Example sentences of "with the [noun] until [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flying in the wind to cheers and raucous pipe music , the banner does not halt under the national flag , but carries on up the flagpole , vying with the tricolour until it covers it triumphantly . |
| 2 | So the wise woman , taking a whip in her hand , seated herself on a small carpet and lashed it with the whip until it rose in the air and carried her to the forest . |
| 3 | He took the mob-cap from her head , impatient with the pins until her hair fell past her shoulders like a black silk curtain . |
| 4 | Then he fiddled with the controls until he had produced a clear sound that was audible even over the wind . |
| 5 | A ward nurse or member of the theatre staff remains with the patient until he is anaesthetized — this is for the safety and reassurance of the patient . |
| 6 | Omar assured us that the Somalis he had engaged would wait contentedly with the camels until we turned up . |
| 7 | ‘ I will not back any political talks with the South until I have evidence of genuine goodwill over the International Investments affair . |
| 8 | When the young arrive they often remain with the parents until they are fully , or nearly fully , grown . |
| 9 | They fry can be left with the parents until they attain anything up to one inch in length , but it is often advisable to remove the parents long before this . |
| 10 | What is envisaged is that at least the above six mentioned countries will form a currency union by the end of the decade , while the remaining EC countries enter into an EMS type relationship with the union until they have converged sufficiently to become union members . |
| 11 | The man 's so sure of himself he pressed me , would have me reason it out with the boy until I was satisfied . |
| 12 | She wrenched the lid off the biscuit tin and tipped her mother 's letters into the range , stuffing them well down with the poker until there was nothing left of them but black ash . |
| 13 | A wooden Scotty-dog with a waggly , leather jointed body nipped my finger , and he snatched it from me and hurled it on to the fire , hitting it repeatedly with the poker until it disintegrated . |
| 14 | He had remained with the company until his eyesight began to fail in the early 1930s ; he had died during the war . |
| 15 | They seem to have been in some sort of vassal relationship with the Dzhungars until they broke away in the 1650s and 1660s . |
| 16 | After more skirmishes , a compromise was reached which allowed for Liesl to stay with the Wynnes until her real mother was able to care for her . |
| 17 | The trouble was , Alexandra thought , walking into her kitchen wrapped in a bath sheet , the trouble was that you could n't really go with the flow until you 'd had time to work out which way it was going . |
| 18 | Experiment with the machine until you get the feel . |
| 19 | ‘ … but always there has been a hidden canker , which has grown with the years until it is stifling me . ’ |
| 20 | The Brigade has been in Normandy since the 6th June in constant contact with the enemy until we reached the Seine . |
| 21 | She turned and lunged into the crumbling bank with the torch until it lodged and held still , focused upon the motionless bulk below . |
| 22 | Zita Hirschhom stayed with the hostel until it closed in 1948 . |
| 23 | El Cid 's remarkable achievements were recorded in poem and song , and grew with the telling until he became Spain 's national hero . |
| 24 | They had stayed up there with the princes until it had become dark , early , of course , in Egypt . |
| 25 | As Ingram and Redpath note , ‘ Fire out ’ was common usage for ‘ infect with a venereal disease ’ , so the line means that ‘ the poet will not know whether the Friend has slept with the woman until he sees whether he has contracted venereal disease ’ . |
| 26 | She is also determined to prevent osteoporosis , having seen a friend confined to a wheelchair with the disease until she started HRT . |
| 27 | ‘ I came to my senses , ’ she said , economising with the truth until she felt more capable of handling it with any degree of calm . |
| 28 | ‘ People should not read too much into every statement , but I now need to know what everybody is thinking , and I will not discuss anything with the media until I have spoken to the necessary people . ’ |
| 29 | The indications are that the crew acted courageously in staying with the aircraft until it was safe from civilian habitation . |