Example sentences of "had [verb] too late " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There was nothing about the arrest of Theo Sykes but that might be because the news had broken too late . |
| 2 | Sadly for Britain , sadly for industrial peace on Merseyside , the change-of-heart had come too late . |
| 3 | At last in 1854 Forbes was duly appointed to the Edinburgh chair , but he died a few months later at the age of only thirty-nine ; there was a general feeling that he had worn himself out with drudgery , and that success had come too late . |
| 4 | It had come too late to be effective . |
| 5 | She flung it at him over her shoulder in the hallway before walking into the lounge , choking on the bitterness of knowing that his belief had come too late . |
| 6 | Self-knowledge had come too late . |
| 7 | This was the real thing — but her encounter with Fen had come too late . |
| 8 | Bingham 's men had reigned in the rain ; what a pity the deluge of good results had come too late to save the harvest . |
| 9 | He had arrived too late for things that were still in the air but vanished , the whole ferment and brightness and journeyings and youth of the 1960s , the blissful dawn of what he and his contemporaries saw as a pretty blank day . |