Example sentences of "[pers pn] needed [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't at all what Luce had expected , and , seeing her puzzled frown , he said hastily , apologetically , ‘ I hope you do not mind using the rear entrance , but I needed to go this way to get to my next appointment . ’ |
| 2 | But I found him very stimulating to be with , full of ideas , I needed to meet such people . |
| 3 | He had gone to great trouble to ascertain ways in which my knowledge of Italy and especially Libya might be put to use : As I was once again unemployed and earning no money , I needed to obtain some work . |
| 4 | I decided that I needed to get some support , to find someone who could , let us say , take charge of me and give me advice . |
| 5 | I needed to share all your life , not just a few hours in bed every night . ’ |
| 6 | Erm but yes , lots of people from the flats , either taking part in terms of sitting on the committee and doing all the planning and getting all the various permissions that you needed to do all sorts of things . |
| 7 | Chin up , Jay , she told herself , you needed to hear that . |
| 8 | Being part of the racing establishment , he could be helpful to her , and he had seemed to understand why she needed to pursue this , and it would n't be that painful to see him again . |
| 9 | Lucy almost quailed beneath the onslaught of his wrath , but she persisted with her argument , mainly because she needed to have this point cleared in her own mind . |
| 10 | I 've felt for sometime we needed to put more pressure on Welsh Office ministers who I feel are having a pretty easy time of it on the environmental front . |
| 11 | well I , I wanted therefore to put take project into the national press and to promote the product , given that that was the larger product in the market place and therefore if you want that would set the standards for the rest of the market place , that 's what I , I felt we needed to do that with the increasing number of competitors moving into market place |
| 12 | Despite our growth our financial problems became acute when we bought a computer , we needed to handle all our administration , and began running up against our overdraft limit . |
| 13 | It had become so difficult that we needed to help each other make it ; everyone who made it to Australia would win a trophy . |
| 14 | But still less did she want to make a scene or create any kind of curiosity amongst the people she had just left , so she allowed him to lead her from the room , saying , ‘ Yes , we needed to discuss those — er — charts , did n't we , Dr Russell ? ’ in case anyone was still listening . |
| 15 | Yes , it was not so much a deletion as er a reduction in the numbers because we were very mindful erm in going through the requirement erm and not making significant changes as far as the U K was concerned and we needed to make some savings in cost if at all possible and therefore we carried out a very comprehensive review of all the items of role equipment such as drop tanks er pylons , explosive release units and those type of things which had been provisionally earmarked for a very high intensive and fairly long running conflict and it was felt that if we were to make some savings then it was a sensible balance to reduce those numbers on the basis that we could save some money in the programme but at the same time many of these items could be bought later on at relatively short notice , clearly not within a conflict but in the years to come . |
| 16 | I had been so in love with her , and a part of me needed to mourn that loss of feeling . |
| 17 | I bet they needed to get some food inside of them . |
| 18 | They needed to understand that , at times , one or other symbolized the abandoning parent , reactivating in the other the child 's need to protest or cling . |
| 19 | Legislation , however , is a dangerous invention : ‘ It gave into the hands of men an instrument of great power which they needed to achieve some good , but which they have not yet learned so to control that it may not produce great evil ’ . |
| 20 | The Crown 's credit was good , but still it needed to assign some regular revenue : thus Cade had the farm of Dover from 1154 ( and presumably earlier ) until 1161 . |
| 21 | Why he needed to choose this moment to pass the time of day with all and sundry and — good grief ! — take a wad of notes from his back pocket and count them out with infuriating slowness — was anybody 's guess . |
| 22 | He needed to do some shopping for cleaning materials and other basic necessities and decided to go . |
| 23 | Precisely because a bishop 's hold on his diocese could be precarious , he needed to manipulate all the resources at his disposal ; contacts at court , family connections , the canons and the cult of the saints . |
| 24 | So he decided he needed to invest some time in , in that . |
| 25 | He needed to spend more time in Burford , discussing the terms of his future tenancy with James Price . |
| 26 | He needed to mobilize all his resources in order to control his diocese , much as kings had to do in order to rule their kingdoms . |
| 27 | He needed to know both the size of the total community for which he was responsible and the strength of the army he would soon have to deploy ( see also Num. 2:32–34 ; 26:1–4 , 63–65 ) . |
| 28 | Meredith was fascinated by the brief glimpse into his background , and wanted to ask why he needed to marry such a paragon . |
| 29 | He needed to summon all the devious cunning with which nature had endowed him if he were to escape . |
| 30 | He needed to eat some food . |