Example sentences of "until three " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the children grew up , the stories remained in a drawer until three years ago when Mr Driscoll , who owned a mail order business , decided to publish them . |
| 2 | The films may not be released until the following year and probably will not break even ( including interest costs ) until three years after that . |
| 3 | Could it be that his wife Elizabeth , who was secretary of labour until three months ago , wanted another push in the campaign she launched last May ? |
| 4 | Well , I waited up until three o'clock in the morning and he crawled in with footmarks all over his nice new suit where he 'd fallen on the floor and let everybody trample over him , blood pouring down his shirt from a head wound , a balloon tied round his neck and a paper hat on . |
| 5 | Not until three weeks later did he pass on to colleagues in the CIA , and to Casey , the thought that ‘ perhaps we are overcharging … to send money to the contras . ’ |
| 6 | Thus the time passes until three , when I go … to a Dutch officer to give him a lesson in galanterie and thoroughbass , for which I receive … four ducats for twelve lessons . |
| 7 | Sandy , at three in the morning , watching Boy : ‘ If I was built like that I would n't wait until three o'clock to take my shirt off . ’ |
| 8 | Or perhaps he felt he had no choice , perhaps he did n't know about the other places in the city which he could have gone to ; anyway he became a real regular , and soon he was there most nights , in fact every night , six nights a week , The Bar being open every day of the week except Monday , usually from the afternoon and always until three a.m. ( at least officially ) . |
| 9 | The Execution Dock , Wapping , east London , where , until the eighteenth century , pirates were hanged at low-water mark and their bodies left dangling in chains until three tides had flowed over them . |
| 10 | When you came back , you stayed there until three . |
| 11 | And if they come out with that line : ‘ Oh but mum , everyone else 's mum lets them stay out until three in the morning/hitch a lift home from Glastonbury/take the short cut across the meadow at night/ride a bike without wearing an orange band … ’ then find out what other parents really think . |
| 12 | But it was not until three mornings later that I spotted a horse and cart arrive . |
| 13 | I am not suggesting that my aunt 's remark served as some sort of trigger for my disease , because I did not in fact become anorexic until three or four years later . |
| 14 | UNTIL three weeks ago Detective Sergeant Robin Window led a busy but otherwise unremarkable life . |
| 15 | That was bad enough , but when he told my daughter it started three weeks after they married and lasted until three months ago , she threw him out and she 's changed the locks of the house and says she will divorce him . |
| 16 | Saints again struggled to get going in the second half and had to wait until three minutes from time for their final try through Hunte after numerous handling mistakes . |
| 17 | He did not receive important legal documents relating to his case — including the testimony of witnesses — until three years after the trail ended . |
| 18 | Eleanor Ramsay did not become pregnant until three years later . |
| 19 | The kids had already been put in voluntary care due to the car crash and I could n't get them back until three months after I came out . |
| 20 | He had been hiding out , sleeping rough , until three days ago when he arrived in Paris to look up another man indebted to him . |
| 21 | There has been some difference of opinion as to what that case decided , but there is no dispute that the court held that the postponement of the consultation process with the Lord Chief Justice and the trial judge until three years after sentence was unlawful , and that it should take place as soon as possible after conviction . |
| 22 | The screws eventually brought in a booking system but refused to put the bath book out until three o'clock . |
| 23 | Stein and his staff had also filled , in principle , the several hundred other posts , but most of these members of staff would not take up their positions until three weeks before the hotel 's grand opening , timed to tie in with a huge party which Stephen was throwing for island dignitaries and specially invited celebrities , Michael Stein had proved his worth yet again in sending off invitations to the party , offering a free week 's holiday to various A-list showbiz and society figures . |
| 24 | It was arranged that Hetty would stay on in the shop for a while , and Sarah would work from ten o'clock until three for the first few weeks . |
| 25 | ‘ I took extra care about everything and , after the last time , we decided to wait until three months before telling everyone . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 've even tried staying out until three in the morning ! ’ |
| 27 | To that extent , the Circular received a cautious welcome in the art world , but nothing very concrete occurred until three years later when , on 1 September 1974 , the NCDAD merged with the CNAA . |
| 28 | I did n't see The Young Can Suffer until three weeks after he was killed . ’ |
| 29 | That theory was never disputed until three months ago . |
| 30 | One of these er , I suppose it 'd be a ballpoint or whatever you call it and this , I 've still got it , it says on the Queen Elizabeth , see , and er , you see , we said , we said , well never mind very much , we can have something a snack afterwards and so we stayed on there from eleven o'clock in the morning until three in the afternoon , you see , and er er and we were wandering around and we saw the dining room , we saw the captain 's table and er , you know it was , and , and then we looked along one deck , we were high up , and down below there were rows of , rows of lifeboats in case you see |