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finished
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Simple sentences
We've finished cleaning our classroom.
I've just finished packing.
I will have finished the work by seven this evening.
We've just finished breakfast.
I had finished my homework when you called me.
When he finished speaking, there was a silence.
For the first time in her life, Yuka has finished reading an English book.
I thought doing this would be easy, but we've been working all day and we're still not finished.
Tom has finished painting the picture of Mary that he's been working on for a couple of months.
I have already finished reading this book.
Have you finished eating?
Yesterday, we finished constructing the new stage.
This isn't finished.
I'm almost finished.
You told her that you had finished the work three days before.
Have you finished the work yet?
Have you finished it?
Have you finished reading the novel?
Had it not been for your cooperation, I could not have finished the work in time.
A student raised his hand when the teacher finished the reading.
The meeting finished thirty minutes ago.
The meeting finished at nine.
I've finished watering the flowers.
I needn't have watered the flowers. Just after I finished, it started raining.
You have to get this work finished by noon.
Have you finished doing your homework yet?
Have you finished reading that book yet?
I will have finished the work before you return.
The council began at 9:00 and should be finished by 10:45.
We import raw materials and export the finished products.
Movie subtitles
The Shinjuku ghetto is finished.
You should have finished them off!
By the time they've finished, it'II be 400 feet in length.
It's not finished yet.
My last deployment finished months ago.
We've been here all night, and I haven't even finished sorting the screws.
Topped with, uh, grilled octopus and slow-roasted cherry tomatoes, perfectly finished with micro bronzed fennel.
So, after the role-playing had finished around midnight, you went to bed?
So I just need to make sure that Dr Plummer didn't see her in the manor after the game had finished.
The parade started at 10am and finished at 12pm.
Usually we could do this at your house, but obviously, it's off limits until an examination is finished.
And what's worse is I dreamed I'd finished it.
You're finished.
I may be finished with the job.
Henk hacl finished his studies, except for the final exam, which he could not do, because the University was closed.
In March 1952, just before the new receiver was finished, I went to Kootwijk for a month and a half to calibrate our radio telescope.
Once this was finished, in June 1952, the first large survey along the Milky Way equator started.
But do not think we have finished.
One has never finished.
You'd come over to my place on Halstead, and we ordered, uh. Takeout and rented a movie that we never finished because we ended up.
In the evening of March the 30th the last drawing is finished but it is stolen during the night.
They finished Louis XIV's Court and started Babylon Gardens.
You're finished for tonight!
Now, father, the kulaks are finished.
Have you finished those connections?
Look, you and I are finished!
They placed a special magnetic stripe on top. If this isn't dealt with properly, whether it's the Royal Family or South Korea, it'll both be finished.
He even gave me some homework. He said he'll come back, after I've finished my homework.
After I finished helping to give out breakfast in the morning, I'm currently a volunteer at a bank. I'm doing very well now, so don't worry.
You'd come over to my place on Halstead and we ordered takeout, and rented a movie that we never finished because we ended up.
The opera must have finished by now!
My business in Vienna is finished.
I'm almost finished.
You're sure she's not finished?
If Dr. Laughton finished Tima, she now could have taken the throne.
I've finished.
When you've quite finished, let me know.
News and current affairs
BEIJING: China has now finished celebrating the 50th anniversary of Mao's revolution, but the hangover cure that so many people in the West have been urging upon the country -- a healthy dose of devaluation -- is unlikely to be swallowed.
After I finished high school last year, I decided to become a doctor.
The most interesting explanation I heard was that economics has become more interesting, because it no longer seems to be a finished and closed discipline.
The age of colonialism is finished, and we are now moving beyond the age of US global dominance.
Without a road, you cannot transport resources and finished goods.
If no evidence of such weapons is produced, then both Bush and Blair deserve to be finished politically, no matter what else happens in Iraq.
The job is far from finished.
The euro would collapse, and the ECB finished as a creditable central bank.
A month later, a similarly named Islamic party in Morocco, Parti de la Justice et du Development (PJD), finished third in legislative elections.
This has probably cost the world a decade of wasted time in developing a policy to deal with the problem, particularly given that intentional inaction is likely to continue until Bush's term is finished.
BERLIN - The best inventions are never finished.
Nobody remembers: its job supposedly finished, the ministry went out of existence.
The liberal-leaning Central National Trend (CNT) finished third, with 4,962 votes.
Overall, liberal-leaning parties finished first in 11 of Libya's 13 electoral districts, with the NFC winning ten and the CNT taking one.
I have just finished Alexievich's latest dreadful masterpiece, Secondhand Time, a brutal account of the chaotic Russian capitalism of the 1990s.
Intra-regional trade flows have surged during the last decade, but they have been concentrated in parts and components that go into finished products assembled in China for export to developed countries.
Xi is certainly not finished yet, having outlined a set of legal reforms at last month's Fourth Plenum of the Communist Party aimed at creating a more level playing field for the public and private sectors.
LONDON - Ali Abdullah Saleh is finished as Yemen's president.
Lenders find that the collateral (half-finished or empty houses) is worth almost nothing, resulting in huge losses in the banking system (as the US found out in 2008).
In France, the National Front, which finished second in the 2002 presidential election, has been revitalized under Marine Le Pen.
After they finished trading stories of endless red tape and arbitrary government decisions, I asked why they kept investing in Argentina.
South Korea and China have already finished a feasibility study for a bilateral FTA, and probably will enter into formal negotiations soon.
NEW HAVEN: Asia's leaders have finished their meeting in Kuala Lumpur with all sorts of promises.
But I have not quite finished with the OECD.
Tudor subsequently finished second in the presidential election.