Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] need " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Although I ceased to need the physical link some years ago , I still have the ability to use it . ’ |
| 2 | On the other hand , it 's not cheap and the slight lag between mouse movements and the screen response I experienced needs sorting . |
| 3 | The , the motion I moved needs to be adjusted because of our decision on the probation committee , earlier . |
| 4 | One night I was working late and I started to need to jerk off . |
| 5 | When I took over there were a lot of things I felt needed to be dealt with . |
| 6 | Cos I thought needs a pair of decent jeans . |
| 7 | ‘ There were a couple of things I thought needed to be dealt with straight away . ’ |
| 8 | I did need a few stitches , but frequent use of the bidet helped fast healing . |
| 9 | So I did need gravel which was totally hardness-free . |
| 10 | I really did n't need another jumper , but what I did need was a button-to-the-neck cardigan . |
| 11 | The yarn I was using was cotton , a double knitting weight and not the best for cabling at any time and I did need to have cables , since I had sketched them into my design . |
| 12 | How very difficult it was to accept that I did need it and to show that I needed it . |
| 13 | ‘ I felt I had to come in and have a drink , because I did need one so . |
| 14 | However , I did need to have a piss even more desparately than before . |
| 15 | I had needed to break our journey north int he capital to see someone in the tourist board 's head office . |
| 16 | I had needed to replace my torch , nicked in Nazca , and my alarm . |
| 17 | It did not take me long to realize that this was the man I had needed so badly . ’ |
| 18 | I suppose it is not impossible that , if I had needed to make application to the authorities to undertake a dash to and from London for the purpose I had in mind , the brother-in-law 's request might by some happy chance have ‘ married up ’ with my own application . |
| 19 | And if I had needed proof , it was there to be seen after . |
| 20 | All you seemed to need was the right ingredients and a competent chemist . |
| 21 | Whatever they do , it ca n't be the placebo effect : she 'd need to remember that she 'd taken something . |
| 22 | She 'd needed all her courage then , to stand over him and introduce herself ; to refuse to be sent away , to admit that she had come to Geneva in vain . |
| 23 | Had she only responded because she 'd needed to be loved ? |
| 24 | Her limbs trembled , her heart beginning to pound like a sledge-hammer at the note of hard determination in his voice , which betrayed no weakness or breathlessness , evidence — if she 'd needed it — of his superbly fit physique . |
| 25 | Oh , the benison of it , she thought , for she seemed to need comfort now , not only because she was tired after the journey and far away from John , but because she had admitted to herself that she loved him , had let her love sweep over her like a kind of illness , ‘ giving in ’ to flu , conscious only of the present moment . |
| 26 | Which is something you did need to take into account . |
| 27 | Oh dear , she did need some new ones ! |
| 28 | However , she did need professional help . |
| 29 | She did need a shower to wash away the tension from a day that had been too full of emotion . |
| 30 | Perhaps , in spite of the fact that she did need the money , what she ought to do was just catch the first plane back home . |