Example sentences of "[noun sg] until it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the back of the prostate is adjacent to the anterior wall of the rectum , and by gently massaging the gland from inside the rectum , a bead of fluid can be expressed and ‘ milked ’ along the urethra until it appears at the urethral meatus . |
| 2 | Boil the wine rapidly in a small saucepan until it has reduced to approx 1 × 15ml/tbsp . |
| 3 | heat this mixture over a low flame until it melts , stirring well . |
| 4 | This may involve a narrowing of consciousness , a division of awareness into a more- and a less-focal area , a widening of consciousness until it has no especial object , or a flickering of consciousness when steady attending is for some reason precluded . |
| 5 | 3/Slowly darkening the area , continuing to smudge and highlight with the eraser again and again , I work the piece until it looks right . |
| 6 | Slowly darkening the area , continuing to smudge and highlight with the eraser again and again , I work the piece until it looks right . |
| 7 | The Snotling base fights at full effect until it has taken 3 wounds when it is removed . |
| 8 | Thereafter it hammers away with great effect until it has excavated a narrow tunnel as much as three feet long . |
| 9 | no amendment shall have effect until it has been approved by the Inland Revenue . |
| 10 | After a hasty shower , she chose pleat-waisted tan cords and a cream checked shirt , knotted a thick Aran sweater round her neck and brushed her hair with suppressed violence until it shone in a red-gold cloud down her back . |
| 11 | It 's no good until it 's written down . |
| 12 | They 're they 're the whatsername So I 'm sending a couple of pound until it 's paid up . |
| 13 | Push the pipe into the fitting until it meets the internal stop . |
| 14 | Fig13 Just before setting off : the rig is pulled across the body towards the wind until it feels balanced . |
| 15 | Gaynor Harris and her husband Charles Bullworthy have purchased the Southampton office , which Ms Harris set up in 1980 and ran as a sole practice until it merged with A E Hook & Co , an old established firm on the Isle of Wight . |
| 16 | Billy Sullivan had decided that he was going to own his own gymnasium one day and the idea grew in his mind until it became an obsession . |
| 17 | The voice spread like ink through blotting paper and seeped across his mind until it reached the nerve that knew it to be Bella 's . |
| 18 | How can an electorate be expected to make up its mind until it has seen all the smears ? |
| 19 | It continued to lose weight until it caught the attentioin of a neighbour who reported to the RSPCA that winter . |
| 20 | Better to gamble that a private collector would keep the car until it became rare enough to warrant accepting it , if it were offered later . |
| 21 | In a desperate effort to escape , Pc Whitehouse reversed the car until it crashed . |
| 22 | As the deep velvet baritone quietly affirmed ‘ Und morgen wird die Sonne wieder scheinen … ’ , a hawk moth , disturbed at the window pane , raced towards the bulb of a reading-lamp and dashed itself against the light until it fell exhausted on to the table . |
| 23 | He read the letters interlaced with hearts ; he lit a cigarette , exhaled slowly , watching the smoke nudge across the roof until it found its way out into the sky through the circle in the roof like a full moon ; he lifted the door open , and looked across the olive grove . |
| 24 | He said he was sorry for not visiting more often , sorry for not being there , for not , for not , for not , these omissions of his , these confessions , they rose into his closed mouth until it seemed that he might choke , they were jumbled up , dislocated , like old bones in a crypt , but he knew they fitted together , he knew they would form a skeleton where he could hang the flesh and muscle of his guilt . |
| 25 | He started to kick the fence until it hurt , the tears running down his face , safely alone amongst the sidings . |
| 26 | To surmount this problem , the elephants started tearing down trees , which they laid on the fence until it collapsed , allowing them to step over it . |
| 27 | The dogs had followed the line of the fence until it ended abruptly , whereupon they had glimpsed many more man-things up ahead . |
| 28 | There followed a period of uncertainty until it found itself with new occupants Savory and Sons . |
| 29 | The draft constitution had been submitted to the House of Representatives on June 4 [ see p. 38278 ] but could not become law until it had been approved by referendum , according to President Joseph Momoh . |
| 30 | ‘ Julie ’ is a classy acoustic rumble until it breaks into a Highland swing midway through when Callum Williams adds the skirl of the pipes . |