Example sentences of "[to-vb] in the [noun] until " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He was going to wait in the corridor until Kopyion came out , and he would confront him . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He continued to teach in the university until his wife died , when he resumed his Fellowship and took Orders . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This defect was ingeniously got over by developing a hardener which could be painted by itself on to one half of the joint while the glue was painted on the other half , nothing began to happen in the glue until the two halves were brought together . |
| 9 | African rivers run underground for part of the year so the villagers would often have to dig in the sand until water seeped through . |