Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] until it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Third , it must perform its conspicuous , super-prey routine until it attracts the attention of the predator . |
| 2 | Once , when an alarm became peculiarly insistent , the Maggot thumped the instrument panel until it stopped . |
| 3 | Heat the butter in a heavy-based frying pan until it stops foaming , then add the yam slices in a single layer . |
| 4 | Following yesterday 's helicopter shooting in Yugoslavia , the European Community is halting truce monitoring until it receives safety assurances for its observers . |
| 5 | Neuron Data , better known for its Nexpert expert system until it re-invented itself as a GUI development outfit , plans to push on into what it sees as a burgeoning market for software which can make an ISV 's job designing solutions which work across heterogeneous environments much easier . |
| 6 | But in the meantime the investors have had the benefit of a gross roll-up of interest and the flexibility of deferring their tax charge until it suits them which , of course , may be at a time when the tax charge is lower or after they have emigrated . |
| 7 | I can assure readers that particular problem will not happen again , all parties involved will be contacted throughout the distribution process until it arrives at members ' addresses . |
| 8 | Germany has told Benin that it will not help with pesticide disposal until it refuses unnecessary donations . |
| 9 | In the morning the water would run , run fast and sweet along a mains pipe until it met with an obstruction and the water would eat away at the mass that blocked it . |
| 10 | It was one of the few remaining to keep an old cinema organ until it closed a few years ago . |
| 11 | Lee 's proposed opening for the movie , based on a script written by James Baldwin , is an American flag being licked with flames behind a credit sequence until it forms the title X . |
| 12 | She scrubbed the old lino floor until it revealed a pleasant geometric pattern of tan , brown and yellow diamonds ; poured bleach , then caustic soda , and then her own physical energy into the stained hideous bath , succeeding in restoring it in several places to snowy whiteness . |
| 13 | The optimistic , structuring of an art form until it appears to be on tiptoe in defiance and compliance with gravity … or whatever the dominant forcefield may be . |
| 14 | You can of course move the point cam furthest away from the carriage , because the carriage just keeps pattern knitting until it reaches it , it does n't need to calculate which stitch of the pattern to stop it . |
| 15 | Keeping the noisy engine as muted as possible , Yanto negotiated the dirt path until it terminated suddenly at the base of the sea wall . |
| 16 | Explore this planning task until it has found |
| 17 | 8 Whisk the cream until it forms soft folds and , in another bowl whisky the egg white until it forms soft peaks . |
| 18 | I want to bang my skull repeatedly on the road surface until it hurts . |
| 19 | Without a word she untied it and stuffed it into Werewolf 's lapel pocket until it looked like a dress handkerchief , then she moved behind him and pulled the sleeves of his jacket up to the elbows . |
| 20 | 6 To remove the cartridge , hold the gun vertical , depress the clutch plate ( a ) and pull back the piston rod until it clears the end of the cartridge |
| 21 | The 80860 also formed the basis of Oki Electric 's server line until it folded last month . |
| 22 | The clifftop factory at Nancekuke , Cornwall , began life as a nerve gas factory until it switched to control agents such as CS gas in 1956 . |
| 23 | Now insert the disc into the drive slot until it clicks home . |
| 24 | Once there continue along the wide ridge path until it passes a wood on the right . |
| 25 | Without any regard for his own safety , Andrews climbed onto a wing of the blazing plane , and kicked frantically at the toughened perspex of the cockpit canopy until it shattered , then dragged out the semi-conscious pilot . |
| 26 | Flowers concluded with a much-quoted dictum : ‘ There should be no commitment to a large programme of nuclear fission power until it has been demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that a method exists to ensure the safe containment of long-lived , highly radioactive waste for the indefinite future . ’ |
| 27 | The Swiss arrogantly ignored the advent of new electronic watch technology until it became obvious that markets for their mechanical products , believed to be the best in the world , had all but disappeared . |
| 28 | Follow this track south until it branches into two ( 1.25 miles ) . |
| 29 | By 1800 the new Shorthorn was Britain 's tallest breed , the bulls standing 152cm at the withers ; the famous Durham Ox was 165cm tall and weighed 3,024 pounds as a five-year-old in 1801 when it was exhibited all over the country , remaining a star travelling showpiece until it dislocated its hip in 1807 . |
| 30 | But when asked which tree had less , or to make one of two trees have less , children again chose the tree with more , and they added to the target tree until it had a greater amount than the other . |