said any encouraging word to me I kissed his hand , until I had kissed it seven times . ’ |
| 2 | Yeah , I did n't have until I had to swap them all round |
| 3 | It happened like this : last Saturday , after the farewell party at Nanking University , I came back to the hotel , and packed my things ready to leave for Shanghai , then about 10.30 I started to feel sick , and it got worse and worse and went on and on until I had to wake up Comrade Wu at about 3.30 and ask her to get a doctor . |
| 4 | He would not let me off the hook until I had confessed that I could no longer work with my boss . |
| 5 | She listened without interrupting until I had said all I wanted to say . |
| 6 | I stood there and promised them that I would stay alive until I had killed the monster . |
| 7 | And I should n't leave Lothian until I had killed every Norman I could find , and all the families who were supporting them . |
| 8 | After that , I was put on a weekly wage of five shillings — a veritable fortune — four of which I kept locked in a tin box under Granpa 's bed until I had saved up my first guinea : a man what 's got a guinea got security , Mr Salmon once told me as he stood outside his shop , thumbs in his waistcoat pockets , displaying a shiny gold watch and chain . |
| 9 | She laughed and screamed until I had to smother her mouth with kisses . |
| 10 | My way would be to lay planks and make do with these until I had confirmed that it was in fact a good swim . |
| 11 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 12 | The only real hiccup was that the local DHSS would not assess my benefits until I had moved in , and social services were not prepared to finalise the amount of their commitment until they knew the DHSS 's ! |
| 13 | The school-leaving age — without the exceptions opposed in 1936 by the Local Education Authorities , the National Union of Teachers , Harold Macmillan , Walter Citrine of the TUC , and ( of course ) William Temple — was to be raised to fifteen on 1 April 1947 , and to sixteen as soon as it became practicable ( which , in the event , was not until I had completed my teaching career in secondary schools ) . |
| 14 | The Hurricanes were to land at Hal Far aerodrome and I circled that aerodrome until I had seen them all land safely . |
| 15 | I moved round behind his back , until I had seen into every part of the room . |
| 16 | Braque himself has best described his new method of work when he said , ‘ the fragmentation ( of objects ) enabled me to establish space and movement within space , and I was unable to introduce the object until I had created the space . ’ |
| 17 | The legs started trembling and cramping à la Victor Meldrew and did not improve until I had sunk about six gallons of tonic water , minus gin I hasten to add . |
| 18 | It was n't until I had to have a full medical two years later that I found I 'd got hookworm . |
| 19 | ‘ The shop-owner rang me and said she would n't move until I had found her a house , ’ she explained . |
| 20 | A little ward-maid appeared at the bedside with an enormous vacuum flask of Georgian tea , refusing to leave until I had downed every drop . |
| 21 | I could never tell how good the ground was until I had tried the wheelbarrow on it . |
| 22 | They could not even think of washing my hair until I had had this operation to put the two rods in my back . ’ |
| 23 | I should wait until I had got to the prison camp and then escape . |
| 24 | If I were just starting zandering from the beginning I would not even consider night fishing for them until I had got my act together in the daytime . |
| 25 | It never struck me as odd until I had left school , that a school of girls aged from eleven to eighteen should daily be addressed as ‘ children ’ . |
| 26 | At least we would be out of the rat race until I had worked up some seniority in my job . |
| 27 | I talked utter rubbish for hours , and on the few occasions that I faltered Lorne would break in and take over until I had recovered my strength . |
| 28 | I then found another and another , and they kept coming up until I had recovered twenty-two of them in all . |
| 29 | Although Fair Isle is officially part of Shetland , and I had been a keen birdwatcher since I was a boy , I had never had the opportunity to visit the island until I had started to work for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . |
| 30 | Dad and Eva could discuss the most trivial things , like the nature of the people Dad met on the train , for hours , until I had to shout at them , ‘ What the fuck are you talking about ! ’ |