Example sentences of "[det] until [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although through the efforts of Charlemagne , who was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope in the year 800 , the centre of European culture began to move northwards from the Mediterranean , the Viking raids of the ninth and tenth centuries delayed the full effects of this until about the year 1000 . |
| 2 | Any punter would be delighted to place a bet on the understanding that if his horse were to lose he would be able to transfer his stake to another horse in the next race — in STV terms , to another candidate in the next count — and perhaps even to another and yet another until at last he had backed a winner . |
| 3 | Cemaleddin Aksarayi 's connection with Amasya is more fully developed in Husameddin 's earlier where he is said to have been a fellow student of Hajji Shadgeldi 's ; to have become kadi in Amasya in 763/1361 when Hajji Shadgeldi took power ; to have been raised from the kadilik and the muderrislik of the Dar al- " ilm medrese to the kazaskerlik in/about 768/1366–7 ; and to have remained such until after Hajji Shadgeldi 's defeat and death in battle with Kadi Burhan al-Din in 783/1381 , whereupon Cemaleddin Aksarayi fled to Konya . |
| 4 | I do n't think they 'll be free of that until until the summer . |
| 5 | It is by no means so simple for the insurer who is ignorant of that until in some senses it is too late . |
| 6 | Constance was described as a ‘ miller and brush handle maker ’ , the latter until at least 1879 . |
| 7 | It was the same story every time : nothing at all until at last the significance of the date went home — ‘ But that was the day it was snowing , do n't you remember ? ’ |
| 8 | Certainly , but then De Gaulle was only the most recent of a line of French national leaders , going back at least as far as Joan of Arc , who have seen in the English , through most of the centuries , their main enemy , whereas of course we did n't come across Germany internationally at all until within the last ninety years . |
| 9 | Well you 'll have to go easy because you wo n't get any more until after the weekend ! |