Example sentences of "until [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | Not until I arrived on the 18th tee 1-down did it suddenly occur to me that I was on the point of losing . |
2 | I agree with everything you 've said until you got to the last bit . |
3 | I had thought that if you were not following with a score to marvel at Rattle 's ability to achieve those dynamics so accurately , you would probably feel alienated until you arrived at the next big moment . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | On we went , par after par , until we got to the 16th and I thought , this must be it . |
6 | The trees had thinned out a little , the closer they got to the coast , until they passed by the last of them and stepped on to sand that seemed to stretch endlessly in either direction . |
7 | He first became an MP in 1841 as member for Newark and , apart from a break between 1847 and 1850 , he remained in the Commons until he succeeded as the seventh Duke of Rutland in 1888 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | He walked silently along the thickly carpeted floor until he came to the last cubicle . |