Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] until [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The incidence of crowd misbehaviour reached a high point before the First World War , fell between the two World Wars , and continued to fall until the late-1950s , since when it continued to increase quite rapidly ( Dunning et al. , 1982 ; 1984 ) . |
| 2 | The sustained development of the study of the diseases of later life had to wait until the nineteenth-century . |
| 3 | To find out who was correct , we had to wait until the following morning and our debriefing with the major . |
| 4 | The English translation had to wait until the 1970s . |
| 5 | Goals in the first five minutes by Dennis Greene and Keith Scott set the Buckinghamshire side on the path to victory , but they had to wait until the 68th minute before Simon Stapleton settled the issue . |
| 6 | Women had to wait until the Second World War before invading station employment once more . |
| 7 | Although enjoying the bulk of the possession Ipswich had to wait until the 29th minute before forcing Wright to make his first save , Zondervan hitting a long-range shot which the Newcastle goalkeeper tipped over . |
| 8 | Manchester United at home to Bolton were held to a goal-less first half first forty five minutes , and they had to wait until the seventy seventh minute before taking the lead through Hughes , and United go through with a one nil win . |
| 9 | Halling had to wait until the 1939–45 war when a military bridge was erected and a road laid down and for a few years the people of Wouldham and Halling were able to move freely between the villages , which was a great asset to the people of Wouldham who used the bridge to get to work on this side of the river , but it was certainly the death knell of the ferry . |
| 10 | Dominating for most of the tie , Eppleton had to wait until the 47th minute before Neil Scott forced a way through a resolute Cleadon defence . |
| 11 | Elizabeth I , whose delicate long fingers feature so prominently in her portraits , started a fashion for lily-white skin , but we had to wait until the 1880s for the advent of polished nails in Britain . |
| 12 | With Lloyd Davies in a new attacking role , the combination took time to settle , and crowds had to wait until the 1911–12 season to see the old magic at work again . |
| 13 | But the war stopped progress and the world had to wait until the 1950s for the next major innovations in civilian flight . |
| 14 | FORMBY always looked the better side but had to wait until the 85th minute before they gained their just reward , Paul Proctor scoring . |
| 15 | Regeling , who had one nasty fall , had to wait until the last race for his first win . |
| 16 | Marty Tabb almost grabbed an immediate equaliser when he rattled the crossbar from 18 yards , but the Reds had to wait until the 55th minute to get back on level terms . |
| 17 | But the England under-21 midfielder only had to wait until the 53rd minute to exact his revenge when he chipped in a telling cross for Goodman to score . |
| 18 | Liverpool enjoyed almost total domination but faced with a team who pulled all 11 players back behind the ball they had to wait until the 38th minute before adding their second . |
| 19 | We had to wait until the next day before we got the results . |
| 20 | Branson was fully aware that even if the Americans decided to grant permission , it was likely that it would not be given until a day or two before the flight — retaliatory treatment for the way the British government had delayed until the eleventh hour and fifty-ninth minute permission for People Express to fly into Britain . |
| 21 | He continued to work until a few years ago and from then on passed much of his time in London . |
| 22 | In Britain the scanty government services provided to the nation 's merchants had come until the 1860s almost entirely from the board of trade . |
| 23 | One study showed that about half of teenage mothers did not go to the antenatal clinic until the third or fourth month , almost one in five had waited until the fifth month of pregnancy , and a few did not go at all . |
| 24 | Instead they stayed talking until the small hours , telling me of the strokes they 'd pulled and the mischief they 'd got into as kids — right under my unsuspecting nose ! |