Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] to finish " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well what time do you want me to finish ? |
| 2 | ‘ I expect them to finish in the top two . |
| 3 | It began at the 12th , with five successive birdies enabling her to finish two shots ahead of Miss Hall — and that though the Australian had a last round 69 . |
| 4 | As T falls , it will still be able to jump readily out of the catchment of undesirable local minima , but it will be progressively less likely to jump all the way out of the neighbourhood of the global minimum , which is where we want it to finish . |
| 5 | ‘ The specialist thought negatively , and he advised me to finish . |
| 6 | They do when they came in , and they want the stall made like this , and they would say , you know , well you know , I 'm paying you to finish that off , you know , how , your next , your next priority to do is this , and they eventually told me what they wanted , and you know , you get on with it . |
| 7 | I could not understand what he meant , and wanted to hear more about Céline , so I encouraged him to finish the story . |
| 8 | 10.28 : Persuaded P to get dressed and beat the clock — 3½ minutes , then back to coaxing him to finish some colouring . |
| 9 | However long it takes me to finish my job . ’ |
| 10 | Kindly allow me to finish what I have to say . |
| 11 | She was getting a little fed up with the habit he had of never allowing her to finish a sentence . |
| 12 | He stayed for as long as it took him to finish his beer . |
| 13 | Oh to polish it to finish it off . |
| 14 | Already he has smashed poor Ahn 's body to a pulp and is disgusted that his master will not allow him to finish . ’ |
| 15 | I 'm not sure you 're ready ; you might regret — ’ But she did n't allow him to finish , her mouth seeking his , her tongue shyly exploring its hot depths . |
| 16 | Gregson had hardly allowed him to finish speaking before telling him he 'd be there as soon as he could . |
| 17 | The late start for G must allow it to finish at 15 . |
| 18 | The late start for G must allow it to finish at 15 . |
| 19 | United go to Southampton tonight still desperate for their first victory in the new Premier League with Wark forecasting : ‘ I still fancy them to finish in the top three — even win it . |
| 20 | It crossed his mind that an hour earlier , receiving this news , he could have cut off Siward 's escape from the field and forced him to finish the battle . |
| 21 | For a moment her every inclination was to beg him to finish what he had begun . |
| 22 | ‘ Therese would want us to finish dinner first . ’ |
| 23 | So before we separated he gave me a working title for a song , and told me he wanted me to finish it by the next time he saw me . |
| 24 | We wanted him to finish his career at Wigan but once we could n't agree terms with him , we had to buy a replacement in Martin Crompton and we have to back him now . |
| 25 | She wanted him to be safe , not to be in trouble ; she wanted him to finish this book . |
| 26 | I wanted it to finish . ’ |