Example sentences of "until [pron] had [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She remembered an American Indian saying that you should n't condemn a man until you had walked a mile in his shoes . |
| 4 | Management offered to pay the workers for the lost days if they returned to work by Wednesday morning , but at a mass meeting on Tuesday 10 June workers voted 48 to 10 against resuming work and rejecting settlement proposals worked out between management and the union until they had seen a report from the Department of Labour Factory Inspectorate . |
| 5 | It was not until they had rounded a bend in the road , and the echoes of Master Thomas 's good wishes had long since died away , that Isabel managed to pull herself together enough to recall her resolution to put fitzAlan at a safe distance — and keep him there . |
| 6 | He remained silent until they had reached a flight of three stone steps between one lawn and a higher one , where Stephen was waiting . |
| 7 | Hitherto the ichthyostegids risked the desiccation of the unshielded eggs in a dry environment until they had perfected a method of laying them in a slimy , tapioca-like substance . |
| 8 | An observer moving out from the origin would find that initially the area of the spherical surface he reached would grow steadily with s until he had travelled a distance . |
| 9 | He was waiting on the Jackley Road outside a pub called the Ostrich , Kevin 's double in every particular until he had grown a moustache . |
| 10 | Intent now on a sharpish exit he banged with his helmet on the canopy until he had made a hole big enough to climb through . |
| 11 | He slid the car into gear and edged out on to the main road , waiting until he had overtaken a pair of cyclists before replying . |
| 12 | Characteristically it was Smith 's perfectionism that made him delay publishing the full proofs until he had found a way of checking his answers . |
| 13 | Without taking his eyes off him , he opened the drawer of his desk and felt about inside it until he had located a toffee . |