Starting and finishing

Exercise 51.2

Correct the collocation errors in these sentences.

1. It was such a near finish that no one was quite sure who had won.
2. I’ve just got to put the ending touches to my painting and then you can see it.
3. I expect the meeting will go to an end at about 5.30.
4. Everyone is here, so I think we should do a start now.
5. We all hope that the negotiations will succeed in taking the strike to an end.
6. Email marked the start of the end for the fax machine.
7. Our journey finished – as it had begun – in Cairo.
8. Have you heard yet what the finish result of the talks was?