Example sentences of "until [pron] come to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let my lord pass on before his servant , and I will lead on slowly , according to the pace of the cattle which are before me and according to the pace of the children , until I come to my lord in Seir . ’ |
| 2 | On to the main road , which runs through the island and , apart from the sheep eking out a sparse living on the dead heather , there is little moving until I come to the head of Whalfirth , a long arm of the sea which pushes in from the west until it nearly cuts the island in half . |
| 3 | In so far as this decision approves a requirement made under section 7(4) to provide a specimen of blood simpliciter , without making any reference to the alternative of urine , it has been effectively overruled by later cases and I shall defer further consideration of it until I come to those cases . |
| 4 | Money 's not brilliant but sometimes I see my name on the front page and I feel almost successful for a while , until I come to something like this . ’ |
| 5 | But until I come to you , you should not try to come to me . ’ |
| 6 | I find a box of matches , then follow the piping up the wall from the dead gas-ring until I come to the stopcock that turns the supply on . |
| 7 | Their veteran prop Kevin Ward commented : ‘ I never knew there was so much intense rivalry between the two clubs until I came to St Helens . |
| 8 | now I thought I knew what that word meant until I came to the assembly . |
| 9 | I went well beyond the carob until I came to strands of wire running through the trees , at the edge of the inland bluff , the eastern limit of Bourani . |
| 10 | I 've knocked about a bit in the last few years I suppose , but I was always restless until I came to a very ordinary house in a rather dingy London suburb , where there was a large and interesting family who had been in the same place for a long time . |
| 11 | I had to go about north-north-east , and if I hit the coast in the wrong place I could go first one way , then the other , until I came to the shingle where I had left the dinghy . |
| 12 | I never understood until I came to Taipei and we met again , when I started to realise why I 'd always reacted so strongly to you . |
| 13 | Nervously , I moved forward , fumbling round the battlements until I came to a protruding wooden pole . |
| 14 | Unconcerned by Peck 's manner , Noah replied , ‘ Nor I of you until I came to Oxfordshire to attend the wedding of my daughter . |
| 15 | I had no idea university politics were so cut-throat until I came to Oxford . |
| 16 | I waded out over the shallows until I came to them , and gathered the ones I could , looking up from my harvest as Esmerelda and kite struck out for the North Sea . |
| 17 | She read on , about Jesus being born in Bethlehem and about King Herod and did not stop until she came to the line about Rachel weeping for her children . |
| 18 | As soon as she reached the open deer-park she ran , and she hardly paused until she came to the broad track that sloped down to the marsh , smiling and vivid green in the late afternoon sunshine . |
| 19 | Meryl tucked the papers under her arm and decided to walk around the boundary until she came to an alternative entrance . |
| 20 | She had never mentioned living anywhere but in Hove , until she came to London to live with Margaret . |
| 21 | By then it was agreed that Karen would do temporary work until she came to Hillmarden House in November . |
| 22 | Head down , she ran through the wood , past the beech tree and the stile , not stopping until she came to Dormer Cottage . |
| 23 | All went well until she came to a small boy in the second row . |
| 24 | And she brushed past him and continued down the road until she came to a place where two paths crossed and there was a little clearing . |
| 25 | She walked through the streets until she came to the litter of a part of town which teetered unbecomingly between abject decline and frenzied development . |
| 26 | But , pushing him aside , she gathered her cloak around her , made so bravely from those two old plush tablecloths , and began to walk downhill — the direction she happened to be facing — until she came to St Jude 's churchyard where she sat on a gravestone , her head in her hands , and shivered . |
| 27 | She dived down the first alleyway , until she came to the window beside the white door with the red strip on the step . |
| 28 | She waited silently behind the door , her face flushed , half excited , half disappointed that he did n't take it further by knocking for admittance , until she came to her senses . |
| 29 | Then she swam along the bank until she came to the old pontoon . |
| 30 | She ran along the line , stumbling over the planks , until she came to the old pit and the line of empty skips . |