Just as I had finished my meal and was thinking of turning in, Marie herself appeared within the circle of the camp-fire's light.
When I had finished a perfect storm of execration broke from the Boers.
Retief when I had finished, "this is a strange story, the strangest that ever I heard.
I had finished, "you are clever as a baboon, Macumazahn.
When I had finished really I thought that Umbezi was about to faint.
When he had finished he arose, and passed into the family saloon; but the Empress Josephine remained, and made a sign to the guests to do the same.
When I had finished: "It was nice of Jill to give you those flowers," she said.
Before I had finished my second cigarette, Berry, Daphne, and Jill came round the bank of rhododendrons.
When I had finished, she threw back her head and laughed.
When I had finished: "But what'll the inn people think?
When I had finished, she deliberately wrung the last atom of water out of the derelict stocking, smoothed it out carefully by the side of the chemise in the sun, laid herself down on the sand, and burst into tears.
Ayesha listened intently, and, when he had finished, spoke to me.
When I had finished I went and saw poor Leo, who was quite off his head, and did not even know me.
When he had finished, however, she addressed Ustane.
Indeed, before we had finished we literally ate up everything that was set before us.
When he had finished, he went up to a tree and stayed his hunger with its fruits; after which he found a spring of water and drank thereof and praised Allah, to whom be honour and glory!
But, when I had finished, he smiled and said, 'Out on thee, O fool!
When I had finished speaking, in the silence that followed I heard Irene utter something that was half a sob and half a gasp of wonderment.
When he had finished, Shearer evinced no astonishment nor approval.
When he had finished, he looked again at Thorpe, and this time there were tears in his eyes.
She listened, walking along with her eyes fixed on the ground; and when he had finished, gave a sigh of delight and relief--all the comment she uttered.
David, however, listened with a very different expression of countenance from what Hugh had anticipated; and, when he had finished, took up the conversation in a kind of apologetic tone.
The sun had got more powerful by the time we had finished breakfast, and the wind had dropped, and it was as lovely a morning as one could desire.
When I had finished, George asked if the soap was in.
Life is brief, and you might pass away before I had finished.
When he had finished, he arose with pale and distorted features.
When he had finished speaking he spat upon the ground.
When he had finished I asked him whether he would take coffee.
He would have lifted her down from the bed when he had finished, but she pushed him from her, laughing very softly.
When he had finished eating he did not stay long; he had to go and see some girls home from a prayer-meeting; and he asked how it was he never saw me walking out with any on Sunday afternoons.
When he had finished he wiped the whip again, and put it back in his pocket.
By the time we had finished, the sun was already low behind the trees and the clouds beginning to flush a faint pink.
Minora was astonished and disconcerted by finding herself left behind, and arriving at the place where tea meets us half an hour after we had finished.
He paused, more at the wonder of watching her face than because he had finished.
This time his inflection showed that he had finished.
For a space after he had finished, the silence remained unbroken, then gave way only to an outburst of applause.
As he told the dream, his father suddenly grew attentive, and before he had finished, looked almost scared; but he said nothing.
But before he had finished it he shut the lid and sat upon it.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "had finished" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
