Example sentences of "until [pron] [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found the whisky , let myself out of the cellar and locked it , turned all the lights out , gave Mrs McSpadden the bottle , accepted a belated new-year kiss from her , then made my way out through the kitchen and the corridor and the crowded hall where the music sounded loud and people were laughing , and out through the now almost empty entrance hall and down the steps of the castle and down the driveway and down to Gallanach , where I walked along the esplanade — occasionally having to wave or say ‘ Happy New Year ’ to various people I did n't know — until I got to the old railway pier and then the harbour , where I sat on the quayside , legs dangling , drinking my whisky and watching a couple of swans glide on black , still water , to the distant sound of highland jigs coming from the Steam Packet Hotel , and singing and happy-new-year shouts echoing in the streets of the town , and the occasional sniff as my nose watered in sympathy with my eyes . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Then she swam along the bank until she came to the old pontoon . |
| 5 | She ran along the line , stumbling over the planks , until she came to the old pit and the line of empty skips . |
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| 7 | This is the same as the main route until you come to the Great Moss area , but where you cross over the River Esk , continue to follow the river to its source at Esk Hause , where you rejoin the main route . |
| 8 | To find it , follow a line from Alpha through Beta and extend it until you come to the next reasonably bright star , 41 Leporis ( 5.5 ) . |
| 9 | th er the , there 's fields until you get to the Irish Sea , int there ? |
| 10 | If you got mice i , you can also make things easier by actually moving that arrow around until you get to the individual word that you actually want to find and actually then you stop your cursor there . |
| 11 | Walk right away until you get to the first window of Moe 's Tavern , collect the spray can and paint the cinema billboard ( stand to the right of the three aliens to do this ) . |
| 12 | I agree with everything you 've said until you got to the last bit . |
| 13 | We did all right until we got to the last bit and I got my foot caught in Otley 's pocket when he tried to bend down , he fell and flung me over his head knocking my wig skew-whiff . |
| 14 | On we went , par after par , until we got to the 16th and I thought , this must be it . |
| 15 | With the expansion of trade and industry in the twelfth century — perhaps the most prolific of all centuries for new towns until we come to the nineteenth — a few traders assembled periodically near a crossing place over the river Welland . |
| 16 | After Bunyan , he is not a pioneer of operatic form until we come to the three Church Parables . |
| 17 | After the contestants hit their tee shots to the splendid par-3 that sits out on a bluff high above the boiling Pacific surf , they take their leave of the gallery until they return to the contiguous United States via Cypress ' par-4 17th hole . |
| 18 | Pupils follow either the ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ road until they get to the next question . |
| 19 | Formerly a part of Kievan Rus , Belorussia also came under Lithuanian and Polish control until it passed to the Russian Empire under the partitions of the late eighteenth century . |
| 20 | Your pulse rate will continue to decrease until it reverts to the first reading . |
| 21 | In a late decision , ARCO , Madrid 's annual contemporary art fair founded in 1982 , is returning to the Crystal Pavilion of the Casa de Campo , the hall where it enjoyed its greatest successes until it relocated to the new Juan Carlos I exhibition park near the airport north of the city a year ago . |
| 22 | Ian pressed on down the passage , down two steps , until he came to the small wooden door in the fabric . |
| 23 | He ran on until he came to the tall reeds . |
| 24 | Martin walked carefully along a narrow path that would tortuously between ancient graves and heavy , ornate tombstones until he came to the first of the family plots . |
| 25 | Charlie ignored the order and crawled quickly forward until he came to the prostrate body of his friend . |
| 26 | But instead of releasing it he began to kiss each finger in turn until he came to the pale circle on the third finger of her left hand . |
| 27 | He walked silently along the thickly carpeted floor until he came to the last cubicle . |
| 28 | He grabbed his passport but did n't open it until he got to the Hungarian border . |