Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [noun sg] until it [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 Once , when an alarm became peculiarly insistent , the Maggot thumped the instrument panel until it stopped .
2 Keeping the noisy engine as muted as possible , Yanto negotiated the dirt path until it terminated suddenly at the base of the sea wall .
3 Without any regard for his own safety , Andrews climbed onto a wing of the blazing plane , and kicked frantically at the toughened perspex of the cockpit canopy until it shattered , then dragged out the semi-conscious pilot .
4 But when asked which tree had less , or to make one of two trees have less , children again chose the tree with more , and they added to the target tree until it had a greater amount than the other .
5 In the morning the water would run , run fast and sweet along a mains pipe until it met with an obstruction and the water would eat away at the mass that blocked it .
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