Example sentences of "had finished with " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Rickey Henderson had finished with the Blue Jays on Sunday — in a 4-3 victory — to take the A's through to their second World Series in a row , that analysis looked a trifle dumb . |
| 2 | At the end of one debate there was nothing left of either Fascism or Communism when he had finished with them . |
| 3 | He taught her that the sacrament of the eucharist was so big that he did not feel that he had finished with it when he came home after the service at 8 a.m. on Sunday morning . |
| 4 | The Commanding Officer presented the prizes to the victorious 2 Company team , and we had finished with ISAAC 1989 . |
| 5 | All the victims — Mr Salmon , Mr Kinnock and Mr Major — were done to a T , with chopped peppers and barbecued sauce , by the time Walden had finished with them . |
| 6 | Rather apprehensively I let the other girls use it , on the strict understanding that when they had finished with it they unplugged it and stowed it away somewhere out of sight of our two gauleiters , hopefully after it had cooled down a bit . |
| 7 | By the time Vidal Sassoon had finished with her Paula 's long fair locks had been shorn to a sharp geometric shape and she scarcely recognised the reflection that looked back at her from the mirror . |
| 8 | At this point , he started to take off his plastic apron , indicating that he had finished with water for the day , leaving a bemused teacher reflecting on the relationship of density to ‘ strength ’ . |
| 9 | But Coleridge 's ideas were constantly changing ; by 1797 he had finished with Godwinism , and during the time that he was constantly with Wordsworth at Alfoxden , his conversation ( or ‘ monoversation ’ ) was full of references to Hartley , Berkeley and Spinoza . |
| 10 | During 1949 as the first stage of the tram scrapping programme was drawing near , V. J. Matterface , formerly of the Metropolitan Electric Tramways and now Tramways Engineer to Leeds City Transport , was able to persuade his new masters that the modern Feltham cars might be a good buy when London Transport had finished with them . |
| 11 | The cat had finished with its night hunt , and came padding silently back to its home territory . |
| 12 | The hospital had finished with Chrissie Stone in less than two hours . |
| 13 | I had finished with just being ‘ gay ’ . |
| 14 | After they had finished with her , the soldiers stood over her corpse and urinated into her mouth ; then they left her body for the dogs . |
| 15 | The policeman had finished with Mr Jemps . |
| 16 | It was dark by the time he had finished with the left side of the road . |
| 17 | From the silence that followed , Ellie gathered her father had finished with her , so she climbed down from her chair and hurried up to her father 's place . |
| 18 | When we had finished with the geese , we moved onshore to film marmots , and also another mountain rodent , the pika . |
| 19 | They did n't often get roast meat , only what Auntie Lou called ‘ Done Down ’ , which was the remains of the joint after Mr Evans had finished with it , minced up with bread and gravy browning . |
| 20 | How we would know when the Queen had finished with us . |
| 21 | She had finished with them all . |
| 22 | Maybe she had finished with sexual intercourse for ever , maybe it was this possibility that gave her this peculiar conviction of strength , this sense of invulnerability , of certainty , of power . |
| 23 | The pathologist had finished with Maurice 's body , which now lay in a chapel of rest in Maidenhead , awaiting a decision on when and where the funeral was to be held . |
| 24 | The winged creature had finished with the boy now and Nuadu thought it had taken its fill of the strange silvery liquid . |
| 25 | Floy thought they probably ought to be afraid themselves , because the Tree Spirits were so inHuman and so wild and so clearly filled with strange woodland magic that once they had finished with Balor they might very well turn to the two Renascians . |
| 26 | When they had finished with the shower , they recovered their belongings and headed for the resort . |
| 27 | I did n't use the toilets between lessons because I hate all that smoke so , by the time Biffo had finished with us , I dashed straight down to them . |
| 28 | I had consumed several whiskies — the kind the inexpert Yorkshiremen pour as though it was ginger ale — and I had finished with a glass of old Mrs Earnshaw 's rhubarb wine which had seared its way straight to my toenails . |
| 29 | When he had finished with Maurin his great dark eyes fixed on Joseph . |
| 30 | ‘ No , but he was more upset when Wickham had finished with him . |