Example sentences of "finish [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The theme and each variation are extremely brief , only eleven bars , and each finishes so quickly and changes mood so rapidly that at a first hearing one can not possibly grasp the course of events . |
| 2 | Half nine it finishes so we 're supposed to be back by tennish I should think by the time we 're finished . |
| 3 | The race finishes just past Westminster Bridge . |
| 4 | It finishes just short of the summit with a superb rock pitch that looks hard from below but which turns out to be slabs at a comfortable angle , full of deep cracks . |
| 5 | We 've actually got a situation outside where I live where a thirty mile an hour speed limit is erm finishes just in front of some of the houses and of course we 've got no access to their the gardens so we just park on the road . |
| 6 | It all starts at 9.30am and finishes just before the swimming events . |
| 7 | Meets boyfriend who also finishes early |
| 8 | Rainey rarely finishes as low as third ( even if he was only a fraction of a second down on Schwantz at Suzuka ) , but at Eastern Creek he proved he 's dynamic as ever . |
| 9 | It finishes tomorrow and it was for fifteen days . |
| 10 | The Candy Castle Cup offshore meeting at Carrick Sailing Club finishes tomorrow and many of the boats taking part in the event will be heading for Scotland for next weekend 's popular Scottish offshore series . |
| 11 | My lord , the story of your poor mother 's life finishes here . |
| 12 | For most 18–30 's the night finishes quite late and by the end of two weeks you 'll probably find you 'll need a holiday . |
| 13 | The project finishes there , with the children expressing considerable remorse for getting the old man out of his home . |
| 14 | Even though it finishes almost exactly where 001 did , 010 contains good stuff . |
| 15 | He knows it chiefly as a source of seasonal traffic jams about which Marjorie sometimes complains ( the University day begins too late and finishes too early to inconvenience Vic himself ) and of distractingly pretty girls about whose safety he worries , seeing them walking to and fro between their halls of residence and the Students ' Union in the evenings . |
| 16 | ‘ No , but it finishes too late . |
| 17 | I I do n't think they 'd sort of hold up their arms and say well we 'll finish altogether if that 's your attitude . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've a feeling it would finish rather late … ’ she began uncertainly . |
| 19 | If it were all as simple as this , and if all fossil bones passed through these stages without modification , this book could finish right here , but unfortunately it is not so . |
| 20 | I do n't , we can finish right now . |
| 21 | The Pole was first in the compulsory figures but could finish only third in the original programme , behind both Eldredge , and Vladimir Petrenko of the Soviet Union , in a nine-strong field . |
| 22 | By the time of his third Melbourne Cup in November he had already won eight races as a five-year-old and had become a national idol , but the handicapper had shovelled ten stone ten pounds on his back for the Cup , so it was no disgrace when he could finish only eighth . |
| 23 | Docklands Express was travelling well three fences from the finish , but tired soon after , while Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Cool Ground could finish only 10th . |
| 24 | At Market Rasen , Celtic Chief , the 1989 Champion Hurdle winner , could finish only third to Phils Pride on his first outing for Champion trainer Martin Pipe in the Newark Storage Novices ' Chase . |
| 25 | Owner-trainer John Hill and three racecourse vets checked the filly over and decided she was fit to run , but Atlantic Way could finish only third . |
| 26 | ARAZI 'S reputation nose-dived again yesterday when the one-time wonder horse could finish only third at Longchamp . |
| 27 | But three-times world champion Ayrton Senna could finish only eighth fastest in his McLaren . |
| 28 | Alternatively , lessons could finish much later . |
| 29 | Noreen would come on first as before with her song — and then be joined by ‘ Mary ’ who would take the melody while Noreen harmonised and then Maria would conclude with a solo — usually ‘ The Last Rose of Summer ’ — and they would finish together with ‘ Let Him Go Let Him Tarry ’ , another of the O'Neil family songs which both knew backwards . |
| 30 | James was in every respect the kind of driver Alexander would get along with and that their enterprise did not finish so very far from winning , and failed to win not a few times only through misfortune — or the injustice of fate , speaks creditably of an underlying seriousness that they rarely allowed to show . |