Example sentences of "had [adv] finish " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they had all finished the coffee , Bob got up to pay the bill , leaving John to apologise for his misplaced piece of mockery . |
| 2 | When they had all finished Mike stood up and said thank you to everybody for coming . |
| 3 | There was no embassy in Naples but there was probably some consular representation although the War had only finished a couple of years before and not just Italy but the whole of Europe was hopelessly disorganised . |
| 4 | However , the majority of these had only finished the first level of secondary education — the fifth and sixth years following four years of primary school . |
| 5 | ‘ When you 've taken the tray , Cissie , I think you had better finish your flower-arranging , then get yourself ready for bed . ’ |
| 6 | He had bullet wounds said to have been inflicted by Mr Athulathmudali 's bodyguard , and had apparently finished himself off by taking cyanide , a method of suicide used by Tamil Tiger guerrillas . |
| 7 | Miss Easterbrook had apparently finished her revision . |
| 8 | He went on to the barn , where the farm workers had already finished eating and started dancing . |
| 9 | Sir Bryan had already finished . |
| 10 | ‘ This Natasha sounds quite a case , ’ Laura commented when Maggie had finally finished . |
| 11 | She began to pour the tea and when she had finally finished and sat down felt as if she had run the London Marathon . |
| 12 | When she had finally finished unpacking , she went and sat by the window again . |
| 13 | The patrol commander had just finished briefing the police on the situation when one of the patrol shouted , ‘ There 's someone in the bank . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Fifty miles north , Sarah Morgan had just finished serving a lunch that no one had done more than pick at . |
| 16 | Evidently a class had just finished and the place was boiling with ponies , small children , pink-faced with exertion in oversized helmets covered with bright silks , parents urging them to hurry up and get in cars , and teenage girls bulging out of light jodhpurs organizing the whole . |
| 17 | Cultural standards in the court have risen since George III remarked to Edward Gibbon , when the latter had just finished his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , ‘ Another big fat book ! |
| 18 | We had just finished the Card Trio in Act 3 with Leontyne and the two other gipsy girls in splendid voice , while Karajan 's accompaniment had been an education in itself . |
| 19 | Kylie had just finished primary school and along with Dannii , got the chance to audition for a part in The Sullivans , a long-running soap set in World War II . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Rex Reed , a writer for the New York Times saw Nicholson when he had just finished making On A Clear Day and thought that Jack was starting to make establishment noises , cleaning up his image , shaving his stubble and ditching the sandals and hippie clothes . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | Finally , Mrs Popple decided to throw a dinner-plate — they had just finished eating — and Albert Popple stormed out of the house . |
| 25 | At the time of his stroke , he had just finished a major biography , which had received critical acclaim , and he was researching for his next book . |
| 26 | The odour of fried bacon surrounded him , and a dirty plate and cutlery , pushed to the corner of the table , showed that Albert had just finished his evening meal . |
| 27 | The second mate had just finished preparing breakfast . |
| 28 | A group of people had just finished haytiming at a farm called Pikestone , in Holwick , and began to cross the swing bridge across the Tees . |
| 29 | After graduation I worked in London for a couple of years , but in 1985 a decision had to be made : my husband had just finished a sixmonth intensive training course at the Thatching Advisory Service in Berkshire . |
| 30 | Her husband had just finished the day 's work at his butcher 's shop and they were settling down to supper . |