Example sentences of "until she [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stopped to watch her until she disappeared in the darkness . |
| 2 | Obviously , at the end of her service , she was too old for breeding and stayed with her handler until she died at the age of sixteen . |
| 3 | He remained as tenant , as did his sister after him until she died in the late sixties . ’ |
| 4 | For a Royal tour she always used to pull out the stops and literally shop until she dropped for the occasion . |
| 5 | They ate less and less , never venturing outside the villa , the physical aspect of their relationship consuming them both as Damian began to take her beyond her new-found sensuality , smashing barriers as he went , teaching her everything about her body and his until she thrilled to the power of knowing how to touch and kiss him to make him breathless with ecstasy , whispering incoherent , urgent words of encouragement to her until they both fell into their usual sleep of pleasurable exhaustion , completely united by the passion that raged just as highly between them now as it ever had from the very beginning . |
| 6 | Miss Fielding , from Stockport , presented Blue Peter for five years until she left in the summer . |
| 7 | Luke 's mouth descended then and took hers and Robyn felt the surge of hidden desire increasing , expanding , until she ached with the pleasure of it . |
| 8 | She walks from her flat at the wrong end of Ladbroke Grove , along the Harrow Road , under various stretches of motorway , past the Metropole Hotel where she calls in to buy herself a drink in the Cosmo-Cocktail Bar ( she is perversely fond of the Metropole Hotel ) , and then through various increasingly handsome although gloomy back streets , until she arrives at the arranged corner . |
| 9 | How deeply she 'd slept she did n't appreciate until she woke to the remote hoot of river traffic , and the sound of a pigeon cooing rhythmically just outside the window . |
| 10 | The sensation augmented in roaring octaves of bitter power until she hung at the edge of being where something — some eternal truth — hung clear and untouchable as the luscious stars . |
| 11 | She read on , about Jesus being born in Bethlehem and about King Herod and did not stop until she came to the line about Rachel weeping for her children . |
| 12 | As soon as she reached the open deer-park she ran , and she hardly paused until she came to the broad track that sloped down to the marsh , smiling and vivid green in the late afternoon sunshine . |
| 13 | She walked through the streets until she came to the litter of a part of town which teetered unbecomingly between abject decline and frenzied development . |
| 14 | She dived down the first alleyway , until she came to the window beside the white door with the red strip on the step . |
| 15 | Then she swam along the bank until she came to the old pontoon . |
| 16 | She ran along the line , stumbling over the planks , until she came to the old pit and the line of empty skips . |
| 17 | ‘ Your Aunt Belle never stopped going until she fell off the mule . |
| 18 | Immediately , she backed up until she got to the junction and found a gateway to park in , then returned to his car on foot . |
| 19 | They raced across the fields at Roger Moore Farm , Egglestone , until she got to the water tank . |
| 20 | listen to this , I 'm becoming increasingly aware that my landlady 's been making sexual passes at me , I did n't take them seriously until she climbed in the shower with me |
| 21 | He gasped her name as her body closed around him and then she was dominated by his power until she slid off the end of the world into warm darkness . |
| 22 | She called again , moving out through the gate until she stood at the top of the lower garden that sloped down to the bay . |
| 23 | He turned towards a tall white door and opened it , waiting with very studied politeness for her to approach , his eyes roaming over her sardonically until she blushed to the roots of her hair . |
| 24 | The silence and emptiness of the scene did not become apparent to her until she turned into the drive of the house and realized there were no other cars parked there , no gaily clad groups tripping towards the garden , no jazz band to summon them nor hired flunkeys to greet them , no pop of champagne corks nor buzz of conversation , no bunting , no balloons , no merriment of any kind . |
| 25 | I think she was a very brave person , for until she retired from the shop , long after our grandparents had died , she slept alone in the big old family house with the shop 's takings under her bed . |
| 26 | But initially she could n't think how to raise the money for it — until she hit on the idea of Greener Gifts . |