Example sentences of "[pron] had [adv] finish " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , he turned up at my house sometime later and , sure enough , I had n't finished it — so we sat down and did it together , along with a few others while we were in the mood . ’ |
| 2 | However , I had n't finished with Barny yet . |
| 3 | ‘ I had n't finished . ’ |
| 4 | I was n't looking for a job because I had n't finished my training , but er a friend of mine has h her father is a G P in Loughton , and he erm was at a meeting with the senior partner of my practice , and they said do you know of anybody who 's interested in a partnership ? |
| 5 | And they suggested me , but I said I did n't think it was a good idea because I had n't finished |
| 6 | ‘ I had n't finished . ’ |
| 7 | about ten past one , well I had indigestion all night and I could feel it , and we 'd had our tea and I thought oh I do n't know , but I went to bed feeling alright and suddenly I woke up I thought oh my god I 'm gon na be sick , I come running down stairs , but you know I was , I was sick but I know I had n't finished and I 'd sat down and I was sick three times . |
| 8 | Er yeah I had n't finished off this that 's probably what the problem was . |
| 9 | Because I had insisted on taking the photographs myself I had not finished the book by its deadline . |
| 10 | I had just finished building a 16-track studio in my house and asked him to come and have a go on that equipment that even the very big studios did n't have . |
| 11 | I had just finished serving a glass to a gentleman when a voice behind me said : ‘ Ah , Stevens , you 're interested in fish , you say . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I had just finished my university course , and my first job was in the south of France , very close to that little village where your house is . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Well in September eighteen and a half years ago , ’ I thought for a moment , ‘ I had just finished my exams . |
| 14 | I had hardly finished rummaging through my snapshots of cars of the '50s ( pictured here a fortnight ago ) when I was transported back another 10 years to the 1940s . |
| 15 | I rushed off to have a shave and a wash , which I had hardly finished doing before we were ordered downstairs for breakfast in the darkness . |
| 16 | After handing over a new Glenmore design requested b a consumer , Eddie discussed other sales enquiries and the latest news from Harrogate , the main carpet exhibition of the year , which had just finished . |
| 17 | She began to pour the tea and when she had finally finished and sat down felt as if she had run the London Marathon . |
| 18 | When she had finally finished unpacking , she went and sat by the window again . |
| 19 | He 'd begun to scowl before she had even finished her sentence . |
| 20 | But she had n't finished examining what was in the attics . |
| 21 | Guiltily realizing that she had n't finished yet , Jezrael leaped just in time to rewind the cuber . |
| 22 | Fortunately she had n't finished unloading the car , so would only have a single hold-all to carry back downstairs . |
| 23 | Her mouth was dry and she wished she had n't finished her coffee . |
| 24 | She had not finished it when Uncle Philip crashed down his own spoon on an empty bowl . |
| 25 | She had not finished exhorting Dr Neil about this when McAllister , who could hear every word in the kitchen , returned with the tea-tray , staggering under its weight . |
| 26 | Finally , a protest from a woman who says she had just finished Helen Bullock 's ‘ oh-so-true ’ article when her husband came in and said : ’ ‘ There seems to be a bit of toast on the floor in the other room ’ . |
| 27 | But her own internal stresses — her anxiety over Between the Acts which she had just finished , and the fear that she had lost the power to write — closed in on her as that unmitigable depression , her companion of old , took final hold . |
| 28 | She had just finished her breakfast of dripping and bread and a piece of cold bacon when Ben came into the room . |
| 29 | She had just finished drinking her tea when the door opened and Roman came purposefully towards her . |
| 30 | She had left herself the early part of the evening free , and she had just finished dressing when Florian and Nicky dropped in to show her some new photos of the fair South African child who went by the name of Joni Jones , Florian having insisted on the first and the name with which he had replaced his original , paradoxically both more and less ordinary name , having been legalised in both countries whose passports he held , the United Kingdom and South Africa . |