Example sentences of "until [pron] have [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After another half a minute , the power is passed to the third person and so on until everyone has had a turn at passing the power . |
| 2 | The game continues until everyone has had a turn . |
| 3 | He mentioned a sum which would pay my rent until I 'd finished the helium balloon and leave some over for sandwiches . |
| 4 | And I should n't leave Lothian until I had killed every Norman I could find , and all the families who were supporting them . |
| 5 | I stood there and promised them that I would stay alive until I had killed the monster . |
| 6 | Braque himself has best described his new method of work when he said , ‘ the fragmentation ( of objects ) enabled me to establish space and movement within space , and I was unable to introduce the object until I had created the space . ’ |
| 7 | A little ward-maid appeared at the bedside with an enormous vacuum flask of Georgian tea , refusing to leave until I had downed every drop . |
| 8 | I could never tell how good the ground was until I had tried the wheelbarrow on it . |
| 9 | ‘ I quite understand , but I wo n't be able to rest peacefully until I 've made the call . ’ |
| 10 | If we wait until I 've made the salad and grilled the chops , will the wine be ready ? ’ |
| 11 | I 'm I 'm a bit reluctant to embark on a , on reading reports of this nature which are liable to mean very little to me till I devote , until I 've obtained the view from the |
| 12 | I ca n't pay you until I 've bought the piece and sold it on . |
| 13 | ‘ And I 'm not going to commit myself to anything until I 've had a chance to talk to him . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I suppose this one will have to do until I 've had a look at the rest of the accommodation . ’ |
| 15 | The whole thing 's rank , once you get down to details — ’ he laughed , ‘ but I 'm not selling the story until I 've got a job with another firm . ’ |
| 16 | Neither of you can leave here until I have seen the photographs and the writing . ’ |
| 17 | I also run a contrast colour tacking stitch around the outline for a sewing guide and I leave this in place until I have re-hung the sweater on the knitting machine to attach the neck band . |
| 18 | ‘ I will accept nothing of the sort , Miss Kenton , until I have had a chance to deal with the matter . |
| 19 | He appeared to be dozing because he did not notice her approach , nor open his eyes , until she had parted the branches and was looking down at him . |
| 20 | His examination had been a deliberate attempt to humiliate her , and with an audible cry she began to scrub herself all over until she had covered every inch of her body with soap . |
| 21 | She had , only the other day , seen a policeman and -woman exerting more force than had seemed strictly necessary on a man in the street : at the time she had assumed that he had offered fierce resistance until she had turned the corner , at which moment he had been subdued . |
| 22 | On 14 February 1637 , for example , he granted licence to Lady Mary Crane to cut down underwood in Stoke Park in Salcey Forest ‘ until she had made an agreement with His Majesty for the disafforestment thereof . |
| 23 | She had decided to come to Italy knowing that she would n't rest until she had seen the situation for herself . |
| 24 | He waited until she had closed the door then went back up , making as little noise as possible . |
| 25 | Her mother , Frances , stayed with him until she had produced the son he so desperately wanted , but when Diana was just six years old her mother left home . |
| 26 | He stood up when she came in and waited until she had taken the chair on the other side of the desk . |
| 27 | She had her difficulties , too , or she would have been with him by this ; but she was as much the prisoner of circumstances as he , and could not well take ship until she had established a firm and safe regime for her young son . |
| 28 | Sister Ignatia had said that Flora could n't know whether she wanted to come or not until she had had a sniff of the place , seen some of the other girls . |
| 29 | Harry contemplated his highly polished shoes until she had left the room . |
| 30 | Xanthe sucked each leaf of her artichoke thoroughly , leaving precise teeth marks above the fleshy pad , then laid each one down on a plate in overlapping circles until she 'd formed a rosette , a second artichoke that looked almost untouched . |