Example sentences of "until it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , I do n't want you two gossiping about me , ’ said Comfort , her lazily amused voice sharpening until it sounded almost vicious . |
| 2 | The wood of the planks was almost white , but it had been sanded and then varnished with gums and resins until it glistened . |
| 3 | Our concern is rather to break away from the stale confrontation of reason and spontaneity which has persisted since the Romantic Movement , to invite the man of reason to admit that he never has had any ends which did not spring from his own spontaneity , and the intuitive and impulsive that no insight that flashes from theirs can be acknowledged as objective truth until it survives the ruthless justice of reason . |
| 4 | Germany has told Benin that it will not help with pesticide disposal until it refuses unnecessary donations . |
| 5 | The way goes on to cross the B1152 and follow the River Thurne until it goes past Acle and on to Halvergate Marshes . |
| 6 | Wait until it goes down and you can walk in without getting your feet wet . ’ |
| 7 | Push the pipe into the fitting squarely until it goes no further . |
| 8 | Finding the hole in a blocked inspection chamber is not always easy : the way to do it is to find the bottom channel and to push the rod along this until it goes down the drain . |
| 9 | the light comes on , and then it waits until you start the engine until it goes off |
| 10 | Her hair , for all she was eight months and one week pregnant , had that day been coiffeured , lacquered and backcombed until it stuck out all around her head . |
| 11 | But in the early postwar years its import surplus was so large that despite expanded gold exports it was a net drawer on the sterling pool , until it left the pool at the end of 1947 . |
| 12 | until it left the country . |
| 13 | The injustice is that the donkey is beaten until it collapses and then it is beaten for collapsing . |
| 14 | Nothing would get the stuff off him until it burned itself out . |
| 15 | She held the candle steady until it burned tall and pale , and the light swelled and smoothed the mellow wood of the walls , calling gaunt shadows out of empty air . |
| 16 | ‘ Until it changes the ship will not sail . ’ |
| 17 | Hiarc has apparently agreed and is arranging a temporary licence until it changes the name , a move Sparc International would probably insist on since Hiarc wants to move the software to non-Sparc platforms . |
| 18 | He walked along the same three or four streets twice until it seemed pointless to continue . |
| 19 | He said he was sorry for not visiting more often , sorry for not being there , for not , for not , for not , these omissions of his , these confessions , they rose into his closed mouth until it seemed that he might choke , they were jumbled up , dislocated , like old bones in a crypt , but he knew they fitted together , he knew they would form a skeleton where he could hang the flesh and muscle of his guilt . |
| 20 | Then a green light would stab through the gloom and he 'd be roaring down the narrow concrete strip , faster and faster , holding Sugar back until it seemed the boundary fence was hurtling to meet them . |
| 21 | He looked out , only half-focusing , until it seemed the fires were burning in his room , or else his reflection had stepped out through the window to roam the park like a ghost . |
| 22 | Searing , excruciating agony ripped through his hand and up his arm until it seemed to engulf his entire body . |
| 23 | The various elements combined until it seemed to Ace that a choir was whispering to her . |
| 24 | For a time he lost himself in the game , his whole self gathered up into the shapes the stones made on the board , until it seemed the board was the great Tao and he the stones . |
| 25 | The rain fell incessantly until it seemed they travelled through sheets of water , the old cobbled road turned into a muddy mire , sometimes dangerous with potholes , where a man could plunge waist deep in water . |
| 26 | It climbed vertically above the field , retracing its earlier journey , until it seemed to hang suspended at the precise point where it had rested a moment ago . |
| 27 | Starting at the Cow and Calf you climbed through a Khyber Pass of crags from one ling-and-bracken horizon to another until it seemed the sky could not be far off . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Then thrust your kicking foot until it travels in a straight line . |
| 30 | Looking back I suppose it was then that I started to brood about a problem that grew and grew until it burst out into the open at the World Championships . |