Example sentences of "until now they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His spies had plotted their course all the way , sending back word by a chain of messengers , until now they knew numbers and names , and were well aware that what they awaited was a national army , glittering with noble pedigrees , not all of them Scottish . |
| 2 | In the last 30 years , and long before the amalgamation in March of the white and black and brown rugby factions , the unions were gradually split and sub-divided until now they number perhaps 26. of these , 20 are rural , including Boland and Border , and have been weakened to a point where they are virtually powerless , impoverished , dying or dead . |
| 3 | Marx 's works had already begun to penetrate Russia earlier , but until now they had been used to buttress populist attacks on capitalism , rather than to develop a Marxist approach to revolution in Russia . |
| 4 | Their mothers and sisters looked upon them in a new way , because until now they had been sons and brothers , but were from that day to be turned into men by the strictest mistress of all . |
| 5 | Despite being so ubiquitous , until now they 've been solely a male preserve . |
| 6 | ‘ They have always said they will care for Jennifer completely , and until now they 've only allowed me to stand in for them , but it 's taking its toll . |
| 7 | Cut price classical CDs are n't new but until now they 've either been old recordings or foreign orchestras have been used with relatively obscure performers and conductors . |
| 8 | Until now they have represented a mass of public opinion which is noisy rather than articulate , and more remarkable for its courage than its ability to coalesce as an organised force . |
| 9 | Until now they have claimed it is a world away from the horrors just five hours ' down the road in Miami — so chillingly portrayed in the TV series Miami Vice . |
| 10 | Until now they have been spared the encounter with large ‘ megastores ’ , fast becoming commonplace in every major city . |
| 11 | Until now they have made a tidy profit from selling re-issued pop hits from the fifties , sixties and seventies . |
| 12 | Many veterans have revisited Archangel and Murmansk in peacetime , but until now they have had to travel by air or overland . |