Example sentences of "[vb pp] until the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said it was a tactical kind of game , a bit like ‘ a friendly form of warfare ’ where the game was never won until the last shot . |
| 2 | Many MPs suspect no announcement on the decision will be made until the last day before the summer recess to avoid a Parliamentary row . |
| 3 | These develop into tiny animals so unlike their parents that the connection between adults and offspring was not recognised until the last century . |
| 4 | Popular consciousness of PR had been limited until the last week of the campaign , underlining the argument that , while constitutional reform is popular among the chattering classes , it is not popular among the mass of voters . |
| 5 | The clear message from the budget was that the next general election should be delayed until the last minute , in June 1992 . |
| 6 | ‘ As Kim Bailey does n't like making up his mind about where his horses run until the last minute , it 's been difficult to try for outside rides . |
| 7 | This ritual was practised until the last decade or so but has apparently now ceased , which is perhaps in the best interests of the dolphins . |
| 8 | Observers from Russia , Portugal ( Angola 's former colonial master ) and America , who had spent much of the six weeks drafting and redrafting endless versions of the ‘ Abidjan protocol ’ — the peace agreement that never was — worked until the last minute trying to reformulate this point to make it acceptable to both sides . |
| 9 | Rangers ' selection for Brugge will , under the circumstances , be left until the last moment . |
| 10 | Plantagenet intervention against France in the Low Countries and the Empire was not to be revived until the last decade of the century . |
| 11 | This building programme from W to E meant that the Gothic E end was retained until the last moment . |
| 12 | She suggests that in the 1850s divorce became the ‘ solution ’ to the threat of a Married Women 's Property Act ( not achieved until the last quarter of the nineteenth century ) , which would have threatened ‘ the symbolic economy that depended on and institutionalized ( such ) binary oppositions ’ . |
| 13 | I would n't get dressed until the last minute because I thought I would be late and therefore would not have to go to school . |