Example sentences of "[noun prp] until " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Gascoigne found it difficult to escape the attentions of Walter Bonacina until he produced his headed goal four minutes from the end , he did not lose his temper . |
| 2 | Since August 12th Mr Hussein has repeated like a gramophone the refrain that he will not budge from Kuwait until Israel gives up the West Bank and Gaza . |
| 3 | Rivalries among the rebel movements , however , had delayed an assault on Mogadishu until the three main groups agreed in August 1990 to co-operate to overthrow the Siyad Barre regime . |
| 4 | In December 1991 the IAEA withheld approval of the sale of a Chinese reactor to Syria until an agreement was reached . |
| 5 | The majority of the rebels were of the Tutsi ethnic group , who had ruled Rwanda until a bloody revolt by the majority Hutu in 1959 forced thousands to take refuge in neighbouring states . |
| 6 | Elias Hrawi , the West Beirut-based ( Christian ) President , reportedly responded by saying that there would be no deal with Aoun until he gave up the presidential palace at Baabda and the Army command at Yarzeh . |
| 7 | I 'm not signing or changing anything Richard until we have exchanged contracts |
| 8 | No Richard because the whole thing can fall through when we have our survey done it might show a defect or something , we might pull out , when they have their survey done it might show a defect so they might pull out , you do n't do anything Richard until the contracts have been exchanged , then you can start saying right I think that 's , that 's , every thing 's definite |
| 9 | Mental illness was a foreign concept to Aborigines until the arrival of whites in Australia . |
| 10 | His marriage to Osthryth , the sister of King Ecgfrith , inhibited him from bestowing royal favour on Wilfrid until Archbishop Theodore engineered a reconciliation of offended parties in 686 . |
| 11 | Bennetts came here on holiday from New Zealand 20 years ago and never returned , ending up working for McLaren boss Ron Dennis until he founded WSR 10 years ago . |
| 12 | She decided to do nothing else by way of wooing Lucy until there was real time , time for them to be alone . |
| 13 | It is clear that Coenwulf did not dare to risk ecclesiastical sanction by proceeding against Eadberht until the papal position on the matter was made quite clear . |
| 14 | Profitable exports were handled through the port of Berwick-upon-Tweed until , in the middle of the fifteenth century , the kings themselves saw the advantages of taking over pastures for their own flocks , storing the wool at Selkirk and then shipping it out via Leith . |
| 15 | Yassir Abd Rabbuh , deputy secretary-general of the DFLP until his dismissal in April [ see p. 38167 ] , was elected secretary-general of the new more moderate , non-marxist wing , which was close to Arafat 's Fatah movement . |
| 16 | For a time the Macedonian ruler Samuilo held power over parts of Bosnia-Hercegovina until he was defeated by the Byzantine emperor Basil in 1014 . |
| 17 | I sat like a Hector until I suddenly remembered my stomach and began noisily to vomit . |
| 18 | Local gossips noted that her husband , Darnley , did not appear in Jedburgh until the crisis was over ; and then , incensed by the attendant nobles ' cool reception , he stayed only one night and possibly did not even visit Mary . |
| 19 | Middleton said he had not arrived in Jedburgh until after the crime had been committed and was being made the scapegoat . |
| 20 | Their unusual width prevented two cars passing Albert Square Fleetwood until this curve was relaid , delaying their entry into service until the winter season 1928 . |
| 21 | In power , it never occurred to him , just as it did not occur to Mr Gorbachev until it was too late , that it was the system itself that was rotten through and through . |
| 22 | They came home , packed their bags , left Wales for good and set up in Brussels until they found a new house . |
| 23 | The Book was found buried in the ground almost three months later , and presumably remained at Kells until it was brought to Dublin and presented to Trinity College by Henry Jones , Bishop of Meath , some time after the year 1661 . |
| 24 | I suggest that the best aid that could be given to East Timor would be an arms embargo on Indonesia until an independent United Nations inquiry has been held into the slaughter of many defenceless men , women and children by the Indonesian army . |
| 25 | Inchoate anger seethed on in the Weald until it exploded in the autumn of 1645 when the ‘ Clubmen ’ appeared , basically a ‘ confederacy with the vulgar multitude ’ of tenant farmers . |
| 26 | Bedford25pts Waterloo4 BEDFORD , bailing furiously below the Second Division Plimsoll line , were in deep trouble at Goldstone Road on Saturday until , in the 35th minute , Paul Hackett , the Waterloo hooker , was sent off for stamping . |
| 27 | The police were called , my client was arrested and was detained at the police station from about midnight on the Saturday until eventually he appeared before the court about four o'clock on the Monday afternoon . |
| 28 | GRAEME SOUNESS may yet realise his lifelong ambition of leading out an FA Cup Final team despite entering hospital yesterday for a triple by-pass heart operation which will keep him away from Anfield until the start of next season . |
| 29 | The acting captain Terry Butcher , bloodied but unbowed , gave a particularly stirring performance that night and was ably complemented by Des Walker until the Nottingham Forest defender almost gave the match away with an aberrant pass back . |
| 30 | Plaatjes , who has given up his South African citizenship but can not compete for the United States until he has completed his five-year residential period next year , is the second-fastest man in the race behind Yakov Tolstikov , but his recent form is better than that of the Siberian runner . |