Example sentences of "[be] too late [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 If it should be made in conjunction with the Corvedale line , assuming that the capital is raised for that line , it may be too late then to enquire how trains are to run from Lydham village to Bishop 's Castle , which now might be placed on the main line , or what expenditure will be necessary to make the roads to Lydham village as suitable for the inhabitants of Norbury , Wentnor , &c. , as those over which they at present travel to Lydham Heath .
2 It is too late tonight to begin exploring .
3 It is too late now to ask the right hon. Gentleman what he intends to do about that , as he will lose his job over it on 9 April , but can he tell me of any other Government who have allowed their textile industry to bleed to death in that fashion without helping it ?
4 It is too late now to submit a general appeal , but there are still circumstances when the regulations will permit a valid appeal .
5 It was too late now to take refuge in discretion .
6 It was too late now to educate him .
7 He told Mary that it would be all right and that anyway it was too late now to do anything else .
8 Whatever the answer , it was too late now to turn back the clock , too late to understand anything about Jacob .
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