Example sentences of "[adv prt] until they [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was clear that they were in a trap but still they went on until they reached a roadside filling station and café . |
| 2 | The youths drove on until they reached a stretch of unmade road where they pulled up , but quickly left after they were disturbed by the sound of a barking dog . |
| 3 | But sales will not really take off until they become a standard quality-control feature on production lines . |
| 4 | If you turn round and say , well you know you 're just putting us up until they get a place |
| 5 | Only where industries used coal directly , like the forges of Sheffield , were towns yet blackened and the air poisoned ; and only where they produced ‘ waste ’ in great quantities , such as in coal-mining , glassworks and chemicals , was the landscape beginning to acquire that sterile covering of ‘ tips ’ , that were destined to go on piling up until they produced a mountain landscape in miniature ; until the vast range of coal-tips around the old town of Wigan , for example , could be sardonically nicknamed the Wigan Alps and be illustrated in later years under that name on picture postcards . |
| 6 | Angry Kath Patient locked the council team in her flat and refused to let them out until they replaced a leaking boiler . |