Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] until " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may be easier said than done but if you have a clear idea of the purpose of the meeting and have prepared a thorough list of everything you want to know then you must stick to your guns and carry on relentlessly until you have worked your way through it . |
| 2 | Can he defy what may appear to be a paradox by both easing the burden of excessive interest rates and pressing on relentlessly until inflation is completely eradicated from the economy ? |
| 3 | He moved on slowly until he reached one of the roads into the city . |
| 4 | He sat on alone until all unease was lost in a luxury of self-absorption . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't think all this will sink in properly until we 've seen her for ourselves . ’ |
| 6 | Afraid to move , even to breathe , she stared , mesmerised , as Pentry leaned down slowly until his lips met her cheek . |
| 7 | He looked around him as he went ; but he did not slow down much until he reached the culvert . |
| 8 | Using this ‘ spade ’ , they simply dig down vertically until they are about 50 cm ( 20 in ) deep . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , Ted 's small workshop was crammed full of other assorted engineering tackle and as the arrival of a larger workshop was imminent we decided to sheet the engine side down outside until the new workshop was erected . |
| 10 | and so you could pull it in just until it stops flapping and then you 'd be able to sail away and we 'd never see you again . |
| 11 | I sank down further until I could just see over the seat in front . |
| 12 | If Guillory hollered his blues , Renbourn confided his , looking as solidly English as roast beef and sounding wistful and worldly-wise , his playing strolling along affably until one suddenly realised that — as in an old Booker T number — things were really starting to shift with indecent ease . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll be going in regularly until I take over ; at least part-time , ’ she said eagerly . |
| 14 | I groped around with my foot for the table-leg and pressed down hard until the spasm gradually subsided . |
| 15 | Cranston leaned over the table , placing his hands over those of Fitzosbert and pressing down hard until the keeper 's face paled and beads of sweat broke out on his brow . |
| 16 | A step up here , a step down there until perhaps you reach the door of the room from which , although it is locked and empty , you can hear shuffling footsteps . |
| 17 | Shut down completely until you got back from leave ? |
| 18 | The matured loan notes can be rolled over indefinitely until the tax liability expires . |
| 19 | The address of the beginning of the relevant ( third ) block can then be found , located , and searched through sequentially until the required record is located . |
| 20 | The hot-air hand-drier was almost certainly invented by lawyers : instead of the quick , rough efficiency of a towel , you must stand there miming the washing of hands over and over again until the soap has been extracted from every last crevice . |
| 21 | When he had finished his chores he sat down at the table and copied out ‘ I am William Beech ’ over and over again until Tom , after much effort , finally persuaded him to go for a run and exercise Sammy . |
| 22 | We then all sit down together and discuss these various options over and over again until the board has reached a position of understanding of where in broad terms we think the strategy of the individual business should fit . |
| 23 | He ought to take a riding-whip to that wife of his and then bed her over and over again until she 's with child . " |
| 24 | I was an utter martinette about his pronunciation ( he did n't know when I did n't know ) and would make him happily furious insisting that he repeat words over and over again until I was content . |
| 25 | It can be compared to the scales which a singer or player of a musical instrument must sing or play over and over again until certain movements become automatic habits . |
| 26 | When staff tried to begin work by loading up a lorry with timber , the protestors simply took it off again until they stopped . |
| 27 | By constantly loose feeding loose maggots he was able to keep the fish active in his swim , enabling him to pick them off steadily until he had about 10 lb. 6 oz . |
| 28 | It is , on the whole , more likely that they are responding to the cumulative temperature building up slowly until a threshold has been passed , and they are away . |
| 29 | Hydraulic pressure built up slowly until the door wheezed open . |
| 30 | ( vi ) After centrifugation insert a rod through the hole in the base of the tube and push the plunger up gently until the chambers emerge and can be removed . |