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 | You , you 've been there when we 've had |
| 4 | And you have to realize , none of us are there cos we 've got happy smiling faces . |
| 5 | ‘ The results were much as we had expected in an extremely tough year , ’ said Mr Heath yesterday . |
| 6 | It 's only because we 've had the bad luck to find ourselves in competition with Robert and Ian , otherwise we could have had all their present clients . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Life is exactly as we have created it . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | It was only after we had left , and were returning home that I realised what a good feeling it was to have helped someone in pain . |
| 12 | It was only after we had settled in and had sorted out our luggage that we realised that although it was still broad daylight , our watches told us that it was nearly two o'clock in the morning ! |
| 13 | It was just after we 'd heard about Mary . |
| 14 | Nothing , however , was quite as we 'd expected . |