Example sentences of "to put the finishing [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the officials , commentators and chess groupies then lingered over an enjoyable buffet , the players and their seconds rushed off to put the finishing touches to six months of preparations . |
| 2 | OFFICIALS from the Group-of-Seven largest seven market economies will gather in Frankfurt today to put the finishing touches to a plan designed to lead to a $35billion increase in the resources of the International Monetary Fund . |
| 3 | to put the finishing touches for the great day . |
| 4 | Managing director Bill Fotherby will use this week 's European Cup trip to Stuttgart to put the finishing touches to negotiations which could smash all records . |
| 5 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA and IBM Corp came together in Paris last week to put the finishing touches to their collaborations , announcing successful conclusion of specific contracts that comprise the far-reaching open-systems technology and associated manufacturing alliance announced on January 28 . |
| 6 | Many Suffolk horsemen , when occasionally they took their horses to Ipswich market , rose very early in the morning — three o'clock , or even earlier — to put the finishing touches to harness they had perhaps oiled the night before , and to paint the horses ' hoofs with harness oil to make them look smart . |
| 7 | If Ferguson is really searching for someone to put the finishing touch to his team 's chances and not his own , he would be better offering the job to one of these often maligned stabbers-in of trifles . |
| 8 | She described again and again how they went to India in the early 1920s and returned in the Depression , his work as an electrician in the mines , poverty , living in digs with the old soldier who polished the shoes and got my brother to put the finishing kaybosh on them . |