Example sentences of "until he [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dick would n't rest until he had the exact pattern that he needed for the teeth . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , I would predict that we will see Ray 's name in the records books before long , though , perhaps not until he turns the grand old age of 60 in another three or four years and can make a new charge up the age-group ladder . |
| 3 | Where there had been one figure faintly outlined in the frame of the staging there were now two — one large , obviously Jotan , and one much smaller , a child Alexei thought until he saw the muscular build and shortened legs and realised that Jotan had caught a dwarf . |
| 4 | As the sun was rising the next morning , Gabriel waited outside his hut until he saw the young woman riding up the hill . |
| 5 | The place was pretty full , and he hesitated until he saw the empty bench at my table . |
| 6 | The customer can use his lien to enforce this ; he can refuse to hand over any goods which are returnable by him , until he receives the part-exchange goods or the part-exchange allowance . |
| 7 | ‘ We were talking about radiation transmitted from the cosmos and he mentioned about his space flight , ’ explained Eric , who thought nothing more of it until he received the signed sticker through the post . |
| 8 | This remained only a vague idea until he read the same Soviet paper from the 1970s as Chatterjee had seen and which dealt with the abundance of helium-3 and helium-4 in minerals . |
| 9 | In Toronto on that homeward trip I first met Ernest L. Bushnell who had come into radio as one-quarter of a male quartet and who rose in the ranks of Canadian radio until he became the top executive of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation some years later . |
| 10 | Uncomfortable , not liking the thought of leaving the hospital until he knew the worst … or best … |
| 11 | The ending left Harry 's heart soaring , until he recalled the earlier content . |
| 12 | In Final Analysis Richard Gere plays Isaac Barr , a San Francisco psychiatrist , who thought he was in full control of his life until he met the stunning Heather Evans played by Kim Basinger . |
| 13 | He crawled along the branch until he reached the nearest flower . |
| 14 | As more East Germans joined the cries for help , the diplomat burst through the front door and sprinted 300 yards around the embassy perimeter until he reached the grotesque tug-of-war . |
| 15 | Housman , would lecture on the lyrical poetry of Horace , expounding each text in uncompromising earnest until he reached the seventh ode of the fourth book , " Diffugere nives " . |
| 16 | He scrambled away on all fours , not stopping until he reached the dirty blank wall of the piggery twenty feet away . |
| 17 | He was not sure if he should tip-toe slowly and cautiously along until he reached the lower grounds of Old Ashfield , or make a sudden dash for it in the hope of outrunning any danger that might be waiting to pounce . |
| 18 | He stepped in amongst the figures , moving around the bed until he reached the kneeling wax effigy . |
| 19 | When he was satisfied no fresh threat was about to manifest itself from the darkness , he moved off back the way he had come , retracing his steps until he reached the shallow stream he had leapt a short time before . |
| 20 | His hand moved to her skirt and began to push the material upwards against her thigh until he reached the smooth flesh of her stomach . |
| 21 | Moments later the parade was dismissed and while others returned to their tents Charlie walked slowly back behind the lines until he reached the mass burial ground . |
| 22 | He said nothing to his wife , but at the next new moon got into his boat and let the wind carry him eastwards until he reached the windswept isle of Bujan , where the grass grows green and the grapes hang on the wild vines . |
| 23 | He was a Liberal Cabinet Minister until he left the Liberal party in 1886 ; he joined a Conservative Cabinet in 1895 . |
| 24 | Santos preaches the virtues of working legitimately for a crust and our hero merely sneers until he spies the seductive posterior of Amber Evans ( Stacey Dash ) , follows her into her swanky office and obtains a job in the mailroom despite having a criminal record to rival Al Capone . |
| 25 | To send a player streaking across the pitch ( do n't get excited , Lucy — I did n't mean literally ! ) , push the joystick in the direction you wish to go until he reaches the required speed . |
| 26 | A hundred yards further on , he turns down Coney Lane , passes Shopfix , Atkinson Insulation , Bitomark , then runs alongside the railings that fence the Pringle site until he reaches the main entrance . |
| 27 | A newly appointed bishop joins the end of the queue and works his way up by attrition until he reaches the favoured band . |
| 28 | The principal provisions pertaining to the structure of the learned profession lay down that a candidate for office , a mulazim ( mulazim ) shall first teach at a 20-akce medrese , that is , one at which the stipulated salary of the muderris is twenty akce daily , and shall then proceed to advance by 50-akce stages ( e.g. to a 25- , then to a 30-akce medrese , and so on ) until he reaches the 50-akce medreses of which there are three classes : and the Sahn . |
| 29 | Rory had been able to leave his car when he thought he was getting warm , and walk up people 's drives until he found the pea-green Polo Fox . |
| 30 | He walked along the Harrow Road until he found the small turning he wanted . |