Example sentences of "[verb] till [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | He had talked of going home for years ; yet excuses came up for delaying till next year and the year after . |
2 | Oh well they do n't know till half past nine . |
3 | I mean if you left your dinner another half hour say till five |
4 | but I know it cos the other week when I had to work till half past eight for Peter , he was having a dinner party and erm we went down there , I had to go shopping with him , he made me die cos he asked me if I 'd work a bit later and I said yeah I need the money , so I 'll work later so er he made me die because he said in this flare up , this argument when when I worked that day , I mean , I worked all day , I had nothing to eat and I could n't eat af , you know , cos of this trouble I could n't eat after |
5 | I 'll just , I 'll have to work till later man . |
6 | You wo n't even wait till eight o'clock ! |
7 | Yeah , the trouble with that , I 'll have to make you wait till four thirty , is that too long ? |
8 | I 'll wait till one or two people are here before I start . |
9 | Mr Ainslie dismissed Christie 's strength in Old Master Paintings as a London phenomenon and , when asked to comment on Christie 's Chairman Lord Carrington 's statement that Christie 's were now the largest auction house in Europe with a market share of 48% , said ‘ let him wait till mid 1992 . |
10 | So apart from that , do we need do we start do we wait till next week before we start selling raffle tickets ? |
11 | ‘ Ca n't it wait till next week ? |
12 | Er if you can wait till next week I 'll get it down . |
13 | I bet you ca n't wait till next week can you ? |
14 | Sorry do they get that , get that this week or they 'll wait till next week ? |
15 | So if I work any extra Saturdays I 've got ta wait till next Ap till April |
16 | And you ca n't move so you got to receive on gold in which case you 've got ta wait till next go before you can move . |
17 | Well I 'm not going out to buy any now I 'm gon na wait till next week so we 'll just have |
18 | Well I got ta wait till ten thirty . |
19 | After struggling through umpteen games of blackjack , I would taxi home and sleep till 8 a.m. when the boys awoke . |
20 | I went to Hoebury yesterday afternoon and they 're fully booked till one thirty in the afternoon . |
21 | Good fully booked till one thirty in the afternoon , so there 's , there 's no point , we 'll only be there for two hours . . |
22 | It wo n't dry till next week . |
23 | Yes yes , they 're not opening till next week are they ? |
24 | But , as Iago says , ‘ Knavery 's plain face is never seen till used ’ ( Othello , II.i.306 ) . |
25 | well yesterday the black bird was there and they ate till late , I think , I think they roost in that er holly bush |
26 | and so I just need my salad stuff till another time |
27 | Most of Khrushchev 's political career was covered in the first two volumes , but some good titbits have been saved till last . |
28 | But the best was saved till last , when Western province and Eastern province produced an excellent Benson & Hedges day/night final at the packed Wanderers , just a couple of days after the South Africans had returned from the World Cup . |
29 | The old Gynn Inn was the meeting-place of the Blackpool and Fleetwood systems , which were not connected till 1920 . |
30 | Colleagues just before we adjourn till nine thirty tomorrow morning , I would just like to make one one or two comments . |