Example sentences of "had [verb] until [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The sustained development of the study of the diseases of later life had to wait until the nineteenth-century .
2 To find out who was correct , we had to wait until the following morning and our debriefing with the major .
3 The English translation had to wait until the 1970s .
4 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 .
5 Women had to wait until the Second World War before invading station employment once more .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 But the war stopped progress and the world had to wait until the 1950s for the next major innovations in civilian flight .
13 FORMBY always looked the better side but had to wait until the 85th minute before they gained their just reward , Paul Proctor scoring .
14 Regeling , who had one nasty fall , had to wait until the last race for his first win .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 We had to wait until the next day before we got the results .
19 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 .
20 In Britain the scanty government services provided to the nation 's merchants had come until the 1860s almost entirely from the board of trade .
21 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 .
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