to be late

lateness, late coming

a custom, usual practice, habit / a precedent / the aforementioned / a case, an instance, an illustration, an example

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

an instance, an example, a precedent

(attributive) the usual, the aforementioned, you-know-who

as expected; as always

example