Example sentences of "until [num] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fishing is from 9 am until 2 pm with the draw at 7.30 am in the beach car park . |
| 2 | A debate that starts at 3.30 in the afternoon and goes on until 2 o'clock in the morning is hardly an advert for open government . |
| 3 | coloureds play music until six o'clock in the morning . |
| 4 | Many people can not think of playing music or listening to it until six o'clock in the evening . |
| 5 | Well , I waited up until three o'clock in the morning and he crawled in with footmarks all over his nice new suit where he 'd fallen on the floor and let everybody trample over him , blood pouring down his shirt from a head wound , a balloon tied round his neck and a paper hat on . |
| 6 | On the Friday before the incident occurred he had not got home until three o'clock in the morning . |
| 7 | The reformers , until 1964 mainly outside the House , argued that since the public wished to vote governments in or out of power and since every serious vote had become an issue of confidence , it was no longer possible to restore freer voting in order to improve the independence and power of the House . |
| 8 | You can enjoy a steam trip either prior to the display , or after , as trains run at half hourly intervals from 5.30 p.m. until 8.30 p.m. in the evening . |
| 9 | Like us , she was only required to work until 3 pm in the afternoon . |
| 10 | We had every other Sunday off , you see , but otherwise we worked and did n't get any extra for it but of course the girls like myself well erm we could n't lift these huge urns of tea so they had two men keep them on , you see , and er , and we were er perhaps I know one day we did n't finish until five o'clock in the morning |
| 11 | Margaret Allan , 35 , a student , told Margaret Paton , the depute fiscal , that her son had had permission to stay out until 9 pm on the evening he disappeared . |
| 12 | He worked on the farm until four o'clock in the afternoon . |
| 13 | In Ireland , ‘ good morning ’ lasts until two o'clock in the afternoon , and then becomes ‘ good evening ’ until five , when ‘ good night ’ starts to set in . |
| 14 | Thus it did not finish until two o'clock in the morning … |
| 15 | I listened until two o'clock in the morning . |
| 16 | On the night he came to Edinburgh , sitting up with Boswell in James 's Court until two o'clock in the morning , they talked of a recent case in which a murder , committed twenty years before , became a legal talking-point when the judges of Scotland allowed , as a plea , the length of time elapsed . |
| 17 | I started at half past six and I worked until two o'clock in the morning . |