Example sentences of "[v-ing] too late " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prime minister 's critics say all this is happening too late ; that he should have regrouped last autumn , and that the Canadian Titanic may founder even while the ministers switch deckchairs . |
| 2 | When the Community belatedly recognised the de facto independence of the Yugoslav republics , it was acting too late for its recognition to have any effect beyond aggravating the fighting . |
| 3 | But the council have been accused of acting too late . |
| 4 | Patrese left his braking too late and shot straight into the escape road , narrowly missing his team-mate as Mansell took avoiding action . |
| 5 | This bull did irreparable harm to the Catholic cause in England ; coming too late to assist the Northern rising , which had already collapsed by the time it was issued , in the long term it equated Catholicism closely with treason and made the recusant community the object of deepening fear and suspicion . |
| 6 | Grabbing a flare gun she shoots the creature , learning too late that the animal was a tame vegetarian and Vicki 's pet . |
| 7 | He was posted to the eastern Mediterranean , arriving too late for the Gallipoli campaign , but serving on the Salonika front for most of the rest of the world war . |
| 8 | It is best not to leave eating too late . |
| 9 | There are two forms of late hitting , one where a player is deliberately trying to achieve it , and the other where the player does not realise he is hitting too late . |