"It is finished!" someone said above him.
When I finished, someone wanted to know how I got started.
When he finished, someone grabbed a jacket and helped him put it on.
As the young cooks finished, someone brought out a tray of steaming tamales.
Raúl and Eduardo sang a mournful song, in which their voices were so tightly fitted to each other that they seemed braided, and when they finished someone said, "That's a good one".
The Irish author Carlo Gebler wrote that he was trying to read while a group of drunken students fought over a girl He broke off and asked, "Do you want me to finish?" Someone said, "Not really".
A split second after he finished, someone tossed in the air hundreds of political leaflets, and a young man was lifted onto the shoulders of the crowd and began denouncing "American tyranny".
The black eye might easily have finished someone else, but Mr. Macklowe came back, erecting a hotel on the same site just four years later, naming it after himself, and speaking to the news media about his troubles ("We had a poor public image") in an optimistic past tense.
Just when I thought the professor was about finished, someone would remember that they had not participated in the discussions that evening.
