Example sentences of "he [verb] need " in BNC.
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| 1 | He admitted needing four years of therapy to get over their 10-year marriage . |
| 2 | Rose , laughing , took the gloves away as he pretended to need them to wear about the house . |
| 3 | He says need another wire |
| 4 | I must have been chatting to him for about 20 minutes and he told me he 'd needed an urgent lift . |
| 5 | He 'd needed help — yes ! |
| 6 | She owed it to the town , and she owed it to the memory of Frank Williams , her father , who 'd had no one to fight for him when he 'd needed it most . |
| 7 | It was thoughtless of Miguel to take the vehicle — but maybe he 'd needed it in a hurry . |
| 8 | Mm , mm its one of the great arguments from the old fashioned sort of religion , that you could turn , you could definitely turn to people and say why are you leaning on me so hard , for all this to fought , you ought to be reading your bible , saying your prayers , going to church and getting in touch with the boss why I laughed when they were saying that Terry Waite would need counselling , I bet that Terry Waite was praying his head off and he 'd memorised masses of the bible which he would be reciting to himself probably set himself two o'clock every afternoon , I remember what I can , book of you know I do n't suppose he 'd needed any counselling , he 'd probably do better counselling other people . |
| 9 | Admiration was something he seemed to need most of all . |
| 10 | In normal spirits he seemed to need only two steps to cross a room . |
| 11 | I felt very down , but once he began to need my milk it seemed worthwhile and I gradually began to produce a little more at each pumping . |
| 12 | Frank Jessop was in his late 60's when he started needing to get up three or four times each night to pass urine , and he was referred to his local hospital 's urology department . |
| 13 | And now he seems to need me , I said to myself . |
| 14 | ‘ He seems to need someone to talk to . ’ |
| 15 | Yes er and of course i if er rather like it seems as happened last week , if he seems to have got a bit of time he seems to need to have to extend it |
| 16 | He feels need to put power in the hands of consumers so institutions reflect rights and needs — ; ‘ the empowerment of the citizen as consumer needs to challenge professionals/managers — ; to enable a society of active citizens rather than experts ’ . |
| 17 | Yet he would spend hours pleading with a reluctant employer to take on a boy he knew needed desperately to work . |
| 18 | He felt needed , he felt secure . |
| 19 | He was wily enough to recognise that he did need his stepson ; more than David himself would ever know ; or at least needed him until his own son could be found and persuaded home . |
| 20 | He did need her , after all . |
| 21 | Not typing or anything — he said he did n't need a secretary ; what he did need , he said , was someone to keep his office nice . |
| 22 | But the baby — Steve would be shocked when he found out and perhaps Fernando was right , he did need her support . |
| 23 | Durfey may have written the lyrics himself , adding a coded signature to cock a snook at his detractors ( ‘ The Town may da-da-da-m me as a poet , but they sing my songs for all that ’ ) ; or he may conceivably have acted the part himself , for money he appeared to need , and plenty of laughs backstage . |
| 24 | He had needed it ever since he was a child . |
| 25 | For him this was challenging enough , and if he had needed a faith to live by it would have been starkly sufficient . |
| 26 | One known and accepted fact provided the argumentative weight he had needed , and could now build upon . |
| 27 | Manville remembered now , what it had all been about , why he had needed so desperately to return to this , at least once before he died . |
| 28 | The linesman called it wide — Australian umpire Wayne Mckewan , who had been forced to demand ‘ Silence , s'il vous plaît ’ , almost as often as he had needed to call the score , agreed — and Forget not only lost this point but the next two as well to be 15–40 . |
| 29 | He had needed to shoot two or three . |
| 30 | When Glenn thinks about what would have happened if he had needed the transplant now rather than two-and-a-half years ago he says he gets cold shivers . |