Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] late " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then appropriate too short , too long , accept the so appropriate sociability , how long have you been there just moved in , do you know the neighbours that bit of information you 've gathered especially late at night now on someone 's door that 's already set back whatever . |
| 2 | He apologises for phoning so late . |
| 3 | It had taken her months to get used to eating so late and so many times a day . |
| 4 | Of course , even within the stated parameters , comprehensiveness is an impossible goal , because some publications escape the net , or are listed so late that they have gone out of print or are out-of-date by the time they appear . |
| 5 | They entered so late that Pitt had had plenty of time to prepare to attack them , and his expeditions captured Havana and Manila ; as a result Britain took the Spanish colony of Florida , an area with a loosely defined western frontier lying somewhere a little east of New Orleans . |
| 6 | It belongs to a Hindu family that entered comparatively late into a treaty relationship with the Portuguese , and had subsequently been ennobled by them . |
| 7 | Only if it is contained as LATEST will it be approved again and its issue number increased . |
| 8 | Only if it is contained as Latest will it be approved again and its issue number increased . |
| 9 | In fact the local feudal lords were powerful and ambitious , and Todi seems to have come relatively late to communal independence of the count and the bishop . |
| 10 | For most 18–30 's the night finishes quite late and by the end of two weeks you 'll probably find you 'll need a holiday . |
| 11 | The presence of the P3A exon only in primates and man , and its absence in other species suggests that insertion of the P3A exon in the AchR gene occurred relatively late in the evolutionary line . |
| 12 | As will be shown below , there is some reason , though not perhaps positive evidence , for supposing that his appointment to the Muftilik occurred relatively late in his life ; and there seems also to be good reason to suppose that his appointment to the muderrislik of the Manastir medrese occurred before his appointment to the kadilik since it was usual even in the early days of the Ottoman state for a man to have done some teaching before being appointed to as important a kadilik as that of the capital city . |
| 13 | Again , we are reminded too late that the risks associated with high short-term rewards are often unacceptable for a public company . |
| 14 | Sadly for Britain , sadly for industrial peace on Merseyside , the change-of-heart had come too late . |
| 15 | But these have often come too late . |
| 16 | ‘ I cou 'd have serv 'd you , but you 're come too late |
| 17 | Changes in oral hygiene and dental practice have come too late for the men and women in today 's Homes . |
| 18 | It may have come too late to save your husband , but I beg of you , Karen , spare the life of our unborn baby ! ’ |
| 19 | The tributes showered upon him since his death have come too late . |
| 20 | But recognition has probably come too late to influence Mr Savimbi . |
| 21 | Despite OSF 's attempt to harmonise some of the products based upon its technology , it has come too late to net some of the larger fish . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ I fear we 've come too late to save Doctor Jekyll , and too late to punish his murderer too . |
| 24 | It had come too late to be effective . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Self-knowledge had come too late . |
| 27 | This was the real thing — but her encounter with Fen had come too late . |
| 28 | Ireland 's defeat of England may have come too late to influence the marginal selections but it certainly highlighted the shortcomings of some of the English players who were subsequently selected . |
| 29 | Although it has come too late to preserve the Snake River salmon in the wild , the ruling could save other salmon species in the same river system , and have far-reaching consequences for the agricultural and industrial economy of the Pacific Northwest . |
| 30 | The law has come too late for Anna McGurk , all her parents can now hope is that by the passing of this bill , some good will finally have come from her death . |