Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] until it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whisk the evaporated milk until it thickens , then fold into the chocolate mixture with the orange rind . |
| 2 | Gaynor Harris and her husband Charles Bullworthy have purchased the Southampton office , which Ms Harris set up in 1980 and ran as a sole practice until it merged with A E Hook & Co , an old established firm on the Isle of Wight . |
| 3 | heat this mixture over a low flame until it melts , stirring well . |
| 4 | The back avenue was a secondary way from the house , only as wide as a street , it ran between a shrubbery and a park-like field until it reached the farmyard wall . |
| 5 | If you get it right , the model will maintain constant height , with reducing airspeed and increasingly nose high attitude until it stops . |
| 6 | ‘ Julie ’ is a classy acoustic rumble until it breaks into a Highland swing midway through when Callum Williams adds the skirl of the pipes . |
| 7 | He undressed her with care ; slipping the loose silk dress from her shoulders , and helping it down her slim body until it fell in a circle around her feet . |
| 8 | He has been stonewalling throughout the whole month since Lamb told the world , through the Daily Mirror , how the Pakistanis scuff and scrape and scoop at an old ball until it swings as though it was factory fresh . |
| 9 | The United Nations has suspended the Somali peace talks in the Ethiopian capital until it has details of the fighting in Kismayu between militia forces of Mohamed Said Hersi , known as Gen Morgan , and Ahmed Omar Jess . |
| 10 | There was nothing to recommend preserving the old Government until it had been formally defeated at Westminster . |
| 11 | Blend together and gradually add the roe alternately with about 300ml/½ pint of olive oil until it forms a thick paste . |
| 12 | Their basic proposition was that we tend to organise and simplify incoming information until it makes a satisfying pattern . |
| 13 | If the corners are fixed and immoveable , then the square will appear to maintain its rigid shape until it bursts . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm tired … do n't want a wash , ’ he mumbled , leaning his small sturdy figure against her , and twisting both hands into his dark hair until it made a tangled mass . |
| 15 | Then thrust your kicking foot until it travels in a straight line . |
| 16 | After a hasty shower , she chose pleat-waisted tan cords and a cream checked shirt , knotted a thick Aran sweater round her neck and brushed her hair with suppressed violence until it shone in a red-gold cloud down her back . |
| 17 | Once she was inside his trousers , her slim fingers caressed his sleeping organ until it jumped in her hand as if it had been bitten . |
| 18 | ‘ That path 's in a very dangerous state until it dries out properly . |
| 19 | The fineness of the gold began a gentle decline through the tenth century to about 90 per cent , and debasement accelerated during the following century until it took a sudden nosedive in the two decades between 1071 and 1092 , falling from about 70 per cent to a mere 10 per cent . |
| 20 | She felt as fragile and foolish as a moth that beat itself against the hot glass of an electric bulb until it fell burned and spent , in its desperate doomed quest for the light . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Reports suggested that senior figures in the ANC had sought to prevent a top-level meeting until it appeared that a cessation of violence could not be brought about by any other means . |
| 23 | I will grow my hair out to its natural colour until it falls long and lank about my shoulders , allow my skin to fade to a startling winter white . |
| 24 | Sentimental as ever , the English refrain from slaughtering the little tablefare until it has developed a taste for grass . |
| 25 | It had a deep brim which widened towards the chin so that in profile the face would be hidden , and before she put it on Sarah brushed her unruly hair until it looked smooth , then she parted it in the middle and drew it tightly back . |
| 26 | Luxury sorbet with strawberry coulis Blend together strawberries with a little icing sugar in a good processor until it forms a smooth purée . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Thereafter it hammers away with great effect until it has excavated a narrow tunnel as much as three feet long . |
| 29 | A line is fed through a peripheral vein until it reaches the right atrium of the heart . |
| 30 | Or a great space hulk might be reported drifting in the void or in the warp , harbouring suspected pirates or , worse , those fierce cunning invasive Genestealers which could infest a human world just as termites infest a house — so that it seems to remain firm timber until it crumbles apart . |