Sentence examples for finished would have from inspiring English sources

It said the reactor, once finished, would have been able to produce plutonium fuel for nuclear weapons.

Poirot needs things to be neat and tidy: the asymmetry of stopping filming before the books had been finished would have driven him to an early grave.

Taking advantage of the fire's destruction, Nero had the city reconstructed in the Greek style and began building a prodigious palace the Golden House which, had it been finished, would have covered a third of Rome.

The way the contest finished would have hurt the West Indies after Keiron Pollard (28) and team-mate Marlon Samuels (48) had revived the hopes of their side, who were 104-4, with some brutal batting.

Rodgers admitted he was relieved to secure a first home win in the Premier League but conceded his team's finishing would have to improve.

Plus 100 was worth 6.5 imps, but if declarer had made four spades, the finish would have been much closer.

Under other circumstances, the finish would have prompted raucous celebrations by Schumacher, Ferrari and its thousands of red-clad fans.

A 10th-place finish would have put Gordon in the field, dropped Logano to 11th and left Truex out of the field.

If not for Lagat, Tegenkamp's fourth-place finish would have been the best American finish in history in the 5,000.

Tahir accounted for two of them, turning his leg-break and googly from the River End, and a three-day finish would have been in prospect had Hampshire continued to hold their catches.

The warmth, clarity and simplicity of Mr. Corella's dancing always carry the day and they did here, though fewer of those faddish skater's-spin finishes would have been welcome.