Example sentences of "until [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rubs it absently , accosting strangers in the street , seeking out a friend and within minutes exclaiming that he wants to be by himself , watching children wistfully , accusing wellwishers of persecuting him with their kindness ; until at last he explodes on the brink of confession in a terrible universal cry : ‘ Oh , if only I were alone and nobody loved me , and if only I had never loved anyone ! ’ |
| 2 | Then he 'd sit for a while , occasionally glancing at the figure next to him , until at last he 'd lean towards the other 's ear . |
| 3 | Leora personified the courage : I remember her trying to calm her screaming autistic son , taking him in her arms , rocking him , comforting him , until at last he became tranquil and quiet and she was left with his violence in her . |
| 4 | After admiring the wagtail for a while , I went on until at last I reached the Round Tower . |
| 5 | To prevent this , his friends would soothe him with music , cool water and adoring maidens until at last he would ‘ come to himself . |
| 6 | This massive forced deportation concluded Charles ' conquest of Saxony , for as a chronicler records ‘ henceforth they abandoned worship of evil spirits , and gave up the wicked customs of their forefathers , received the sacrament of Christian baptism , mingling with the Franks until at last they were reckoned as one race … ’ |
| 7 | A few at a time Martha 's companions would turn into their own yards , until at last she continued alone to the highest village in the valley , her uniform a civilised patch of blue and white against the wild green tracery of the jungle . |
| 8 | The forest became a blur of green around her until at last she tore into Mada Joyce 's yard , her long limbs flailing , sending the fowls squawking under the house in panic . |
| 9 | … on , on , on tears the mad dragon of an engine … scattering in all directions a shower of burning sparks from its wood fire ; screeching , hissing , yelling , panting ; until at last the thirsty monster stops beneath a covered way to drink … and you have time to breathe again . |
| 10 | The ground was soft but fear ploughed the wheel through it , until at last I saw the Land Rover , silhouetted on a spit of amber . |
| 11 | Panting , she struggled on and up until at last she stood beside Chuck . |
| 12 | She , still thrilled with the beauty of the world , refused to go until at last , angered , her father used his powers of enchantment to put the giants into a deep sleep and turned his daughter Tamara in to a silver flowing stream . |
| 13 | She yelled at the top of her lungs , calling again and again until at last he heard her terrified screams . |
| 14 | W. E. H. Lecky in his History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe said ‘ Amusements that were once universal passed from the women to the men , from the upper to the lower classes , from the virtuous to the vicious , until at last the Legislature interposed to suppress them . ’ |
| 15 | Then his wife died on the trek and he and his daughter walked into India and asked people everywhere — Did they know where Padre Appleton was ? until at last he tracked us down to Poona . |
| 16 | It was the same story every time : nothing at all until at last the significance of the date went home — ‘ But that was the day it was snowing , do n't you remember ? ’ |
| 17 | Any punter would be delighted to place a bet on the understanding that if his horse were to lose he would be able to transfer his stake to another horse in the next race — in STV terms , to another candidate in the next count — and perhaps even to another and yet another until at last he had backed a winner . |
| 18 | She skips and twists among them , sniffing their hind-quarters , until at last she finds the two she seeks , her own young , and leads them away to the shade of a bush and there lets them suckle . |
| 19 | The salmon can recognise this cocktail first in a generalised way in the brackish water of an estuary and then with increasing precision as they follow it into smaller and smaller tributaries until at last they reach the shallows where it exactly matches the prescription demanded by their nostrils . |
| 20 | Exploiting the glueyness of spider silk , a hummingbird will prod it repeatedly at a selected spot until at last it sticks . |
| 21 | Until at last there was only one Callanish eagle left , a juvenile whom the others had sought to protect and so had prevented from joining in the fighting even though she had wanted to . |
| 22 | Until at last the whole site was shrouded in thick mist and she could see no more . |
| 23 | Until at last I saw him shooting off ahead of me in the form of a long lumpy thread , vibrating with moisture , which stretched ectoplasmically into the maw of the shuttling frame . |
| 24 | A long , long , unutterably tedious wait in the lint-filled darkness , until at last I felt the tension of the crane and realised that I was being lowered into the hold . |
| 25 | Trudging from one grey day into another , on and on , until at last it does n't matter any more , or so it seems . |
| 26 | She kept her hand over her eyes until at last Westerman halted the discussion and summed up . |
| 27 | An assistant might serve for years as the keeper of a specific book , being required to follow the paths of investigation which were suggested by the information absorbed , until at last connections were made with other disciplines . |
| 28 | She screamed for most of that night until at last she fell asleep . |
| 29 | Shaking his head , angry , he quietened her , until at last she dropped her hands and stopped gabbling and turned back into her shop . |
| 30 | Beethoven 's sketchbooks reveal how often his first visionary ideas were modified — chopping and changing until at last they fall into shapes of full significance . |