Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] until " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greville continued Sherer as his deputy for the two clerkships until Sherer 's death in 1598 and after that he appointed John Powell . |
| 2 | However , even a solitary point looked a far-fetched dream for the Scottish champions until 22-year-old substitute Gary McSwegan grabbed his first goal for the club in the 79th minute . |
| 3 | Japan 's stance over what it calls its Northern Territories has been that there can be no peace treaty between the two countries until all four of the islands ( Etorofu , Kunashiri , Shikotan and Habomai ) are returned . |
| 4 | Their veteran prop Kevin Ward commented : ‘ I never knew there was so much intense rivalry between the two clubs until I came to St Helens . |
| 5 | Little conversation had passed between the two detectives until , an hour out of Oxford , Morse ( looking , as Lewis saw him , still rather tired ) had crossed those final ‘ t's . |
| 6 | It was a tense match with not much to choose between the two sides until Scotland scored the first try near the end of the first half . |
| 7 | He took a small pin from the sleeve of his doublet and began to scrape between the yellow stumps until he extracted small , grey fragments still wet with mucus . |
| 8 | ‘ God , ca n't a man say anything in his own house without it being taken up wrong ? ’ and the quarrel circled about the two positions until he reached and took her in his arms . |
| 9 | Once again Benjamin used his warrant , pushing his way through the grumbling spectators until we had a good view of both the execution scene and Smithfield Common . |
| 10 | She pushed her way through the apprehensive nomes until she was face to face , or at least , since Nisodemus was standing on something and she was n't , face to chest . |
| 11 | All she had to do was steel herself to get through the forthcoming weeks until he returned to Hong Kong and she was left to immerse herself in this new job in peace , free of the distraction he constituted . |
| 12 | He urged them on through the mounting waves until they too reached the Rebecca , and he was able to ram one hole , fill it with pitch , then another , and another , round the hull beneath the overhang of the bows , in a rain of missiles , with fire sizzling around him , and his fellow fighters hanging on , hoping for the moment when the timbers would be ablaze . |
| 13 | The locks did n't come off the animal-house doors until Jenner had cleared out . ’ |
| 14 | Kalchu 's younger brother had come over from his neighbouring hut and the two men sat spinning , talking and looking after the small children until their wives returned . |
| 15 | At a meeting of the Slovak government on Oct. 13 , certain presidential powers were transferred to Meciar ; the Prime Minister was recognized as C.-in-C. of the armed forces until a president was elected , would represent the Slovak Republic externally , and would have certain judicial powers , according to Bratislava radio . |
| 16 | Such a clause does not relieve the parties from the obligation to register a registrable sale agreement , it merely suspends the operation of the relevant restrictions until particulars of the agreement have been furnished to the OFT . |
| 17 | Naturally , no one could move into any of the new flats until the presidential apartments in the palace were fit for the top comrades , so the Boulevard of the Victory of Socialism took on a ghostly lifeless quality with its empty layer of flats and its vacant shops on the ground floor . |
| 18 | In a sense , then , the cat 's reality was not ‘ fixed ’ into either of the two options until this moment — and the experimenter was personally responsible for ‘ fixing ’ it . |
| 19 | Then it passes this living tube of glue back and forth across the junction of the two leaves until a white silken sheet has been created , linking them . |
| 20 | The squalor remained through the troubles of the Civil Wars until a new prosperity was built on the growing export of corn in the later seventeenth century . |
| 21 | The librarian came back and said ‘ yes ’ , it was quite in order , as long as Roland was very careful not to disturb the sequence of the interleaved fragments until they had been listed and described . |
| 22 | The other option , of course , would have been to survive on a diet of the same bananas until help arrived . |
| 23 | Repeatedly doing this will move the cursor through all of the blank lines until it reaches the maximum . |
| 24 | Instead of a cow , there was a goat , tethered by a long chain ; and the milkmaid herself had , I believe , been a lecturer at one of the German universities until war came . |
| 25 | The Society has urged the Lord chancellor to suspend the operation of the proposed regulations until the matter can be fully considered by the courts . |
| 26 | In St Vincent , 2912 pilot whales were landed between 1962 and 1974 , and these ‘ blackfish ’ , as they are called , were the main quarry of the Vincentian whalers until the introduction of the US Marine Mammals Protection Act in 1972 closed the US market for whale oil . |
| 27 | As one of the first members recalled , ‘ When we reached thirteen most of us felt we were too big for the Sunday School , and there was a gap of a few years until we were able to join the YMCA at seventeen … |
| 28 | Simmer for a few minutes until the sauce is thickened . |
| 29 | The wireless crackled for a few moments until , after much jiggling with the knobs , the voice of Mr Chamberlain became clear . |
| 30 | She struggled for a few moments until , overcome apparently by shock , she lost consciousness . |