Example sentences of "be only [subord] we have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ! |