Example sentences of "[vb pp] until it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it flies away it may be Pursued until it has left the vicinity — as is happening with this beleaguered golden eagle being chased by a group of aggressive ravens . |
| 2 | In the hands of a great designer — Mondrian , de Staël , Rothko , Turner , Klee — the central void can be stressed until it appears to radiate energy . |
| 3 | It was shimmering , incandescent , as the colours deepened and the long blue-black tail unfurled and stiffened until it gained the strength to fly . |
| 4 | This little bubble of unreality has since expanded until it enfolds the entire Paisley Park complex in Minneapolis , with all the technology and all his minions at Prince 's beck and call . |
| 5 | As communications were revolutionised , the labour market , especially for men with special skills , expanded until it comprised the entire industrial world . |
| 6 | As our awareness of ‘ the environment ’ has gown , so has the meaning given to the term expanded until it has come to signify the whole of the non-cultural world . |
| 7 | Bronze , an alloy of mainly copper and tin , could be polished until it looked almost like gold , and the technique of making it had been known in Britain for centuries . |
| 8 | Perhaps it just grew and matured until it took in all their emotions , but his hands began to smooth her back and shoulders , until in the end his fingers were threaded through her hair and his big , warm hands were holding her steady while he kissed her with mesmerising thoroughness . |
| 9 | Once this conventional world had been established , it was easily recreated until it became traditional . |
| 10 | The noise swelled until it had the jarring monotony of traffic . |
| 11 | As the driving weight causes the drum to rotate , the mercury is raised until it counter-balances the weight , which can then fall slowly as the mercury flows through the dividing walls . |
| 12 | The gun is still being evaluated , and wo n't be introduced until it 's been given Home Office clearance . |
| 13 | All it needs to do therefore is to stay with its arms out in one place , photosynthesize , and avoid being eaten until it has managed to reproduce . |
| 14 | Her hair , for all she was eight months and one week pregnant , had that day been coiffeured , lacquered and backcombed until it stuck out all around her head . |
| 15 | This is illustrated in Fig. 1 where a household , which at first is paid an income of £100 per week , is assumed to spend all of its income in a steady stream until , at the end of each week , it has nothing left until it receives its next £100 . |
| 16 | Early in 1921 the ex-absolutists of the NCF established the No More War Movement , which had 3000 members in 1927 and continued to play a role on the pacifist left until it merged into the Peace pledge Union ten years later . |
| 17 | In this respect the operation was a failure ; Schwarzkopf made it clear that the air phase of the war would be continued until it had achieved its objectives , and that the timing and location of any land-based offensive would be in accordance with allied war plans and would be made by the US President . |
| 18 | The solution will bubble up immediately and sprinkling should be continued until it overflows to drain , if fitted , or reaches a stable level at the lip of the well . |
| 19 | The various elements combined until it seemed to Ace that a choir was whispering to her . |
| 20 | If a driveage your main driveage is found to be above the legal limit after a series of checks , in theory it should be shut until it 's sorted out . |
| 21 | It is hard to explain this unless , in the subject 's brain , the representation of one shape is rotated until it matches the representation of the other . |
| 22 | This procedure is repeated until it produces no change ; usually two or three passes through the data ( iterations ) are sufficient . |
| 23 | But he may have waited until it began to be dusk . |
| 24 | The idea of ‘ care ’ has been carefully nurtured until it has become the hallmark of solid acceptability , the key to political creditworthiness , and the disability industry 's SDI designed to shield their programmes of social control from criticism . |
| 25 | As people tried and failed , the cash on offer accumulated until it reached $17,000 on the day Ed went on court . |
| 26 | By the argument a principle is pressed to an absurdity , as a bubble is blown until it bursts . |
| 27 | It is then cooked until it becomes gelatinous , releasing the starch from its tough coating . |
| 28 | The injustice is that the donkey is beaten until it collapses and then it is beaten for collapsing . |
| 29 | ( Notice that we have not included the possibility of uninitialised variables within normal form programs , since no bound variable is ever read until it has been input to . ) |