Example sentences of "until it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She held the candle steady until it burned tall and pale , and the light swelled and smoothed the mellow wood of the walls , calling gaunt shadows out of empty air . |
| 2 | He walked along the same three or four streets twice until it seemed pointless to continue . |
| 3 | Equally it might be argued that since withdrawal from NATO was the last card he could play in his campaign against American influence , short of defecting from the West altogether , there were good reasons not to play it until it seemed likely to be effective or became absolutely necessary . |
| 4 | The German Air Ministry building in the Leipzigstrasse , for example , which had been a target since September 1940 , remained unscathed until it suffered slight damage in a US daylight raid in 1944 ! |
| 5 | The 80860 also formed the basis of Oki Electric 's server line until it folded last month . |
| 6 | Industry would be unwilling to invest further in recycling until it became profitable , he said . |
| 7 | The full sized engine would then have been worked on until it became feasible to exploit steam engines commercially . |
| 8 | Mr Wilson added that he was still pursuing the wider issues of the case until it became apparent whether the case of Ian X was unique . |
| 9 | Others followed suit until it became standard practice in the group . |
| 10 | Once this conventional world had been established , it was easily recreated until it became traditional . |
| 11 | Better to gamble that a private collector would keep the car until it became rare enough to warrant accepting it , if it were offered later . |
| 12 | Charity was against it , an attitude that astonished Clarissa at first , until it became plain that the strength of Charity 's reluctance was a measure of how much the pros and cons of the projected week-end in Paris meant for her . |
| 13 | The Capellans , indulgent as ever , had trusted them in ours until it became obvious the same hideous trick was about to be played again . |
| 14 | The Swiss arrogantly ignored the advent of new electronic watch technology until it became obvious that markets for their mechanical products , believed to be the best in the world , had all but disappeared . |
| 15 | They 'd danced to Michael 's band and her glossy pink trousers flashed and moved in the dimmed lights , and he had felt elated and mildly drunk , and had lost most of the inhibitions he 'd had about dancing , until it became clear to his confused brain that the drummer , who had soft dark hair and was probably a potential Celtic supporter , was getting on so well with Amanda that perhaps they should move on elsewhere , and he swayed out of the room , pushing her in front of him , and bumped into someone at the door , and had realised it was the man in the raincoat , only he was in a dark suit and a tie with geometric designs . |
| 16 | Finally , the mix of pro-fascist and pro-democratic elements was an indication that , in international as in domestic affairs , Franco 's preferred tactic was to keep all his options open until it became clear which side was going to win . |
| 17 | Following Japan 's defeat in 1945 , Korea was divided ; South Korea was occupied by United States forces until it became independent as the Republic of Korea in August 1948 . |
| 18 | Thinly washed colour was applied , then blended with the brush and pushed around until it felt right . |
| 19 | Soon , however , she did not have enough time to do this although someone had to relieve the poor beast , and the fresh creamy milk often sat in a gleaming churn in the corner of the kitchen untouched until it went rancid and had to be thrown away . |
| 20 | The rest came from increasing the electricity supply only until it met specific development needs . |
| 21 | until it reached sea-level where I knelt |
| 22 | After his return to the ward Mr Reynolds ' temperature rose slowly until it reached 37 C. On the first post-operative morning his temperature was above normal limits ( 37.8 C ) . |
| 23 | The fraction of the file in overflow did not markedly affect performance until it reached 30 per cent of the total file ; the only exception was the ICL fourteen-record bucket file , which began to perform worse as soon as additions were made . |
| 24 | It had a deep brim which widened towards the chin so that in profile the face would be hidden , and before she put it on Sarah brushed her unruly hair until it looked smooth , then she parted it in the middle and drew it tightly back . |
| 25 | The movement of a large number of sellers in the parallel market would drive down the price , and push up the yield until it equalled that in the discount market . |
| 26 | But we could n't go ashore until it got better ad then we went round the cape after and down into Aberdeen see . |
| 27 | She felt as fragile and foolish as a moth that beat itself against the hot glass of an electric bulb until it fell burned and spent , in its desperate doomed quest for the light . |
| 28 | A mule began to bray in alarm and a Myrcan struck it at once with his staff until it fell silent , blood oozing from its nose . |
| 29 | Built on the banks of the Tyne and opened in 1873 , it had been extended in 1893 until it stood three storeys high , 609 ft. long and 330 ft. wide . |
| 30 | Apparently this new method had been tried out down south and it seemed ideal for the temperamental Orkney climate because you harvested when it was green and then you put it in a pit and packed it with a tractor and then you left it until it turned black and rotted and then you cut it up in chunks and fed it to the cattle . |