Example sentences of "it 's [adv] late [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You realise it 's too late to return to Cairo tonight . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It 's too late to do it today . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's too late to do much about it except to make sure you always lock up your personal computer . ’ |
| 4 | By the time I find a room it 's too late to do anything except go out on to the balcony and gaze down at the still-warm street , the signs . |
| 5 | And if you 're not careful you sit there blankly in the one armchair , with the curtains drawn and your bag on the stand , until it 's too late to do anything . |
| 6 | Now it 's too late to do them this morning cos the van 's already gone . |
| 7 | That 's what she 's like at school , misbehaving so languidly and aristocratically that by the time anyone notices , it 's too late to do anything about it . |
| 8 | It 's too late to do that now . |
| 9 | You start to think , well of course , had I done so-and-so yesterday , had I done , and I 've missed on so- and-so , so you sort of , review the day for a couple of hours , and then it gets to about four o'clock and now you 're thinking , Oh my God , I 'm at the accountants the next day , I 'll be so tired , I 'll be you know , and it 's too late to do anything about it now , so now you 're having a bad day the next day as well because you 've got yourself all stewed up about that . |
| 10 | Before you think it 's too late to do those sit-ups , though , think again . |
| 11 | See by the time I get to that stage it 's too late to do any thing to send off |
| 12 | You wan na get it sorted out and tidied up tomorrow , it 's too late to do it now |
| 13 | No Carly , it 's too late to do it now . |
| 14 | It 's too late to remind him of what is long gone . ’ |
| 15 | You have now set sail for a new destination and it 's too late to turn back . |
| 16 | She 's fond of him still , in her way , but they quarrelled all those years ago and it 's too late to mend it . |
| 17 | Well , my first job came during four weeks of my last term at RADA when I had applied and been chosen for a television play called It 's Too Late to Talk to Billy which was set in Belfast — which is where I came from originally . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's too late to back out now . |
| 19 | Part of that would be that they identify that that 's , I 'm going there two years hence that 's the pathway and it 's too late to wait until next January a year from January and suddenly realise they need six G C S E's , a , b , c when they 've lost half their grades on the course work to date . |
| 20 | It 's too late to argue now that the forms should have been available earlier . |
| 21 | I suppose it 's too late to put an antebellum mansion on the label ? ’ |
| 22 | And it 's too late to put together the story I really wanted to do this week . |
| 23 | Put it on there , oh it 's too late to put it on there , oh that 's alright do it like that |
| 24 | It 's it 's too late to ask I know . |
| 25 | It 's too late to get anything else . ’ |
| 26 | I 'm a single parent , and I blame myself for the way he is — but I feel it 's too late to get through to him now as talking or reasoning does n't work . |
| 27 | ‘ The time factor ; it 's too late to get married today , but the honeymoon does n't have to wait , does it ? ’ she said , a faint colour stealing into her face as he swung her into his arms . |
| 28 | ‘ I know what you 're thinking , ’ Minton teased Tindle when he saw the painting in the studio at Hamilton Terrace , ‘ but it 's too late to change the floorboards now . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ It 's too late to change anything , ’ Celia said firmly . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's too late to mind , ’ he said . |