Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [subord] we have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they do , it may not be long before we have to pay the price . |
| 2 | ‘ But now I am happy to be here because we have made new friends and to get into the team is an extra bonus . ’ |
| 3 | But in that case the expression " I was alone " would have been banal : it is only after we have felt the isolation of the speaker in all its particularity , and have seen the last vestige of human life disappear over the horizon , that we can understand the force of the simple statement . |
| 4 | The fragmented narrative cultivated by Vargas Llosa , for example , is intended to replicate the way in which we experience real life , in that events and information are presented to us in a disjointed fashion and it is only when we have lived through the reading experience that we are able to piece it all together with the benefit of hindsight . |
| 5 | Life is exactly as we have created it . |
| 6 | ‘ Could you please look around your yard/station/siding to see if it is there before we have to cancel trains because of lack of locomotives . ’ |