Example sentences of "[adv] until [art] [noun sg] ['s] " in BNC.

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1 They could n't get me to come in until every marshal 's flag on the circuit was flapping .
2 Sweetheart was going to be a model , too , but not until the school 's principal found the good sense to send her maliciously jealous sisters-in-law packing .
3 It was not until the murderer 's long soliloquy that we were able to look around ; frozen as we were in profile , our eyes searched you out , first confidently , then hesitantly , then desperately as each patch of turf , each log , every exposed corner in every direction proved uninhabited , and all the while the murderous King addressed the horizon with his dreary interminable guilt …
4 Mark Wright , who was Mr Souness 's first signing last summer and was made club captain in December , was also confident that the Anfield machinery , which has been close to breaking point several times this season , will run smoothly until the manager 's expected return in July .
5 Cranston leaned over the table , placing his hands over those of Fitzosbert and pressing down hard until the keeper 's face paled and beads of sweat broke out on his brow .
6 Perhaps tonight 's events would , however , at least until the Society 's suspicions had been allayed .
7 He was a suspect , at least until the analyst 's reports had cleared him .
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