Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adv] need " in BNC.
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1 | She did not need , while wearing boots with the mud still on them , to give the teacher an advanced lesson in maths . |
2 | She spent little and even caring for her lodgers generously she did not need half the income she found she earned . |
3 | Now , she did not need them . |
4 | When she came to the yellow and blue ones , she did not need to count the beads on the teacher 's necklace , but simply picked up three together with one hand and threaded them . |
5 | She did not need to ring . |
6 | But she did not need John Major to tell her what was going on . |
7 | She said that she did not need the police ; that she was just out of hospital and had no knowledge of anything requiring police attention . |
8 | Louise lost no time in telling Constance that she did not need to return to Northumberland . |
9 | She did not need to go on . |
10 | She knew in her heart that she did not need drugs , she needed rest , patience and understanding from those around her . |
11 | She did not need Jarvis to tell her of the phenomenon of the shivering platform at West Hampstead as a train approaches , that and the singing of the rails , because she was accustomed to the point of no longer noticing it . |
12 | She did not need to speak her pain to any but her God . |
13 | She did not need evidence , she assured me , it was a well-known fact . |
14 | Seeing Curtis at the door in that way she did not need him to repeat his announcement . |
15 | Blanche had increasingly come to accept that doing her best was good enough and that she did not need to measure herself against some ideal standard . |
16 | Her fortitude was such that she did not need to unload on to him her emotional worries . |
17 | Victorine protested that she did not need a new scarf and that green was not her colour . |
18 | the other hand he accepted the ministrations of Rosalba with pointed gratitude , looking up at her when it was her turn to bend over him , though she did not need to bend from the waist , wand-like as her sister , but rather leaned her plump body forward to adjust some dish , brush off some crumbs with a dithery movement that suggested — again he felt a stab of pity , followed by impatience — that her own body was always in her way . |
19 | She did not need diamonds to complete her magnificence . |
20 | Then she remembered that it was only a selection of the poems he had been reading and she did not need to speculate further , for — much to her surprise — he began to read |
21 | She did not need to have that pointed out to her . |
22 | She did not need to be told that they had been happy here , the three of them . |
23 | She did not need to dig deep to know that she would not be satisfied with her old way of life , with her quiet existence and with Glyn . |
24 | She did not need Jacques 's laconic , ‘ We have arrived , mademoiselle , ' to tell her that this was Les Hiboux . |
25 | In fact , at the time when Macmillan 's advice was sought he had ceased to be Prime Minister and it is the more odd that the Queen on this occasion should have , in Macmillan 's words , said that ‘ she did not need and did not intend to seek any other advice but mine ’ . |
26 | So she did not need to go on the offensive and was not required to fight . |
27 | So Angela did n't want to get involved — she did n't need the capital , after all — and she said to me she might do it in a year or so when Miss Huntley had calmed down . ’ |
28 | She did n't need them badly . |
29 | She did n't need to be on her guard all the time . |
30 | Besides , Simon 's door was the one she was counting on : she did n't need any other escape route . |