Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] until it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Lick it until it feels better and then go to sleep . " |
| 2 | and we , we would ask of that , but the next point and erm , is this my Lord erm at the moment erm the negotiations are erm proceeding in relation to the house , about which we have heard evidence , er , we could not properly buy it until it had been investigated by the court of protection and there was approval of that , and er it will be necessary for er consideration to be given as to how it should be purchased , in practical terms , firstly your Lordship has erm awarded a figure of seventy one thousand pounds , then there is the eighty thousand pounds on the existing house which takes one up to a hundred and fifty or thereabouts , and one sees that the special damages and interest thereon comes to something over fifty two thousand pounds to which these er parents will be entitled in the normal way , and if they were to apply , they might do and apply , that would go a long way to purchasing it and the court of protection , if it approved that might take the view that it would be fair to take something out of the notional aspect of damages for loss of earnings , because after all the plaintiff would have spent his earnings for housing and so on in the future , that , that is the sort of problems that now have to be tackled er what , what we would respect and suggest is er simply that there is liberty to apply erm . |
| 3 | He moved his hand and touched her breast through the robe she wore , found the nipple and stroked it until it hardened and she stirred . |
| 4 | That 's why we never celebrate anything until it 's happened . |
| 5 | ‘ I think you 've lost hope , and the only thing I can tell you is that if you hang on hope will come back , and you must n't do anything until it does . ’ |
| 6 | I have used it until it has powdered . |
| 7 | It sidesteps the usual limitations of screen resolution by a powerful ‘ zoom ’ mode which enables the operator to enter fine detail , then to shrink it until it becomes virtually invisible . |
| 8 | Ballesteros took world golf by the scruff of the neck and shook it until it reformed into patterns more nearly to his liking . |
| 9 | After watching the growth of this fish from ¼″ to 10″ , I 'll keep it until it leaves naturally . |
| 10 | Equally it might be argued that since withdrawal from NATO was the last card he could play in his campaign against American influence , short of defecting from the West altogether , there were good reasons not to play it until it seemed likely to be effective or became absolutely necessary . |
| 11 | Zephandra Butolphi has this idea that you have repeat everything until it becomes one with the cosmic miasmal consciousness , so pages one , two and three read : |
| 12 | The function keeps calling itself until it returns the answer 1 . |
| 13 | If it is dry and unyielding we automatically chew it until it becomes comfortable to swallow . |
| 14 | We 'll hear nothing until it runs out , and then she 'll put the tap on you again . |
| 15 | Though it ca n't book them until it starts to deliver on November 30 , president Joel Applebaum expects it to be profitable its first fiscal quarter ending February . |
| 16 | It has been said before but we must go on saying it until it happens : call a referundum and give us a vote . |
| 17 | It had hardened slightly and she moistened it with icy water , kneading it until it shed a film of white liquid . |
| 18 | Harry watched it until it had turned into Emlyn Square , then began walking unsteadily in the same direction . |
| 19 | Our collection of children 's books and toys grew with us and outgrew us until it dominated our lives . |
| 20 | By rotating it until it cut out the polarised light , the Vikings could locate the dark polarised band . |
| 21 | Change it until it does . |
| 22 | Victor breathed on the glass in his hand , and buffed it until it gleamed . |
| 23 | Eliot observed how he would take a word ‘ and squeeze and squeeze it until it yielded a full juice of meaning which we would never suppose any word to possess ’ . |
| 24 | He lifted a sock from the floor and pushed it into her mouth , then held a silk blouse out by its cuffs and spun it until it became a rope to hold the gag secure . |
| 25 | The cricket periodically tests the size of its acoustic horn and adjusts it until it resonates at the frequency produced by its wings — a remarkable feat since it can only gauge the efficiency of its amplifier by detecting the changes in pressure waves within the chamber . |
| 26 | If it does n't obey the first two rules , Word will not save it until it does : |
| 27 | Should she pick up the baby whenever it cries or leave it until it settles of its own accord ? |
| 28 | There remains the question whether , as the applicant contends , the only proper course for the district judge was to postpone the trials of the Barclays ( Asia ) and West L.B. matters until after the conclusion of the B.M.F.L. trial , or at least postpone them until it had become clear whether , and if so when and in what shape , the B.M.F.L. case would proceed . |
| 29 | Apparently this new method had been tried out down south and it seemed ideal for the temperamental Orkney climate because you harvested when it was green and then you put it in a pit and packed it with a tractor and then you left it until it turned black and rotted and then you cut it up in chunks and fed it to the cattle . |
| 30 | Promise yourself before you begin that you will ignore the unwanted behaviour ( say , a tantrum ) every time it occurs , and continue to ignore it until it stops . |