Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] too late " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was going to tell her I had taken her keys and let myself back into the house , " he added , " but I arrived too late . |
| 2 | I turned too late to see who had spoken . |
| 3 | I was born too late and I discovered what I wanted to do too late and what I did I did too late and my death is about to come far too late . |
| 4 | Jason McCoy , all this month , has a show of Jackson Pollock drawings among which are two large gouaches which surfaced too late for inclusion in the artist 's catalogue raisonné in 1976 . |
| 5 | Asked what omissions she regretted , Mrs Saint German admitted two : the dearth of female authors represented and an offer which came too late for inclusion — a manuscript of ‘ Auld Lang Syne . ’ |
| 6 | Later on they would be joined or replaced by others whose services were equally important but who came too late to be captured on canvas . |
| 7 | She arrived too late for the actual ceremony , so another took place two days later , on Palm Sunday , when she placed a gold circlet on the head of King Robert I. |
| 8 | What do you mean too late ? |
| 9 | The movement made her feel a little light-headed , and she remembered too late that she had n't had much appetite for those hearty , delicious salads that Mrs Porter had made earlier . |
| 10 | ‘ You drink too late and rise too late . ’ |
| 11 | We realized too late anyway before we |
| 12 | Is it only two weeks since that bleak morning when I had nothing for a future and everything seemed too late , when I dragged myself about the house , alone and miserable and weighed down by self-pity ? |
| 13 | We arrived too late . |
| 14 | Manager Dave Bassett : ‘ We started too late . |
| 15 | Alas , they came too late to do the wounded agency , or the arts , much good . |
| 16 | But they arrived too late . |
| 17 | They arrived too late to save Praag but did destroy part of the Chaos army 's rearguard . |
| 18 | Anyway , the position now is that if you do not take silk at the right moment , it may mean that you have to continue working much too hard for your time of life ; on the other hand some barristers who take silk repent it , for they find too late that their services in the more expensive class of advocacy are not in demand . |
| 19 | I was courteous , but did n't encourage conversation too much because I wanted to start detecting before it got too late . |
| 20 | And er he he realized too late . |
| 21 | ‘ No , but it finishes too late . |
| 22 | The main criticism about information provided to employees is that it arrives too late . |
| 23 | A decision to contest a parliamentary seat ‘ if a favourable opportunity should occur ’ and to grant £250 as expenses was taken in October , but it came too late ( SCS Quarterly report 28 October 18 ) . |
| 24 | But it came too late for him to do anything about it , for when he straightened up and turned towards the bank the bullet hit him in the chest and his body seemed to disintegrate and fly in all directions , and he knew that death was on him and that it was something that divided you into a million parts and each fragment screamed as it flung itself into eternity . |
| 25 | ‘ And Titch , bless his heart , but it came too late for them . ’ |
| 26 | It could be argued that it came too late to correct the inequity completely , but at least it was a partial correction . |
| 27 | At length assistance arrived — it came too late ; he was indeed just alive , but died almost immediately . |
| 28 | He realises too late that not only can he not meet that deadline but he will not be able to finish those accounts before 31 December 1994 . |
| 29 | Let's go downstairs before it gets too late . ’ |
| 30 | You had better go home now before it gets too late . |