Example sentences of "until [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not see her again until during the afternoon lessons , when I noticed that she had been sent to stand alone in the middle of the schoolroom . |
| 2 | It had not been contended in the course of the case that there was not a sale , until during the debate in your Lordships ' House that suggestion was made , and I think that , beyond doubt , anyone , who in answer to the advertisement acquired a record , would say that he had bought it and would be surprised that any doubt should be cast upon what he regarded as an obvious fact . |
| 3 | She spent seven years working for Harper 's Bazaar as a fashion illustrator , also producing book illustrations , and did not really begin to concentrate on painting until during the war , whilst living near Regent 's Park which inspired the spiky pastoralism which often served as a poignant background to her paintings of children . |
| 4 | Although through the efforts of Charlemagne , who was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope in the year 800 , the centre of European culture began to move northwards from the Mediterranean , the Viking raids of the ninth and tenth centuries delayed the full effects of this until about the year 1000 . |
| 5 | But the Glynns did n't actually come to live next to their shop until about the time Matthew got married . |
| 6 | This generally approving judgement has characterised work on the Poor Law up until about the time of the American Revolution . |
| 7 | It is the stage ( going on until about the age of four years ) that is dominated by the control of the bladder and bowels . |
| 8 | Piaget ( Piaget , Jean , The Child ' s Conception of Number , Chapter I , Routledge & Kegan Paul , 1952 ) has described many experiments of this type with children of four years upwards and concluded that it was not until about the age of seven that children were able to see that a quantity of liquid remains constant although it appears to change when poured into different shaped containers . |
| 9 | The border line between England and Scotland , the West Marches , along the line of the River Esk and its tributary , the Liddle , was recognised by all , at least up until about the end of the fifteenth century . |
| 10 | This period lasted until about the end of the sixties . |
| 11 | Well I mean you ca n't have rules without a police force , can you , and since there 's no poets ' union from which you could be expelled , clearly whether there are any rules depends entirely on the poets themselves and their readers , and everybody knows that until about the end of the nineteenth century almost all poetry was written in regular metre and regular patterns and , except for blank verse , in regular rhyme , and that this is no longer so and now you would either be deliberately old fashioned or you would have some special purpose , I think , if you wrote your poems in traditional rhyming schemes . |
| 12 | But it might be more appropriate to wait until nearer the time to send a memo , I do n't know . |
| 13 | She would not cry here ; she would wait until after the wake , when she was alone . |
| 14 | As an example , consider the situation of a three-piece band who are about to receive £100,000 as a record company advance ( and they have taken the decision to delay any possible publishing advances until after the release of two singles from the forthcoming album ) . |
| 15 | Not until after the middle of the seventeenth century do we once more find a government clerk making use of verse as an outlet after he has become psychotic , and then , as he writes from the asylum , he has nothing to lose by revealing himself . |
| 16 | On the other question , new temples were not built on the Acropolis until after the middle of the century ( a ‘ Cimonian Parthenon ’ appears to me a mare 's nest , and even its proponent does not think it was begun before the sixties ; below , p. 93 ) . |
| 17 | Our next meeting did not take place until after the Budget in mid-March , but from then on the committee ran reasonably smoothly through to its seventh and last meeting at the start of April . |
| 18 | Mr Collin said this year 's poll tax bills will not be prepared until after the Budget tomorrow . |
| 19 | Ltd. v. United Dominions Trust Ltd. ( 1988 C.A. ) the buyer had discovered that the car had a leak but did not discover until after the contract the gravity of the leak or that it was incurable . |
| 20 | As these retirements were taking effect around Easter , I felt it better to wait until after the Easter celebrations before making any appointments . |
| 21 | Not , at least , until after the service . |
| 22 | But it was still a steam railway and remained so until after the turn of the century . |
| 23 | The proportion of the population over 65 will remain more or less constant until after the turn of the century , giving a respite in which to acquire knowledge and formulate policies . |
| 24 | As the Court on Oct. 13 shifted attention to the body of documentary evidence brought before it , it became clear that a decision on summoning the final witnesses , including Gorbachev , would be postponed until after the document stage . |
| 25 | He dismissed Mr Crook 's argument that the judges should have made orders postponing publication until after the jury 's verdict , instead of excluding the press and public . |
| 26 | The £1,800 earmarked for extensions and alterations to the Civic Centre had not in fact been turned down by the Liberal administration but had merely been cynically deferred until after the byelection ! |
| 27 | Police acknowledgement that this had n't actually happened was delayed until after the press coverage . |
| 28 | If firms believe devaluation is likely in the near future , they typically defer investment until after the event , to avoid writing down the asset value . |
| 29 | The members of the court held that the cause of action was not complete until after the birth of the plaintiff when the damages were suffered . |
| 30 | Pregnant single women , for example , were often taken in until after the birth . |