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 . |