Example sentences of "[vb infin] until [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I go for a night session I make sure to arrive well before darkness , usually around 7.30 p.m. or 8 p.m. in summer , when dusk does not fall until 10 p.m. or so . |
| 2 | His first surviving letter , written to his mother in February 1785 , seems to suggest that he had visited Ottery in the recent past ; but better evidence that he returned there does not survive until 1789 , seven years after his arrival in London . |
| 3 | The state monopoly of television channels would survive until 1982 : but in 1964 a second channel was created ; 70 per cent of the population could receive it by 1966 ; its first news broadcasts were transmitted in 1967 . |
| 4 | I did n't know until eleven o'clock that night he rang up and said I 'm not coming home . |
| 5 | In fact , I did n't know until recent years that it was a person at Philips Records who in fact mentioned DeFries to David , and when he did meet DeFries , Angela was very much in favour of David moving from me to him . |
| 6 | In Berlin a splinter group formed within the Society , but it did not secede until 1898 . |
| 7 | The founding of the Manchester and Salford Adult Deaf and Dumb Benevolent Association ( now the Manchester Centre for the Deaf ) in 1846 is a little obscure as its first reports do not commence until 1873 . |
| 8 | Erm Nick has obviously talked about the er , the phasing of the estate erm , just to point out that the reason for it , perhaps seeming a bit of long drawn out er affair , it 's , it 's a , a minimum time as far as erm , all the people who have been negotiating feel it 's achievable in if we are to make sure that the estate does n't remain a building site as as a as a total entity fo , at any time , so this site here will not commence until this site is completed so that there will be some er , rest bite for the bungalow residents and of course , somewhere to park their cars in the in the interim . |
| 9 | exactly , but why wait until nineteen eighty eight to discover that , how long had you been doing these estimates for ? , how many years have you been doing ? |
| 10 | I was wondering actually I think I might wait until that dress comes through , I 'll try |
| 11 | Well you wo n't wait until that long you 'll put it down in May |
| 12 | I could hardly wait until late evening when the beaches would be less crowded . |
| 13 | Luther would wait until dark , when the rest of the family had vacated the kitchen , then would take everything from the larder , spreading it on the table , spilling it on the floor , and generally inflicting mayhem on a hitherto spotless environment . |
| 14 | He should not wait until 1993 , which is the present proposal . |
| 15 | ‘ I want to be measured for some more boots , ’ Edward said , ‘ but you look a little shaken so I 'm sure it can wait until another day . ’ |
| 16 | But he did not believe that Britain should wait until next summer 's removal of capital and exchange controls throughout the Community before entering the exchange rate mechanism . |
| 17 | They ca n't wait until next year 's race to see if they can do even better . |
| 18 | Even so , this is a shortened Session , and as we must wait until next year for the start of a fourth Conservative term in office , we must now get on with the measures contained in the Gracious Speech . |
| 19 | A demonstration was held outside the hospital after it was first suggested the units might close , but now the protestors must wait until next year to see what happens . |
| 20 | And United must now wait until next Tuesday , when they travel to Radcliffe Borough , to try and get the result out of their system . |
| 21 | Sandy , at three in the morning , watching Boy : ‘ If I was built like that I would n't wait until three o'clock to take my shirt off . ’ |
| 22 | According to the Council Regulations agreed by transport ministers on 22 June 1992 , total free trade in air services between and within countries must wait until 1997 ; only then will it be possible for airlines to operate freely within particular countries , the so-called ‘ cabotage ’ rights . |
| 23 | Bede 's reckoning from 642 for the accession of Oswiu would suggest to him the year 664 , but if Oswiu did not succeed until 643 the reference to his twenty-second year would point to 665 as the year of the council . |
| 24 | I think what I w ill do is wait and watch until late afternoon . |
| 25 | Du n no , had to me Theresa were n't ready , did n't expect until eight o'clock , I thought yeah I 've got ten minutes , sitting in my bedroom drinking a cup of tea and I heard this bing |
| 26 | The reason no one had developed a product before was Windows 3 toolkits did not appear until six months ago , Dawe claims . |
| 27 | In the theoretical year of life , shelled fossils do not appear until early November . |
| 28 | Because of the prosecution of his early pamphlets the complete edition of the ‘ Books of Nameless Love ’ could only be sold underground and did not appear until 1913 . |
| 29 | This would explain why single-celled organisms appeared 3500 years ago , but complex creatures such as mammals and reptiles did not appear until 500 million years ago . |
| 30 | Royal Brass commemorative horse-brasses did not appear until Victorian times and , in any case , the shape can not be described as traditional . |