Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] until " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be possible to search through the file until the record was located , but this technique , and the more refined methods available for searching sequential files in which there is no direct relationship between the record key and its storage location , are too slow for the needs of most enquiry systems . |
| 2 | Use several swabs to swab round the mouth until it is clean . |
| 3 | If that does n't score highly enough to win a contest the next stage is to grapple on the ground until one player wins by holding down an opponent for 30 seconds . |
| 4 | All the tug could do then was to stand by the tow until the gale abated . |
| 5 | He said that the FIA tribunal had no right to rule on the case until a hearing in Portugal and should not have heard representation from Mansell and Ferrari at a hearing in Paris last Thursday . |
| 6 | The FIA tribunal postponed any decision , but Balestre said it had no right to rule on the case until after the Portuguese hearing and should not have heard representation . |
| 7 | They continued to scrabble on the floor until all the spilt items had been retrieved . |
| 8 | Gilman employed ‘ scientific ’ experiments described by him as follows : ‘ The observer , an intelligent man with good eyesight , and well accustomed to museums and their contents , was instructed to answer the questions with the least possible exertion and to hold the position he needed to assume for the purpose until he could be photographed . ’ |
| 9 | I was determined to get him , and must have been concentrating so intently on his movements that , like a fool , I forgot to look in the mirror until it was too late . |
| 10 | He had rushed home , had a hasty meal , changed into evening-dress , and gone to the Capital cinema at Ibrox — to play in the orchestra until the last show , ending at 10.30 p.m . |
| 11 | Under a conditional sale agreement the buyer will be in possession of goods which will continue to belong to the seller until all the instalments have been paid . |
| 12 | Meryl tucked the papers under her arm and decided to walk around the boundary until she came to an alternative entrance . |
| 13 | The ward nurse may be asked to remain with the patient until fully anaesthetized . |
| 14 | This caused them to sink into the ground until the crossbar was only two inches above the grass . |
| 15 | My best course would have been to follow the track to the village , strike the road , and then to go along the road until I met the track by which I had come from the shore . |
| 16 | The main anti-apartheid parties , unbanned by the government in February 1990 are : the African National Congress ( ANC , Oliver Tambo , pres. , Nelson Mandela , deputy pres. ) ; the Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ; Clarence Makwetu was elected president in December after the death in October of Zephania Mothopeng ; PAC general secretary is Benny Alexander — see pp. 37765 , 37910 ) ; the PAC refuses to negotiate with the government until a constituent assembly has been elected by universal suffrage ; the Azanian People 's Organization ( Azapo , Pandelani Nefolovhodwe , pres. ) , which rejects outright any negotiations with the government ; and the South African Communist Party ( SACP , Joe Slovo gen. sec. ) , which re-launched itself as a legal political party within South Africa in July 1990 . |
| 17 | Staff at London 's Games Store had sold little of anything to do with the war until the war-games club of an American military base in Britain cleared them out of T-55 tanks ( Iraq 's main battle tank ) and German armoured personnel carriers ( used by the Saudis ) . |
| 18 | In this climate , the academic in English and other subjects in the humanities , who is busy , who publishes a lot , who goes to conferences , can not but be preferred to the quiet scholar , who keeps a low profile , even seems rather idle , but is taking his time over a major piece of scholarly writing that may involve many years ' work and which he does not intend to give to the world until he is ready . |
| 19 | He was going to wait in the corridor until Kopyion came out , and he would confront him . |
| 20 | The other 132 were senior state employees responsible for the management of public funds , who were required to remain in the country until a routine administrative review was performed by government auditors . |
| 21 | I would give him a fresh buttonhole every day to go to the university until he said he did n't like it . |
| 22 | Mills does n't expect REM to go on the road until after their 1993 record is released . |
| 23 | At least financial agencies have some pressure to provide funds at competitive rates , and builders to guard against pricing themselves out of the market , but landowners just have to sit on the land until they get the price they demand . |
| 24 | Miss Honey stared hard into the other woman 's wet grey eyes , and she allowed the silence to hang in the air until Mrs Wormwood became uncomfortable . |
| 25 | He continued to teach in the university until his wife died , when he resumed his Fellowship and took Orders . |
| 26 | His favourite horse was shot and draped over the grave and a dreamer bell was suspended over the chief 's body , to ring in the wind until a white man stole it in 1874 . |
| 27 | They 've got to , she 's got to stay on the boat until they 're gon na try and find her somewhere else to sleep |
| 28 | And the thing is , that Barry does n't really want to get on the plane until it 's all sorted out . |
| 29 | The corrective operation could not be undertaken until the child was three months old , and the doctor recommended that the child should be allowed to stay at the hospital until she was due for surgery , her condition producing difficulties in feeding . |
| 30 | For example : I expect her to obey me when I make a reasonable request or command , so that , if ( say ) I ask her to remain at the table until she 's finished her meal , she does so without endless arguments or fits of temper . |