Example sentences of "held [adv prt] until the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dependants ' benefits will disappear as they are being held down until the universal child benefit catches up with them . |
| 2 | It has to be held off until the stick reaches the full aft position , just like a taildragger , and then it will sink quickly onto the main undercarriage first . |
| 3 | Hunt 's steadily deflating tyre held up until the last corner before the pits ; in he came for a tyre change . |
| 4 | He maintained that the construction of the flood barriers ( based on the MOSE prototype : see The Art Newspaper , No. 15 , February 1992 , p.1 ) would not be held up until the de-pollution programme was completed : plans and experimental work on the flood barriers would go ahead while the environmental problems were being dealt with and experimental work should be completed by the beginning of 1994 . |
| 5 | Jimmy Fitzgerald 's six-year-old , always held up until the last possible moment when racing over timber , was left in the lead four out in the Betting Spy Novices ' Chase . |
| 6 | There will be other forms of contingency strategy , where home care spending — perhaps up to one-third of the overall allocation — is deliberately held back until the residential and nursing home spend settles down into a recognisable pattern . |