Example sentences of "until they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her daughters have however been contacted so I agree to keep her company until they arrive . |
| 2 | In addition , such schools have to be self-financing until they have an adequate complement of pupils . |
| 3 | Add the kilo of sugar and stir water , sugar and wort until they are more or less dissolved . |
| 4 | The method of preparation is to macerate the juncea or nigra seeds in a vinegar or verjuice solution until they have swollen . |
| 5 | ‘ Until they can find you a council flat . ’ |
| 6 | Hedging plants are usually cut back to half their height after planting to encourage bushiness , but some conifers are best left unpruned until they reach the desired height . |
| 7 | Their elongated stems with few small leaves strive upwards until they find sufficient light , and this can be seen when sun-loving species are planted in shady parts of the garden . |
| 8 | We could purchase our own houses while they lived in police colonies , denied the privilege of house purchase until they had fifteen years ' service ; this classified them as ‘ peasants , serfs , living in the feudal world of tithed cottages ’ . |
| 9 | Dionne went for the outlaw type , or so she said , then mothered and civilised them until they were unrecognisable , and when her dream of civilised and raunchy equality went out the slammed door , there she was alone again , smoking a little more than usual , drinking a little more than necessary and swearing herself to celibacy until the next sulky brow slouched into view and stole her hopeful heart away . |
| 10 | Next , let your legs separate until they are splayed as wide as you can tolerate . |
| 11 | practise these stance changes until they happen smoothly and quickly . |
| 12 | Only by going there in thousands , outnumbering his tenants , talking to them , until they feel their power , and disarm their masters . |
| 13 | Then they were plunging into shadow between the woods of Birnam , hauled along like a leaf on a mill-race , and the hedges and trees never ceased to rock backwards past their staring eyes or the horses to gallop onwards with shoulders working and manes streaming until they were in sight of Perth . |
| 14 | The point of the experiments was this : strong social pressure was being put on these children to agree to a realist answer ( they were not allowed out of the room until they had an answer ! ) and if their usual tendency to interpret questions phenomenally is a trivial and weak effect then this social pressure should obliterate it . |
| 15 | Ten days on the ocean gave him a few chances to visit the cabins of single women , but until they arrived in New York , there were no places to escape once the liaison ended , however passionately , half-heartedly , or ephemerally it had begun . |
| 16 | Slowly raise your arms out to the sides until they are horizontal . |
| 17 | Slowly raise the arms apart until they are horizontal ( keep the elbows slightly bent ) . |
| 18 | Keeping the legs straight , raise them until they are almost vertical and then lower them until they are almost touching the floor . |
| 19 | Keeping the legs straight , raise them until they are almost vertical and then lower them until they are almost touching the floor . |
| 20 | Next , raise the heels until they are as high as possible without moving the balls of the feet . |
| 21 | People do not have to pay any of their charge until they receive this revised bill . |
| 22 | The dinosaurs can have Scafell until they die out , then if anyone can still be bothered to walk ( ! ) up there , I 'm sure a line or two of bolts would n't go amiss . |
| 23 | In the heat of the moment , the grey-coated wolf will wrestle with its quarry and Fido will violently shake rags until they lie motionless or chew squeaky toys until they squeak no more . |
| 24 | In the heat of the moment , the grey-coated wolf will wrestle with its quarry and Fido will violently shake rags until they lie motionless or chew squeaky toys until they squeak no more . |
| 25 | ‘ Often you do n't realise the sheer range of functions of a good company secretary or administrator until they leave , because they 've been so efficient , ’ said Mr Sheppard . |
| 26 | This rule , still in existence while Visa and Mastercard fight a rearguard action with the Office of Fair Trading , prevents banks from processing card transactions until they have built up a large base of card-holders . |
| 27 | The fear now is that banks will start to compete by driving commission rates lower and lower until they are prepared to arrange issues at break-even or worse . |
| 28 | But until they do , for state and party functionaries , the cards remain the ABC of Angolan socialism . |
| 29 | One of the few genuinely dockland clubs , they won the 1905 FA Amateur Cup as West Hartlepool , then achieved nothing more until they won promotion to the Third . |
| 30 | As for the match , Rovers conspired to throw a smokescreen of their own around their abilities until they emerged starkly with two clever goals inside three minutes early in the second half to scuttle their scoreless fellow Third Division promotion hopefuls . |