Example sentences of "until [adj] time [subord] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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1 | Also , on a more mundane level , there was the postponement of any financial debts then owing until such time as they returned from the crusade . |
2 | The wood was loosely stacked to provide the rabbits with temporary cover until such time as they enlarged the burrows themselves . |
3 | And now she was expected to entertain his lady-friends until such time as he chose to remember they were there ! |
4 | Where politicians have challenged him , he has outmanoeuvred them until such time as he perceived his work to be done ; and then — Vienna 1964 , Berlin 1989 — he simply and quickly stepped aside to move on to fresh projects . |
5 | So , Mr Smith cautiously withheld support for eviction until such time as he felt the old boy was sufficiently reconciled to moving out . |
6 | And he would then go round picking up his mates and say er you know I need a holder-on , I need a rivet boy , etcetera until such time as he got a squad together , and that squad would start in the morning as a squad . |
7 | Yeltsin confirmed that the 1961 treaty of friendship , co-operation and mutual assistance between North Korea and the Soviet Union was no longer effective , and that Russia would not provide financial or military support for the Pyongyang regime until such time as it improved its human rights record and adopted a more co-operative stance on the issue of nuclear inspection . |
8 | This would do , he told her , until such time as she became converted to Catholicism and they could marry properly . |