Example sentences of "till the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will keep till the end . |
| 2 | The thing is that it costs 40 lira to go up now , but if he had waited just one hour more , till the 11 a.m. departure , he would have had to pay only two lira . |
| 3 | Determined to follow his own star , he was drawn to his classes in Canadian Literature ( which Dudek did hand-in-hand with MacLennan ) ; and the Great Writers of Europe ( from 1850 till the present ) ; as well as Poetry of the 20th Century ( in particular that of W.B. Yeats , T.S . |
| 4 | The final information turned up late and we were at it till the small hours . |
| 5 | ‘ Not till the second meeting . |
| 6 | I felt revolted by them and began to sleep in the hall , dragging a pillow and a wool blanket off the bed and leaving the room to them , in the hope that they would understand my anger , that they would no longer stay till the early hours of the morning , stepping over me as I lay asleep , leaving overflowing ashtrays and empty glasses and cans and bottles strewn about the floor . |
| 7 | Westward , westward till the barbarous brine |
| 8 | ‘ This declaration is not a blind bit of good to the workers who have to take over the jobs of those who have emigrated , ’ and ‘ Why do we have to wait till the next central committee meeting ? ’ were other grumbles . |
| 9 | None of it is local stone : there is a tradition , perhaps connected with the Venetians or , later , the Turks , who successively occupied Crete till the late nineteenth century , of importing these stones and making jewellery . |
| 10 | He turned up the first day of the term , picked up his grant , bought a guitar with it and then disappeared ‘ till the start of the next term and that term 's grant cheque . |
| 11 | The two girls would not be back till the following weekend . |
| 12 | We gave him whiskey and had n't to tie him up till the morning and that was only for his own good . ’ |
| 13 | There 's only an hour till the Mass . ’ |
| 14 | Like I say , she do n't usually come back till the morning . |
| 15 | ‘ Let him hould his hoult till the day is over , anyway , ’ Joe said . |
| 16 | EVER SINCE mankind first began to till the soil , weeds have been practising their unique brand of herbal terrorism . |
| 17 | All were unheated , congested , and meagrely fed , and the miracle was that a disease-free , self-governing , microcosmic version of male England emerged and survived — not without tensions and tragedies and an element of anti-Semitism — till the end of the war . |
| 18 | ‘ And it 'll all wait till the morning . |
| 19 | They 're not going to get it till the end of the notice period , which is twelve months , but we need the cash . |
| 20 | Aid , given on condition that it is spent on genuine development , can till the soil for home-grown growth . |
| 21 | Thomas was two years younger than I and I never met him till the year I left St. Paul 's School ( 1894 ) . |
| 22 | But the distinctions drawn by English law were , till the passing of the Property Acts , which came into force on 1 January 1926 , founded , not so much on the nature of the subject matter , as upon the historical accidents in the development of the English law of property . |
| 23 | Secondly , until 1926 , at law ( as opposed to equity ) no limited interests in chattels personal could be created — the notion of estates had no application to chattels personal till the Law of Property Act 1925 made it possible to create an entailed interest in them . |
| 24 | The man for the crisis proved to be Downton , who stayed with Gower till the end , which came when Botham declared on 302 for 6 ; they were helped by Marshall not being able to bowl , but it was still a fine piece of concentration of which Ken Barrington would have been proud . |
| 25 | He dies on Christmas Eve , and they do n't come for the body till the day after Boxing Day . |
| 26 | He never drank till the evening , but then he indulged in beer and gossip . |
| 27 | The Times published a short report of how they died : ‘ Five German nuns … clasped hands and were drowned together , the chief sister , a gaunt woman six foot high , calling out loudly and often , ‘ 0 Christ , come quickly ! ’ till the end came . |
| 28 | ‘ Was n't it ages till the All Clear ? ’ |
| 29 | No , I 'm just a Jock — Guardsman Willoughby — and a Jock I look like staying till the end of the war . ’ |
| 30 | Without warning , without any provocation , Jacob is attacked , and ‘ a man ’ wrestles with him till the breaking of the day . |