Example sentences of "until i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think he will not be friendly , until I gather the nerve to talk to him and ask him — in a friendly way — about prison . |
| 2 | It is the most beautiful thing you will ever wear — until I surpass myself the next time ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It is beautiful , ’ she said coyly , ‘ it is the most beautiful dress I will ever wear , until I surpass myself the next time . ’ |
| 4 | It was n't until I threatened to bring my men down to discuss it with him at the Swan Inn that he had a change of mind . |
| 5 | Instead of him being a mate , I loathed him after that until I got used to the idea . |
| 6 | Not until I got a reaction . |
| 7 | The Miss Cardings next door , they would have let me stay there until I got myself sorted out . |
| 8 | I did n't even know what it was until I got to the studio . ’ |
| 9 | I 'd heard Joe Walsh and Pete Townshend used them quite heavy , and I rather liked the tone they got , so I slowly built it up until I got up as high as I could be comfortable with , and I 've been using that gauge ever since . ’ |
| 10 | So in a panic I went into a room , closed the door , and started screaming until I got hoarse . |
| 11 | ‘ I was fine until I got on the pitch but then it all drained away and the game just passed me by . |
| 12 | If I got a question wrong , which I did more often than not , he would repeat it in what seemed to me a contemptuous tone until I got it right . |
| 13 | ‘ Not until I got a job , ’ Miss Honey said . |
| 14 | I knew nothing of the facts of life until I got to my preparatory school , when at the age of thirteen , all of the boys who were leaving were summoned to the headmaster 's study . |
| 15 | So I rounded up my bird-fancying friends ' old copies of Cage and Aviary and studied them until I got back to the very beginning of the season , early March . |
| 16 | Nothing happened to me until I got off the Moon . |
| 17 | If I 'd known how important it was about the house — I did n't understand until I got your note . |
| 18 | There was no reply , so I would have to contain my curiosity until I got to the golf course . |
| 19 | Helmut told me that he would continue paying my allowance until I got a job . |
| 20 | Father got a bit worked up about this , but it was above my head until I got down to the specific steps to success which appear in the following chapters , so just remember OIL . |
| 21 | He said it would just be until I got myself sorted out , and then I would get him back straight away . |
| 22 | More than that , I persisted until I got through ! |
| 23 | We 'd often talked about it and I 'd always said , No , I would never do anything like that until I got married . |
| 24 | And , of course , I gradually built up then to until I got the er the main overall jobs , and er w by the time I was twenty one , of course , I was considered a full waggon repairer . |
| 25 | But we used to en I used to enjoy going to it , as I say until I got older and I wanted to sort of stretch my wings a little bit and and I did other things . |
| 26 | My father encouraged my interest in science , and he even coached me in mathematics until I got to a stage beyond his knowledge . |
| 27 | It came at once in the form of none other than the mighty Lord 's Prayer ; but it was n't until I got to the line about daily bread that I saw the light — I had n't given her any ! |
| 28 | I did n't want to say anything about it until I got back . |
| 29 | I found the whisky , let myself out of the cellar and locked it , turned all the lights out , gave Mrs McSpadden the bottle , accepted a belated new-year kiss from her , then made my way out through the kitchen and the corridor and the crowded hall where the music sounded loud and people were laughing , and out through the now almost empty entrance hall and down the steps of the castle and down the driveway and down to Gallanach , where I walked along the esplanade — occasionally having to wave or say ‘ Happy New Year ’ to various people I did n't know — until I got to the old railway pier and then the harbour , where I sat on the quayside , legs dangling , drinking my whisky and watching a couple of swans glide on black , still water , to the distant sound of highland jigs coming from the Steam Packet Hotel , and singing and happy-new-year shouts echoing in the streets of the town , and the occasional sniff as my nose watered in sympathy with my eyes . |
| 30 | And when Mala came back , I promised myself , I 'd be very cool and distant until I got a proper apology . |