Example sentences of "[noun pl] until it [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 What 's more , he had also learned that he must ignore the first playing of the tune , and wait 15 minutes until it played again at the end of the programme — the dog would look up quizzically at the sound of the familiar music but stay still , apparently too smart to respond to an obvious false alarm .
2 They became increasingly sleepy for the first four days until it became almost impossible for the experimenters to keep them awake .
3 From this false start , their marriage had many more vicissitudes until it has now reached a point where there now exists between them a thinly disguised mutual antipathy .
4 Prometheus tried to rival a God called Zeus by stealing fire from heaven then giving it to Earth which is similar to Frankenstein 's actions because he stole the secret of life and proposed to give this to humans until it went disastrously wrong .
5 On Oct. 1 India 's Supreme Court ordered the government to delay its implementation of the Mandal Commission recommendations until it had fully completed a list of the castes it intended to target .
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