Sentence examples for being very late for from inspiring English sources

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Neil Middleton, chairman of the Association of Public Transport Users, said: "Just one cancellation will lead to a one-hour gap in the service, with commuters being very late for work and air travellers missing flights.

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Once, he was very late for a departmental dinner.

"When we got back to New Jersey, it wasn't until 10, which is very late for 4-year-olds, and we had an early job this morning".

Mr. Ives has turned the Austrian characters into a modern-day New York theater director, Thomas David Christopher Wellss), and a seemingly scattered actress, Vanda (Ms. Rooth), who is very late for her audition.

Saturday's Politico Playbook featured comments from Collins on the Newtown visitors, who lamented that the families were "VERY late for their meeting with me".

The candidate replied that it was very late for him to change his remarks; Dewey assured him he need not do so, but simply add at the end his resignation from the ticket and his insistence that Eisenhower accept it.

But, the other one, I knew before he arrived here, the time was very late for him.

Unless you are very late for an event; if you need to use your cellphone, then stand to the side of the pavement and don't continue walking.

Understand that a snooze button should be used only once a morning, because if you use it more, you will be very late for whatever you need to get to in the morning.

Ask a teacher or preferably other students for notes, even if it is very late, for important exams; it is perfectly normal for people to still be going over, checking and in some cases relearning the material, even on the day of the exam, so chances are they won't figure out how little you actually know.

"All the kids had gone," he recalled, "and the sergeant said, 'How would you like a little drink?' I said, 'I'd better not, I'm still in the Bozo suit.' He said, 'They're gone.' " Whiskey had been poured and consumed by the time a child appeared with a mother who was very apologetic for being very late.

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