Example sentences of "until one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until one morning in June 1988 when George Tyson turned on the radio to hear a small , investment business called Barlow Clowes had collapsed . |
| 2 | There was a time when she was interested in their politics , their science , their inventions , when she considered herself a small part of the great adventure , until one day the feeling was born in her that she did not belong among them . |
| 3 | She continued being ‘ the worst horse in the world ’ until one year she was served by yet another stallion ; but this time the stallion worked a genetic miracle upon the foal which was quite happy to be taught anything ! |
| 4 | Knox recounts how they piled up a great heap of stones at the place of martyrdom , and no matter that the priests had them removed , and threatened excommunication , they were always replaced , until one night the papists found the permanent solution , taking them away to build into walls . |
| 5 | People forget — until one day somebody realises a farmer is paying a rent established 30 years ago , and then all hell is let loose in the sleepy meeting in the back room of the pub . |
| 6 | I thought I had sufficiently mastered the vernacular to be idiot-proof until one time in the Smoky Mountains resort of Gatlinburg , Tennessee . |
| 7 | The heavy stone head remained in Modigliani 's cluttered studio until one day Modi marched up to Indenbaum at the Rotonde and said baldly , ‘ I 've sold your head ’ . |
| 8 | I had never heard of river engineers until one morning a very harassed engineer rang to ask me to persuade the lady in question not to tie herself to the ancient pollard which he intended to fell . |
| 9 | The coolness between the two men , but not between the sisters , continued until one day when Edward was obliged to seek medical advice . |
| 10 | Winnie 's natural nervousness about living alone continued , until one happy day when Jenny , her friend and daily help , arrived looking excited . |
| 11 | The other could n't figure this out until one day he found his friend jiggling the settings on his camera , systematically sabotaging his work . |
| 12 | He surfed the reef breaks — La Jolla , Windansea , Swamis — until one day someone came up to him and said , ‘ With the kind of lines you draw you should go and surf Hawaii . ’ |
| 13 | She had n't known this until one night , three years ago , when he had imbibed too liberally . |
| 14 | After Easter the hours are extended as follows : Tickets reserved by phone will be held for three days or where applicable , until one hour before the performance . |
| 15 | Tickets reserved by phone will be held for four days or where applicable , until one hour before the performance . |
| 16 | For we lived at 77 South Portland Street , top flat , right , all the time from the age of 18 months until one year before the Second World War ( 1938 ) when I was a 23 year-old vigorous young man , ready for anything . |
| 17 | So little Miss Schlegel will have to languish alone , ripening slowly in the California sunshine until one day I will turn up and have my way with her , quite possibly shouting , ‘ This one 's for Gloria Steinem ! ’ as I do so . |
| 18 | So Shitvolumes started preparing his next show as if I were going to be in it , until one day , just before The Jungle Book was about to go up , he came into the dressing room . |
| 19 | With Australian team-mate Danny Clark , he won 16 six-day races from the mid-80s until one night three years ago in Munich when a rookie Russian cannoned into him . |
| 20 | So how had this mutual aid , if that was all it was , slowly changed , so that their lives became interdependent , until one day it was love ? |
| 21 | There are many variations on this theme ; there are , for instance , the men who feel imprisoned by a bond , but , who , when it is broken , panic and want to build it up again , so creating a cycle which can run and run until one partner changes in attitude . |
| 22 | Royalties on such sale shall not become accountable as a sale until one month after the Publisher has actually received payment . |
| 23 | 8.3 Should the Publisher notify the Company in writing of a high risk sale of the Work then royalties on such sale shall not become accountable as a sale until one month after the Publisher has actually received payment . |
| 24 | Sinatra and Clift stayed close friends until one night , sometime after filming had been completed , Sinatra watched in repulsion as Clift made homosexual overtures to a guest at the party Sinatra was hosting , and had his bodyguards throw Clift out . |
| 25 | She told me how she wrote several letters to her home complaining of the punishment she was given and begging to be taken away but she received no reply until one day her brother paid her a visit and gave her the news that their parents were both dead . |
| 26 | Each day was blessed with the same strangely cool weather , until one evening the clear sky suddenly filled with haze and the new moon faded out of sight as though sailing out of orbit into oblivion . |
| 27 | THE magician and his talking parrot had been working an ocean liner , until one day the liner went down in fog . |
| 28 | After we moved up permanently , they continued to come each Christmas for four or five years until one year there was silence . |
| 29 | Instead , by the age of 15 , he was wasting his money endlessly playing computer games , until one day he discovered the Yellow Magic Orchestra , and then Kraftwerk , and then Asian music and various ethnic musics ( ‘ Sounded like techno to me , ’ he mutters ) . |
| 30 | Elstree now mastered in the ‘ Fury , he went from strength to strength until one day he took-off , put the wheels up and the lights would n't go out . |