And, with half Surrey's second-innings wickets spent and with the home side still 11 in deficit, the win looked on, until the impressive Ben Foakes found partners in bowlers-who-bat, Tom Curran and Gareth Batty and time ran out.
I didn't know it was a Delacroix until I looked on the back.
Adaptation's interpretation of Susan Orlean's Orchid Thief is my nomination for the oddest film version; and, until I looked on YouTube, it was a source of enduring regret that I'd never seen the musical version of Moby Dick, a maritime romp set in a swimming pool at a girls' boarding school.
Gazing at them, I felt like I was watching history unfold, and many looked on with their mouths agape in horror, until one of the many knowledgeable guides explained that we weren't quite watching climate change in action.
Shirley's daughter looked for work for years after finishing university while Shirley looked on helplessly until one day her daughter suggested they both kill themselves.
While Ghanaians looked on helplessly (until the recent elections) as their living standards plummeted, European governments kept heaping praise on Ghana, often describing it as a role model for the rest of Africa.
The crowd looks on anxiously until, just downriver, a tousled head emerges and drifts towards a shelf of rock.
At the Bowery, I was writing down what Stoppard said, and he waited to go on until I looked up from the page.
I wasn't able to put my finger on why until I looked at my finger and saw that I'd done this to my beautifully manicured gel nails: Since this pic, I've ripped the overlay completely off with my teeth and bitten them to the quick.
I looked up at her, pivoting on my toes until my knees were parallel with her legs.
But maybe they'd just look on until our decaying arms pop off, then trot leash-free over to Dog Bar in Midtown to hang.
