Example sentences of "until it [be] time " in BNC.

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1 It 's an easy walk up a tarmac estate road to the south-east of the hotel , which gently gains height until it 's time to strike up the hillside towards Munro number one .
2 It seems also to have a special magnetism for their children , who look forward to spending all day playing video games until it 's time to try and get served by a barman who does n't notice they are 15 and only four feet ten .
3 She snoozes until it 's time to be fed ,
4 Obviously , you 'll be hiding it in a corner until it 's time to make your move .
5 Day Eight : You are at leisure until it 's time to leave the Hotelship and catch your scheduled flight back to London Heathrow from Dresden airport .
6 And when you 've done that go home and stay there until it 's time for the evening performance . ’
7 After breakfast , we go back to our rooms and get locked up until it 's time for dinner .
8 Thank you we 'll just put it on the little table here , look for a bit until it 's time to put it on .
9 Windowboxes and other containers often begin to run out of flower power towards the end of summer , but it is usually possible to give them a boost to sustain interest until it is time to plant them up for a spring display .
10 The horse is kept locked up in a stable until it is time to be exhibited for the potential buyer or judge — or mare owner if the horse is a stallion standing at stud .
11 Nina , on the other hand , parties all night , often until it is time to catch the 9 a.m. train to London .
12 until it is time to do something with them .
13 This keeps him happy until it is time to go to the nursery by which time she has cleared up the mess .
14 Dressings generally should be left undisturbed until it is time for suture removal unless :
15 The welts , the abrasions and the black eyes get starker , more livid , until it is time for the women to return , in an ecstasy of distress , to the men who will suddenly heal them .
16 ‘ We were very happy together until it was time for the operation . ’
17 We avoided each other all evening until it was time for the Open University programmes .
18 They left the coast after they had harvested any catch-crops and grazed the stubble , to arrive in the south for the date harvest , feeding their animals on fodder-dates and forage crops until it was time to return north .
19 Until it was time to retire , the guests occupied themselves variously with chess , gramophone records and a comparison of their ailments .
20 Woosnam feared that he would miss the cut , then have to sit around watching re-runs on TV of The Lucille Ball Show until it was time to help slip the green jacket on the new champion .
21 At home I might have fed it to the fish , but here I felt sorry for it and watched until it was time to move on .
22 She had her own chair brought to that particular paddock right at the start of the day and never moved until it was time to go home .
23 Between them they started to cover the shelter until it was time tor Tom to leave for a meeting in the village hall .
24 He returned to his boy and the two of them continued with their play until it was time to go home for tea .
25 Then she went out and joined the others in the playground until it was time for the lesson to begin .
26 He would work until it was time to go home , on the new warhead design that would replace the free-fall WE-177 bomb with an air-launched cruise system .
27 The ring I 'd bought was placed on a plum-coloured cushion made of velvet and winked at us until it was time to put it on Gill 's finger .
28 Then I went back to my panel-picture and worked until it was time to start the supper .
29 I 'd put money in their pockets and their favourite possession by their side and then the others would wait by the death-tent until it was time to bury 'em . "
30 He had some notion of hiding in the ruins until it was time to go to the theatre .
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