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By the time they came, we ………………our dinner. ( had finished / finished / would finish / were finishing )
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By the time they came, we ………………our dinner.

( had finished / finished / would finish / were finishing )

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We “had finished” our dinner
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Answer: By the time they came, we had finished our dinner.

Came is past tense, so I would assume it would be had finished

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