Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] until " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would sit or kneel until his body ached , picking and stroking in his efforts to please her . |
| 2 | No-one will be allowed to stay or return until the building has been checked . |
| 3 | No-one will be allowed to stay or return until the building has been checked . |
| 4 | Under normal conditions of plasticity , if the internal and external stresses are not balanced , the form will either expand or contract until equilibrium is achieved . |
| 5 | When she arrived at Walsall , she informed Edward that Mrs Noble , after sending her earlier a ‘ vulgar and jeering ’ letter in which ‘ She does her best to make me doubt you ’ , had forbidden them to meet or correspond until Helen reached years of discretion — her twenty-first birthday on 11 July 1898 . |
| 6 | But for the remainder of the Fifties the initiative was seized in the Soviet Union , and often the world , by this gifted peasant , a copy-book proletarian , a metal worker who did not read or write until he was in his twenties and who summed up in his character so many of the strengths and weaknesses of the Communist system . |
| 7 | I think one wants to go at a time when people still want you to stay , rather than stay until people want you to go . |
| 8 | The council are considering asking the Southern Water Authority to impose restrictions on use of water now rather than wait until matters become really serious . |
| 9 | This is why it is better to see a doctor when you first feel unwell rather than wait until it is so bad that you have to go to hospital . |
| 10 | A savage new twist to the personal computer price-performance ratchet is in prospect after Advanced Micro Devices Inc announced yesterday that it will plunge straight into the 80486 market with a family of devices using Intel Corp microcode rather than wait until its own ‘ clean ’ version of the chip is ready in June . |
| 11 | A savage new twist to the personal computer price-performance ratchet is in prospect after Advanced Micro Devices Inc announced yesterday that it will plunge straight into the 80486 market with a family of devices using Intel Corp microcode rather than wait until its own ‘ clean ’ version of the chip is ready in June . |
| 12 | Rather than wait until a discourse is finished , and then analyse it as a whole , from outside and with the benefit of hindsight , the ethnomethodologists try to understand how it unfolds in time . |
| 13 | As regards the timing of the announcement , the Directors , in consultation with Unions and personnel professionals , decided that those affected would want to know immediately rather than wait until after the Christmas holiday to be told . |
| 14 | Would it not , be advisable , therefore , to have a uniform regime — which need not necessarily be the same as either existing regime — rather than wait until such a system is imposed on us ? |
| 15 | During his opening speech , I asked the Secretary of State a question to which he did not give a full or satisfactory answer — why had not the Government sought to introduce those measures before they privatised monopolies , rather than wait until the customers had suffered the consequences of several years of high prices and not necessarily improved services ? |
| 16 | I know I know I 'm taking it out of order but rather than wait until we get there , this has been raised , why ca n't we deal with it now ? |
| 17 | It would be better if you contacted the police rather than wait until they arrive to question you . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Metalscape ’ captures the POD venom with a massive thump — the song 's arrangement lets the lyrical flow build and build until , just as you 're wondering if Jim Steinman is in the house , the whole thing falls back and gently rises again in an enchanting manner . |
| 19 | Technically an annual , it forms a ‘ nut ’ each autumn which falls to the bottom of the pool and does not reappear and germinate until the following spring . |
| 20 | If we want to influence another person and that person is working under enormous stress and is irritated by our request , we can stand back and wait until she or he is more relaxed . |
| 21 | However , after having reached a position out of range of detection by the Cherbourg defences , P/O Atherton and his crew must have decided to circle and wait until they felt that the defences would have assumed that the attack was over and would therefore have relaxed their alertness . |
| 22 | As in war , you could use them as a screen behind which your knights could withdraw and wait until they were ready to charge . |
| 23 | I turned the cab back , deciding to breakfast somewhere and wait until I could speak to Miss Grey … |
| 24 | What , what , do I just have to sit and wait until it all gets accepted and they sit on it or |
| 25 | In fact , you can argue and remonstrate until you are blue in the face but certain plans or arrangements can not be progressed just yet and you must simply sit tight and wait for the Full Moon in Aries on the 14th before making any drastic changes or decisions . |
| 26 | He 'd grow and grow until he burst the house apart . |
| 27 | The pair reckon the JFK story will run and run until conclusive proof is provided about the person or persons behind his killing . |
| 28 | If the guard is wounded , once he starts the bell , it will swing and toll until someone stops it . ’ |
| 29 | Occasionally , especially in the evenings , Creggan would see him stop and roar until he could roar no more ; and then he would continue pacing , on and on . |
| 30 | He 'd drink and drink until the memory was gone . |