Example sentences of "or [adv] until " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Mafouz tacked one way , it would move in the other , and when he swerved round to get it once more in his sights it would sidle left or right until it was sure it was once again in his blind spot . |
| 2 | Junctions controlled by police or a traffic warden , when all traffic is held up by police officer or traffic warden you must not go left or right until you are signalled to do so . |
| 3 | IT WAS THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS AND ANTHONY HAD COME HOME FOR good , or rather until he found a job . |
| 4 | Place your eye close to the drop and adjust the strip slightly up or down until you can see a highly magnified picture of the letters on the newspaper . |
| 5 | Occasionally athletes are kept waiting at the start for a minute or so until television is ready . |
| 6 | Put the filling into the pre-baked pastry case and bake at 350°F ( 180°C ) gas mark 4 for 20 min or so until it is hot and just set . |
| 7 | Unfortunately the tight filming schedule could not wait for just two weeks or so until a suitable engine ( ie a 4F 0-6-0 ) arrived at Bury . |
| 8 | He had the good grace to apologise afterwards and I also expressed my gratitude that I did not have to wait an hour or so until the training was finished before I could obtain his team and get busy . |
| 9 | Once home , float their bag(s) in the tank , and after twenty minutes or so add a little tank water , repeating the process over the next hour or so until the fish have adjusted ( if necessary ) to your tank water . |
| 10 | In the next week or so until I met up with him again I was suffused with wild imaginings . |
| 11 | In Bridget 's case , her subsequent boyfriend stayed around for a year or so until she and her family moved house . |
| 12 | Still in his pyjamas and with his foot in plaster , he would hobble 500 metres or so across some fields until he reached a track , then carry on for another 500 metres or so until he reached a proper road . |
| 13 | She thanked me every five minutes or so until we 'd finished . |
| 14 | The bacteria reproduce every 20 minutes or so until the food source has expired and the smell gone . |
| 15 | Once initial control has been achieved , a maintenance sclerotherapy programme should be instituted with repeated injections every three weeks or so until thrombosis of the varices has been achieved and subsequent periodic checks every three to six months to ensure maintenance of variceal occlusion . |
| 16 | RIVER CROSSENS : Good fishery but often slow for the first week or so until fish located . |
| 17 | Where a civil wrong has been committed by a partner under the authorisation of the other partners or as part of the normal business of the firm , then the plaintiff may pursue the partners collectively or separately until judgment is satisfied . |
| 18 | It is true that some local authorities will not say whether you are eligible or not until a place has been put on offer to you , but it 's still very much worth your while to find out all you can from your local education authority . |
| 19 | Sister Ignatia had said that Flora could n't know whether she wanted to come or not until she had had a sniff of the place , seen some of the other girls . |
| 20 | ‘ Yet , your Grace , with all the goodwill in the world , I can not repay this year , or not until after the harvest . |
| 21 | Delays or frustrations are indicated as November gets underway , so keep your options open until the Full Moon on the 10th — or preferably until after the Sun conjuncts Pluto on the 14th — when plans , contracts or important arrangements will be confirmed . |
| 22 | Now I do n't think that 's right , fair or democratic and if we 've shied away from it for years handling this issue and now we 're in the position where this house has total responsibility for the thirty thousand citizens in total of Gibralt it 's not the electorate , the total population , thirty thousand and we continued to deny them vote yet they are citizens of the European union under our own legislation and accepted as such by the European parliament and it is wholly wrong Mr Deputy Speaker that the boundaries that we 're discussing in this bill were not drawn so that and it could easily have been done , that we could have incorporated the twenty odd thousand European union citizens of Gibraltar who do wish to be part of Spain and wo n't be for fifty years or more until it 's been a democracy that long , but to give them the right to vote . |
| 23 | The Court of Appeal , on his appeal against his conviction for theft upon one count covering all three consignments , on the ground that the count was bad for duplicity in that there were three separate appropriations , held that there had been no appropriation until the last of the goods were loaded , or probably until the defendant deviated from the route to the proper destination . |
| 24 | But because agriculture has n't been in G A T T or up until recently has n't been in G A T T agricultural protectionism has grown throughout that period right . |
| 25 | birthday was on the eighth of September or before , if it was in the summer holidays or up until the eighth of September , you could leave school and my birthday was the eighth of September so I left school at fourteen . |
| 26 | However , before stopping the process , it is recommended that you Set Facilities Unavailable using Option 7.4.0 for a period ( usually 30 minutes ) , or ideally until the main image goes into VMS state HIB ( $SHOW PROCESS /ID= |