Sentence examples for there were late from inspiring English sources

She paid extra to make sure that if her friends there were late getting to the airport, the airline would look after him.

Some years, when we just couldn't let go, there were late turns to be threaded through the surface moraine on St. Mary's Glacier.

I obviously knew we had a lot of injuries prior to the game, and that there were late fitness tests scheduled on a couple of people, but I was confident the game would be on.

There were late dramas, with Etixx-QuickStep's Marcel Kittel hit by a mechanical problem about 30km from the finish of this 113km stage from Chantilly and Coquard pulled over with a puncture with the finish line almost in sight.

There were late withdrawals – France's Franck Ribéry the most prominent of them with less than one week to go before the World Cup – and late injury concerns (England's Alex oneade-Chamberlain ofe of them) but there will be 736 players there to compete for the most coveted trophy in the game.

Although North Carolina had long been seen as a lock for Obama, on account of its large African-American population, there were late polls that put him and Hillary Clinton within the margin of error; Indiana seemed out of reach, according to the polls, which in any case had a record of overestimating his strength.

Sometimes there were late-night confrontations.

There were late-night phone calls, strange packages in the mail and unsettling discussions lasting until dawn.

There were late-night comings and goings, with rumours that the rooms were used for disreputable practices.

There were late-night art parties that took over the Town Hall district, bringing out the freaks for far longer than Sydney's curfew would allow.

He said that there were "late-stage negotiations with a prominent 24-hour worldwide television network" to take the daily half-hour business report to nearly 200 countries, and also negotiations for a national daily radio program.