Example sentences of "until she " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ophelia is often ignored for audition material simply because she does n't seem to have much in the way of a sustained speech until she goes mad . |
| 2 | ‘ Lisa was my best friend until she and Andy started going out together — we even shared a flat together at one stage . |
| 3 | Her parents had done birthday parties on a grand scale until she was about thirteen . |
| 4 | Susan did not know how she felt about this until she saw that he had painted himself and herself half-way up or half-way down , looking up or down at their reflections in the water . |
| 5 | She set off , passing a field of cows on her left , until she reached a gate to a grassy track . |
| 6 | The two of them tickling staid Janey , one on each side until she could n't help laughing , and the seven peas rolled away . |
| 7 | She then places her hand in his and with his help gradually rises onto pointe until she poses triumphantly in attitude . |
| 8 | Esther is keeping my letter until she hears of more complaints about faulty harnesses , leads or dog toys . |
| 9 | Taking his curtain calls after a successful speech , he drew her to him by the hand and entwined his arms with hers until she gently shook him off , whereupon he enjoyed his triumph for a while manfully alone , until he again resorted to his wife Glenys , going to fetch her , leading her again by the hand , and holding her by the waist . |
| 10 | The applicant was employed by a company from 1959 to 1987 until she was dismissed by reason of redundancy when she was a few months over 60 . |
| 11 | In his London flat there is only an old Roberts radio his mother owned until she died in 1973 , aged more than ninety . |
| 12 | However when the party broke up and he offered her a lift home , she was quick to negotiate secretly with her hostess for her bike to remain unmentioned in the stairwell until she came back the next day to collect it . |
| 13 | Fenna , by all the ancient laws , could not come to her until she invited him ; but he could , and did , will her to invite him , and the will of dragons is strong . |
| 14 | The park , unlikely though it might seem , was not a job , not a political ideology , not a way of filling in the weary hours until she was old enough to retire , not even something to spite her mother with once and for all while she accepted everything else from her . |
| 15 | It was n't until she had successfully launched The Body Shop on to the Unlisted Securities Market that she began to examine the direction in which the business was going and to start articulating its mission in a definitive way . |
| 16 | His whole life seemed to hang on each letter in Annie 's hand , his eyes following it until she handed it into the crowd or placed it on a pile to one side and then he would fix on the next letter and the next . |
| 17 | Until she won their trust their manners were deferential , identical to the old-fashioned manners of her own youth . |
| 18 | But initially she could n't think how to raise the money for it — until she hit on the idea of Greener Gifts . |
| 19 | Her mother , Frances , stayed with him until she had produced the son he so desperately wanted , but when Diana was just six years old her mother left home . |
| 20 | Her first baby had been born with a genetic disease and had died , but the disease had not been diagnosed until she was pregnant with her second child . |
| 21 | It meant she did n't know whether the foetus carried the disease until she was twenty-one weeks pregnant , by which time abortion is very difficult both physically and emotionally . |
| 22 | ‘ I was looking after her chickens for her until she came home , ’ Liam had cried in the chapel . |
| 23 | ‘ You 'll have to wait now until she 's gone , ’ Lily said . |
| 24 | It burned and raged through her like a fever , until she began to imagine that she was no longer herself , no longer human at all , but the heart of fire , the savage tooth , the embodiment of the very essence of pain . |
| 25 | ‘ There is a letter somewhere , ’ Sister Cooney searched until she found it and handed it to him . |
| 26 | The sight of her body , poised above him as she stretched and leaned , distracted him , and he stood to watch her , until she turned with a questioning half-smile to hand down another bundle . |
| 27 | The conflict is played out for the last time in The Red Shoes ( 1948 ) , where the ballerina played by Moira Shearer initially lives unproblematically for her dancing , until she falls in love with a composer . |
| 28 | She said she was beaten almost daily with a horse whip or flex until she bled , forced to sleep on the floor and kept without food , sometimes for two or three days . |
| 29 | His wife was slammed against a wall , sexually threatened and ordered to stand with her arms raised over her head until she collapsed . |
| 30 | The girl who this year became the youngest Wightman Cup player in history is technically not allowed to join the professional tour until she is 14 , in March . |