Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] too late " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Leckey 's first NI championship win of the season and came too late to threaten Emerson 's position . |
| 2 | He said fraud cases cost too much and happened too late . |
| 3 | So three of the punters , from Fawdon , Newcastle , hitched a lift to the Ripon race to put on £400 in bets — but they got stuck in a jam and arrived too late . |
| 4 | Like many distance runners in the eighties , Solly experimented with altitude training , and discovered too late that it takes more than thin air to do the trick . |
| 5 | We should have to fight all the way , and arrive too late to save anything . |
| 6 | ‘ You drink too late and rise too late . ’ |
| 7 | We went to the capital , Castries , for the afternoon 's festivities but arrived too late to see the round-the-town mile ( that 's about as far as it is ) . |
| 8 | Police were called but arrived too late to stop him mugging 60-year-old Rose McDevitt , who was knocked to the floor and robbed of her handbag as she waited for the lift . |