Example sentences of "from [noun] late [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If somebody came back from lunch late without having informed him , he really berated the offender . |
| 2 | Threshing machinery was driven by horse-wheel when mechanical threshing was introduced from Scotland late in the eighteenth century with the development of the threshing drum , to relieve men from the real hard labour of threshing with flails , although in areas where the straw was required for thatching , hand-threshing continued long after the appearance of machinery . |
| 3 | Although she was absent from England late in the reign , Cnut was before that in the position of having two consorts . |
| 4 | Robert Thomson , Scottish secretary of the GMB , said the study was prompted by persistent complaints from shiftworkers about difficulties in getting to and from work late at night , early in the morning and at weekends . |
| 5 | I met a scum fan on the bus home from town late on Saturday night who was trying to tell me in a very loud voice that Strachan was now ‘ past it ’ and ‘ knackered ’ . |
| 6 | It does appear that from the late 1950s he took a back seat , leaving the direction of affairs to a collective leadership : Giap as military chief , Pham Van Dong as premier , Truong Chinh as formulator of ideology , Nguyen Duy Trinh as planner and programmer and Le Duan , brought back from the south , taking over as party chief from Ho late in 1957 . |
| 7 | Charlotte had telephoned Derek from Boston late on Friday night to ask if he could meet her off the plane at Heathrow on Saturday morning . |
| 8 | The lichen is gathered from rocks late in the summer , dried in the sun , then it is placed with the wool in alternating layers in a large pot . |