Example sentences of "until i have " in BNC.

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1 He mentioned a sum which would pay my rent until I 'd finished the helium balloon and leave some over for sandwiches .
2 Can you do one of me ? ’ , until I 'd completed twenty five or so in the space of about two months .
3 I sorted through my frocks but could find none that fitted me ; I 'd outgrown them all and was waiting until I 'd grown into Liza 's castoffs .
4 ‘ I could hardly start a major scare until I 'd made certain , could I ? ’
5 I decided to do half a dozen a day until I 'd got through them .
6 It was n't until I 'd bought one and used it that I realised how much it speeded up knitting .
7 My encounters with girls were destined always to end in rejection until I 'd left my teens behind me .
8 And since he obviously had n't recognised me , I did n't want to connect myself with the house , until I 'd found out what his game was . ’
9 ‘ I was hoping Kenny could put me up for a few days until I 'd sorted things out with my parents .
10 ‘ I then waited to become pregnant until I 'd had the first two transfusions , ’ she says .
11 Not until I 'd checked . ’
12 The artist had fussed around while the thing was being loaded on my ship , babbling about how important it was and how delicate it was and so on , until I 'd just stopped listening .
13 But the site prepared to let me work , to carry on then as s they ma and I would n't claim my pension until I 'd finished .
14 I had this idea I had to be civilised , and wait until I 'd obtained spoken as well as physical consent from you — and then spent days regretting it !
15 She knew me as Matt and I did n't want to alert you to who I was until I 'd found out what was going on .
16 The producer put me , a sound man and a camera man into a London taxi ( for street cred ) and asked the driver to go round Piccadilly until I 'd finished speaking .
17 He seems a nice enough young man , but I refused to allow him up until I 'd spoken to you . ’
18 ‘ I was n't going to ring you until I 'd got something to say … ’
19 I had no intention of trying to explain the whereabouts of Sunil 's goods to Sunil or his henchmen until I 'd made contact with Zaria , and if she did n't come across soon there was a good chance she 'd find me hanging from a Christmas tree by the neck .
20 ‘ There was no reason to tell you of my proposal until I 'd assured myself of his agreement to it . ’
21 I mean , I did n't drive the minibus until I 'd driven it without passengers .
22 Y'know I did n't drive the minibus until I 'd driven it without passengers .
23 All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake .
24 That 's how I used to be until I had my brain overhaused last year .
25 They could not even think of washing my hair until I had had this operation to put the two rods in my back . ’
26 But with all these things I prepared and waited , prepared and waited until I had the orchestra really in hand .
27 I bent down and turned him until I had my hands under his arms , his back towards me , and I floated him along in the water to the steps and there strained to pull him up them and out onto the grass .
28 He would not let me off the hook until I had confessed that I could no longer work with my boss .
29 A little ward-maid appeared at the bedside with an enormous vacuum flask of Georgian tea , refusing to leave until I had downed every drop .
30 The school-leaving age — without the exceptions opposed in 1936 by the Local Education Authorities , the National Union of Teachers , Harold Macmillan , Walter Citrine of the TUC , and ( of course ) William Temple — was to be raised to fifteen on 1 April 1947 , and to sixteen as soon as it became practicable ( which , in the event , was not until I had completed my teaching career in secondary schools ) .
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