Example sentences of "[adv prt] until it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless the glider is going to be launched without delay , it should be turned out of wind and held with the into-wind wing down until it is needed . |
| 2 | The nightmare of officials is that Japan 's fertility rate might keep going down until it hits western German levels — 1.28 at present . |
| 3 | I said I would drive into the country , lie in the long grass and watch the sun go down until it was quite dark . |
| 4 | The puppy must be held down until it stops growling or acting aggressively . |
| 5 | The jharo flared through the darkness , twisting and somersaulting , spiralling down until it landed in the village square , flickered momentarily , then died . |
| 6 | He followed the bomber down until it dived into the sea off Filfla , three survivors being seen in the water . |
| 7 | The three major airports in the Washington region were shut down until it was clear which one the plane was heading for . |
| 8 | The face of the rail has to be planed down until it lines up flush with both front and back legs . |
| 9 | This method of examination involves cutting a very thin slice from the object , which is fixed to a microscope slide and ground down until it is only 0.02mm thick . |
| 10 | The chef mashed a lump of raw gristle on his stove , and kept it down until it was half charcoal . |
| 11 | He leaned backwards , his hair hanging down until it nearly touched the floor . |
| 12 | Tighten the wheel down until it touches the pipe |
| 13 | Some like to have the item fully composed before they begin teaching others prefer to compose and teach parts , discarding and replacing as they go along until it takes shape . |
| 14 | and then time went along until it was September and September the third I was in church when the vicar announced that war has just been declared . |
| 15 | Hardly surprising , since she 'd played it non-stop since her Lucy dream , wept to it , soaked it in until it was her heartbeat , floated on the cloud of its beauty all through the Lucyless days . |
| 16 | Money in court belongs to the party who paid it in until it is accepted . |
| 17 | He used to give me an hours warning and then we 'd work through until it got dark out in the fields and then we 'd go into the sheds and restack the hay or whatever he wanted to do . |
| 18 | She then added ‘ It is n't over until it 's over ’ , confirming that her husband intends to appeal against the decision . |
| 19 | Of this , $200million will come from the US , as previously announced by President Bush , to tide Poland over until it receives $710million from the IMF as part of a long-term programme to restructure its economy . |
| 20 | Most important of all was to know the Catechism , and they had to repeat it over and over until it could be said without faltering . |
| 21 | Doyle let the little group of people walk on until it was only about two hundred metres away . |
| 22 | ‘ … and moreover the most gallant gentleman of the realm , and this went on until it resulted in a divorce , and after a second marriage , which was likewise unhappy , she entered the married estate for the third time with a common tar , with whom , though he abused her daily , she herself said that she lived in much greater content than in her first marriage . |
| 23 | The Company struggled on until it finally closed in 1939 . |
| 24 | The keepers still have to cull their set numbers of hinds and this goes on until it 's done — often well into the new year . |
| 25 | The full sized engine would then have been worked on until it became feasible to exploit steam engines commercially . |
| 26 | At this point we were told that the WO often found it difficult to get a clear indication of what was going on until it was too late to intervene without revocation being necessary . |
| 27 | But the Escort did n't stop , it came on until it blocked the road completely and before I could react , my door had been pulled open and a warrant card thrust in my face . |
| 28 | With a star of very low initial mass , nothing more happens ; the star glows feebly , and then simply cools off until it has become dead . |
| 29 | Now the eighteen-forties sees the development of manufacturing process , clothes are getting easier and easier to make , cheaper and cheaper , so fashion is changing faster because people can afford to , whereas in earlier times , if you wore a woollen dress , it had been you know , you know , somebody had done the sheep for you , had spun the wool and woven the wool and you were damned if you were going to take this dress off until it fell to pieces round you . |
| 30 | It 's a case of pushing the float up until it holds and does n't drag under . |