Example sentences of "until [pron] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incensed by this heresy Pope Gregory I suppressed the academy in 605 , destroying its ancient halls and former pagan temples until nothing remained of the world 's first university . |
| 2 | I did n't even know what it was until I got to the studio . ’ |
| 3 | There was no reply , so I would have to contain my curiosity until I got to the golf course . |
| 4 | It came at once in the form of none other than the mighty Lord 's Prayer ; but it was n't until I got to the line about daily bread that I saw the light — I had n't given her any ! |
| 5 | I found the whisky , let myself out of the cellar and locked it , turned all the lights out , gave Mrs McSpadden the bottle , accepted a belated new-year kiss from her , then made my way out through the kitchen and the corridor and the crowded hall where the music sounded loud and people were laughing , and out through the now almost empty entrance hall and down the steps of the castle and down the driveway and down to Gallanach , where I walked along the esplanade — occasionally having to wave or say ‘ Happy New Year ’ to various people I did n't know — until I got to the old railway pier and then the harbour , where I sat on the quayside , legs dangling , drinking my whisky and watching a couple of swans glide on black , still water , to the distant sound of highland jigs coming from the Steam Packet Hotel , and singing and happy-new-year shouts echoing in the streets of the town , and the occasional sniff as my nose watered in sympathy with my eyes . |
| 6 | Nothing happened to me until I got off the Moon . |
| 7 | ‘ I was fine until I got on the pitch but then it all drained away and the game just passed me by . |
| 8 | I went with er Superintendent to er where we positioned ourselves in a control vehicle and er I remained there until I heard from the firearms team inside the house that all occupants of the house had been found and were secured . |
| 9 | As for the golf course , I had no idea how hilly Augusta National was until I went to The Masters , and there must be millions of people who still do n't know . " |
| 10 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 11 | now I thought I knew what that word meant until I came to the assembly . |
| 12 | I had to go about north-north-east , and if I hit the coast in the wrong place I could go first one way , then the other , until I came to the shingle where I had left the dinghy . |
| 13 | ‘ Did n't even know myself until I talked with the PM this afternoon . |
| 14 | All was going well until I knelt on the front overlap . |
| 15 | Not until I arrived on the 18th tee 1-down did it suddenly occur to me that I was on the point of losing . |
| 16 | It was not however , until I arrived in the country , and found myself surrounded by objects as strange as if I had been transported to another planet , that I conceived the idea of devoting a portion of my attention to the mammalian class of its extraordinary fauna . ’ |
| 17 | He stopped to watch her until she disappeared in the darkness . |
| 18 | Obviously , at the end of her service , she was too old for breeding and stayed with her handler until she died at the age of sixteen . |
| 19 | He remained as tenant , as did his sister after him until she died in the late sixties . ’ |
| 20 | For a Royal tour she always used to pull out the stops and literally shop until she dropped for the occasion . |
| 21 | They ate less and less , never venturing outside the villa , the physical aspect of their relationship consuming them both as Damian began to take her beyond her new-found sensuality , smashing barriers as he went , teaching her everything about her body and his until she thrilled to the power of knowing how to touch and kiss him to make him breathless with ecstasy , whispering incoherent , urgent words of encouragement to her until they both fell into their usual sleep of pleasurable exhaustion , completely united by the passion that raged just as highly between them now as it ever had from the very beginning . |
| 22 | Miss Fielding , from Stockport , presented Blue Peter for five years until she left in the summer . |
| 23 | Luke 's mouth descended then and took hers and Robyn felt the surge of hidden desire increasing , expanding , until she ached with the pleasure of it . |
| 24 | How deeply she 'd slept she did n't appreciate until she woke to the remote hoot of river traffic , and the sound of a pigeon cooing rhythmically just outside the window . |
| 25 | The sensation augmented in roaring octaves of bitter power until she hung at the edge of being where something — some eternal truth — hung clear and untouchable as the luscious stars . |
| 26 | She read on , about Jesus being born in Bethlehem and about King Herod and did not stop until she came to the line about Rachel weeping for her children . |
| 27 | As soon as she reached the open deer-park she ran , and she hardly paused until she came to the broad track that sloped down to the marsh , smiling and vivid green in the late afternoon sunshine . |
| 28 | She walked through the streets until she came to the litter of a part of town which teetered unbecomingly between abject decline and frenzied development . |
| 29 | She dived down the first alleyway , until she came to the window beside the white door with the red strip on the step . |
| 30 | Then she swam along the bank until she came to the old pontoon . |