Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] need a new [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She later achieved her Financial Planning Certificate — the incentive for this was that she needed a new tumble drier , so the bonus for completing the qualification was perfectly timed ! |
| 2 | I just says to Mrs Sneddon that she needed a new battery for her hearing aid and that a daimen-icker in a thrave didny mean whit she thought it did ! |
| 3 | This is the basis on which my branch believes that we need a new rule which covers branches . |
| 4 | Speaking at the charter 's launch , Jonathon Porritt said that it was extraordinary that " people who are paying perhaps £200 a night are so dirty that they need a new towel every night " . |
| 5 | There is an initial paradox here of some importance for the future : the monastic life which he found at Canterbury appeared to him so decayed that it needed a new beginning , yet he did not sweep it away and establish an up-to-date archiepiscopal church served by a community of secular clerks , on the pattern of Rouen or Lyons or most other cathedral churches in Europe . |
| 6 | It was very dimly aware that it needed a new type of thought . |
| 7 | Perhaps the problem with the machine , thought many of the intellectuals , was that it needed a new design and improved principles to guide it . |
| 8 | The author is public relations adviser to the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators ALLEN SHEPPARD , chairman and group chief executive of Grand Metropolitan , reckons that business is now becoming so complex that he needs a new core of trained administrators . |
| 9 | If something goes disastrously wrong with your hair and you need a new look NOW , why not wear a wig ? |
| 10 | And she needs a new nappy or taken off altogether please . |
| 11 | ‘ I have to use my pension just to pay for food but it 's not enough to cover the bills or if you need a new coat or linen . |
| 12 | If you need a new light bulb or some other repair carried out , please ask at the reception desk , firmly but politely . |
| 13 | ten pillows , seven needed replacing and we needed a new milk saucepan , a new frying pan , a new ashtray |
| 14 | He looked very thin and he needed a new coat . |
| 15 | Right , and it needs a new battery as well I think |
| 16 | But , but you need a new set of targets anyway , and somehow you , y y you 've got ta and the May the fourth directive , by returning to land reform is beginning to open up those as possibilities . |
| 17 | Yeah , but we need a new poster though . |
| 18 | ‘ But we need a new axis lock crystal , ’ she told him . |
| 19 | Ant : Because I need a new shirt for school disco on Friday . |
| 20 | Now we do have some dresses that are like that , but the ordinary ones , I think were made in , because she needed a new dress and she needed it pretty soon , so some of the sewing is just terrible . |
| 21 | Goblander was not just an anagram on old banger , it really expressed the way that decrepit old van had of gobbling up petrol as it chugged through the countryside making awful noises because it needed a new silencer . |
| 22 | In real terms the cost had n't changed that much since the days of hot metal when you needed a new matrix for each font and , after all , why should it have . |
| 23 | She could n't really afford it and when she needed a new cylinder it had to be humped up three flights of stairs , always a nuisance for which she had to enlist the help of one of her boyfriends , but when she got cold Theresa 's fingers turned numb , white , bloodless lumps that no longer seemed to belong to her hands . |