Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adv] until " in BNC.
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| 1 | And since there is much talk of danger and imprisonment , perchance I should remain here until mama has been consulted . ’ |
| 2 | Safety represen representatives should place women 's safety on safety committee 's agenda and it should remain there until improvements are achieved . |
| 3 | There would therefore be ample time for them to deploy their mobile radiation monitoring teams , for the police to tour the area , knocking on doors and warning people living nearby , for the protective potassium iodate pills to be issued and for a decision to be made on whether the public should stay indoors until the cloud had passed — or evacuate to a safer place . |
| 4 | ‘ I am anxious that you should stay here until I return and I can not think of a better way of making sure you do than by putting you in charge of my property , ’ he explained . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , Daddy 's phoned the police , and they 're going to question the gipsies , so we must wait patiently until we hear from them , ’ said her mummy . |
| 6 | ‘ That should do now until I take out the stitches . ’ |
| 7 | Of course , I am missing her but I do n't think she should come home until she is well . |
| 8 | His own new powers , however , should last only until direct elections for a President were held . |
| 9 | I 'll stay there until I know something definite . ’ |
| 10 | Mike Belcher says he 'll stay there until he gets his old job back . |
| 11 | Perhaps I could stay here until nearer my time , then return for the birth ? |
| 12 | She 'd stay there until they docked in Ibiza if necessary . |
| 13 | She could sleep here until — until Maggie — came — in the morning . |
| 14 | The foreman used to live there until he got married and needed a bigger place , then Uncle let me have it . ’ |
| 15 | He still insisted that he alone was responsible to the French people for the actions of his government and would remain so until general elections could be held . |
| 16 | So Vi called them her last-day-of-peace roses and vowed they would remain there until the war was over , even if it lasted four years , like the last one had done . |
| 17 | She would stay there until Marion and her attendants left for the evening meal in the hall , then come out of her corner , stretch to ease the cramp in her legs , and check the baby again before slipping away out . |
| 18 | The first priority was to re-establish the team unity that had been allowed to dwindle , with the result that there had been much arguing and bickering The old inter-island rivalries that Worrell had eradicated had surfaced again , and he knew the team would accomplish little until these disappeared . |
| 19 | Unfortunately he had n't repeated that success and Inspector he had remained , and would do so until he left the force . |
| 20 | " I shall do so until you give me leave to be more familiar . " |
| 21 | I know it sounds thin , sir , but I spent a long time getting no further than that and I do n't think we shall do better until we have an angle — some sort of leverage . ’ |
| 22 | He would pump away until he was exhausted , as though by sheer force he could inject her with fertile seed . |
| 23 | As a result , one of the committee lost his temper and told Filmer he was the scum of the earth and no one in racing would sleep well until he was warned off which was the number one priority of the world 's racing authorities . ’ |
| 24 | As the child became more demanding in a more unpleasant manner the mother would respond negatively until a long sequence of shouting and hitting would develop . |
| 25 | Local residents who gathered at the site of the testing were assured by County Engineer Liam Mullins that nothing would go ahead until a full meeting of the County Council discussed the matter . |
| 26 | She wished the time would go faster until her holiday in Spain so she could go away , leave George and just enjoy herself . |
| 27 | I shall live here until these mountains crumble into the sea . |
| 28 | Then , gradually , her ideas would come together until , sitting on a stretch of grass and stabbing at it with the end of her parasol , she would repeat to herself , ‘ Oh God , why did I get married ? ’ ’ |
| 29 | " I shall sit here until you return . " |
| 30 | Silence , and then , ‘ We need one another , and I shall sit here until you let me in . |