Sentence examples for had finished him from inspiring English sources

"He had finished him off with a slider the previous time up, and he wanted to get out in front of him with a fast ball.

They had finished him off with an additional shot to the head". These are the accounts of relatives of victims and witnesses of extrajudicial executions carried out by the Syrian government's security forces in the city of Idlib on 16 April.

If the terrorists had finished him off, if when I looked out the window and saw someone at the phone booth, it had been him and then a big truck, a newspaper delivery truck, would have skipped the light, skipped the curb and flattened him – mid-sentence.

But in a flash, Mayweather had finished him with a right hand that left Ortiz down, out and not to be heard from since.

The headlines alone should have finished him.

I could have finished him earlier.

It could have finished him off as captain.

Where once Mr Brown seemed to have no internal rivals, the ministers who could have finished him off now have a stronger hand.

I might well have finished him and I'm not one to make excuses, but my hand is hurt and I don't tell any lies about that".

Of course, he had his stroke of luck when the French and the Dutch saved him from holding a referendum on the European constitution next year that would almost certainly have finished him.

Being exposed as the worst public dancer since David Brent turned John Sergeant into a light entertainment celebrity (The One Show, ITV documentaries), but would have finished him if he had still been a political editor.