Example sentences of "[pers pn] until it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There remains the question whether , as the applicant contends , the only proper course for the district judge was to postpone the trials of the Barclays ( Asia ) and West L.B. matters until after the conclusion of the B.M.F.L. trial , or at least postpone them until it had become clear whether , and if so when and in what shape , the B.M.F.L. case would proceed . |
| 2 | Nothing would get the stuff off him until it burned itself out . |
| 3 | The fog lay like white wool against the glass , and we knew we could not try to follow him until it cleared . |
| 4 | And then , when he could n't step back any further , he would walk forward , watching the shadow shrink before him until it ended up as a small and pathetic figure beneath his feet . |
| 5 | I could see it running in her until it overflowed , and as fast as it ran more grief took its place until the lane and the streams ran with grief and all the valley was the colour of grief . |
| 6 | He moved his hand and touched her breast through the robe she wore , found the nipple and stroked it until it hardened and she stirred . |
| 7 | And yet , on this fevered night … he stared at the heavy , handsome head , looked at it until it became a strange thing to him , a feeling of stone , a sight he saw from another part of the room , this unbodied head reflected more truly in the mirror than in the live skull itself … |
| 8 | He lifted a sock from the floor and pushed it into her mouth , then held a silk blouse out by its cuffs and spun it until it became a rope to hold the gag secure . |
| 9 | The refrigerator was easy , you just opened the door and put food in it until it looked like an igloo inside , and then a pair of hands which might or might not be your own came along and cleared out the ice so that you could use it again . |
| 10 | Victor breathed on the glass in his hand , and buffed it until it gleamed . |
| 11 | It had hardened slightly and she moistened it with icy water , kneading it until it shed a film of white liquid . |
| 12 | Equally it might be argued that since withdrawal from NATO was the last card he could play in his campaign against American influence , short of defecting from the West altogether , there were good reasons not to play it until it seemed likely to be effective or became absolutely necessary . |
| 13 | Harry watched it until it had turned into Emlyn Square , then began walking unsteadily in the same direction . |
| 14 | and we , we would ask of that , but the next point and erm , is this my Lord erm at the moment erm the negotiations are erm proceeding in relation to the house , about which we have heard evidence , er , we could not properly buy it until it had been investigated by the court of protection and there was approval of that , and er it will be necessary for er consideration to be given as to how it should be purchased , in practical terms , firstly your Lordship has erm awarded a figure of seventy one thousand pounds , then there is the eighty thousand pounds on the existing house which takes one up to a hundred and fifty or thereabouts , and one sees that the special damages and interest thereon comes to something over fifty two thousand pounds to which these er parents will be entitled in the normal way , and if they were to apply , they might do and apply , that would go a long way to purchasing it and the court of protection , if it approved that might take the view that it would be fair to take something out of the notional aspect of damages for loss of earnings , because after all the plaintiff would have spent his earnings for housing and so on in the future , that , that is the sort of problems that now have to be tackled er what , what we would respect and suggest is er simply that there is liberty to apply erm . |
| 15 | Ballesteros took world golf by the scruff of the neck and shook it until it reformed into patterns more nearly to his liking . |
| 16 | Someone had dried it out , unfolded and smoothed it until it resembled a sheet of grubby brown parchment . |
| 17 | Almost in tears , Phoebe took her breast in her hand and squeezed and banged at it until it hurt . |
| 18 | By rotating it until it cut out the polarised light , the Vikings could locate the dark polarised band . |
| 19 | The guard , I thought , and paid no more attention to it until it stopped opposite my window and spoke . |
| 20 | And she 'd strained at it , strained at it until it snapped . |
| 21 | I used to play with it until it licked my hand and took the skin off . |
| 22 | Did people expect it to be liquified and work on it until it happened , or was it just an accidental discovery ? |
| 23 | Eliot observed how he would take a word ‘ and squeeze and squeeze it until it yielded a full juice of meaning which we would never suppose any word to possess ’ . |
| 24 | Apparently this new method had been tried out down south and it seemed ideal for the temperamental Orkney climate because you harvested when it was green and then you put it in a pit and packed it with a tractor and then you left it until it turned black and rotted and then you cut it up in chunks and fed it to the cattle . |
| 25 | The Capellans , indulgent as ever , had trusted them in ours until it became obvious the same hideous trick was about to be played again . |
| 26 | The road ran straight ahead of us until it disappeared in the mist , except that at the man 's feet it was gone and there was a gap some fifty metres or so wide through which a brown torrent ran so high and in such furious waves that it almost lipped the broken macadam where the road had been swept away . |
| 27 | Our collection of children 's books and toys grew with us and outgrew us until it dominated our lives . |