Example sentences of "[prep] it until [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her action was so swift that he was hardly aware of it until the stone struck him full in the face . |
| 2 | One scheme was to transfer his legal estate to a relative or friend who was staying behind , who could look after it and administer it until he returned , or who , should the knight die abroad , could take care of it until the knight 's son reached his majority and could take it over himself . |
| 3 | Some workmen had left a wooden board on the pavement beside the bus stop and Katy danced on top of it until the bus arrived . |
| 4 | The world does not wake up to it until a TV report captures the popular imagination at the end of the year . |
| 5 | He went into hospital to have his piles sorted out , but nobody knew anything about it until the treatment was over — and then there were more Williams ‘ bum ’ stories . |
| 6 | So father says , Well just keep quiet about it until the funeral 's over . |
| 7 | We tried tooth and nail and finally impaled it on a thorn tree , tugging at it until the branch flew off and hurtled us into a ditch . |
| 8 | The plucky little hedgehog kept at it until the dog dish was empty and not a scrap remained . |
| 9 | Incorporating the bare bones of the original , William Orbit uses Smith 's weary voice as the base , building around it until the whole resembles a gigantic sci-fi puzzle set to music . |
| 10 | Incorporating the bare bones of the original , William Orbit uses Smith 's weary voice as the base , building around it until the whole resembles a gigantic sci-fi puzzle set to music . |