Example sentences of "[conj] all we [verb] is " in BNC.

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1 It is important however to dispel the ‘ big push ’ theory of change — that all we need is one last great effort to climb the next hill or round the next corner and we shall then arrive in the promised land of milk , honey and stability !
2 He says pub grub would conflict with this approach and that all we need is a good line in savouries .
3 The interviewer 's questions may be edited out so that all we see is the individual talking although the interviewer was in fact standing slightly to the left or right of the camera .
4 We try to get on with people , to be friendly with them and all we get is trouble .
5 It consists of three parallel cylinders of spongy tissue enclosed in an outer sheath of elastic skin and all we ask is that it stiffens on demand and performs its time-honoured functions without complaint .
6 Erm and all we ask is that if you if you 've said you 're coming to do a session , that you do actually turn up and if you ca n't then if you can telephone us as early as possible to let us know that you ca n't make it , that 's not a problem .
7 It has been presented as remote and ‘ surgical ’ — a technological war of such precision that only military targets are hit and all we experience is a tv screen demonstrating the spectacular nature of the equipment , and the helplessness of Third World enemies .
8 And all we say is that we pay extra commission if we send you away but it is against er against our principle and even er economics to send people that far away .
9 We think we do things for ourselves and all we do is live in odd corners of their world — under their floors , stealing things .
10 Now I 'm not saying that we stand here and all we do is that because when you want to emphasise a point then sometimes a a single non-symmetrical a single hand gesture is more appropriate .
11 Cos all we want is the words .
12 If all we need is a TOP Time-Out to find a solution to a problem , we should n't set up an Improvement Team .
13 In the second part , the poem moves away from this incident to consider the point of life if all we do is destroy one another .
14 The two things are very different , and yet if all we want is to produce consent , it can be got in either way .
15 Surely if all we want is prints off existing things all you need do is a request with a DOPACS number ?
16 you know , there 's no vow there , but all we do is join hands together , share blessings to both of us , and no vow , we never make any vow but they made a blessing for us .
17 Yeah we 've seen one or two up there , but all we do is to tell them er to get down .
18 Because all we do is argue .
19 We had dinner hours ago , and any way how could you get ill when all we had is stuff we 've always had ?
20 when all we want is the meeting
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