Example sentences of "[verb] finished the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( President Assad told him on that occasion that Saddam Hussein was like a chain-smoker : ‘ He can not help lighting another one before he has finished the first . |
| 2 | You come in when Alice has finished the first bit and then you come . |
| 3 | When I 'd finished the first prayer and turned to face him , I saw that he was kneeling . |
| 4 | When she 'd finished the second glass , he was still there , and still trying to catch her eye . |
| 5 | Joe did n't speak again until we 'd finished the second stage . |
| 6 | It was so bad , I 'd be looking forward to the next meal before I 'd finished the last one , ’ she says . |
| 7 | ‘ By half term I might have finished the last one . |
| 8 | So when I 've finished the first draft , I go back to the beginning to check that it all hangs together . |
| 9 | ‘ Now we 've finished the last series of Pemberley , I hope I can get down to some serious work on it . ’ |
| 10 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 11 | we 've finished the last , we 've finished the last one . |
| 12 | we 've finished the last , we 've finished the last one . |
| 13 | However , it quickly became clear that the opera would not be ready in time for September , even though Mozart had finished the first act by 22 August . |
| 14 | She worked steadily on , until she had finished the first coat . |
| 15 | Yet when he had finished the first thing she said was , ‘ But you have n't really talked of the most important thing — the other eagles who were with you . |
| 16 | When he had finished the first beer , Maxim asked : ‘ Did you know the Schickerts well ? ’ |
| 17 | But after she had finished the first part of her lecture ; after slightly nodding her head to the generous applause ; after the lights had gone up again ; after Ashenden had said ( as every chairman since Creation had said ) how much everyone had enjoyed the talk and how grateful everyone was that not only had the distinguished speaker fascinated each and every one of them but also had agreed to answer any questions which he was absolutely sure everyone in the room was aching to put to such a distinguished expert in the field … it was only then that Dr Moule was able to survey the two intruders . |
| 18 | When he had finished the second slice , he looked at the Trunchbull , hesitating . |
| 19 | When he had finished the third page she put her head to one side and said in her cross-but-trying-to-be-helpful voice , ‘ I like the bit about Donald . ’ |