Example sentences of "they [adv] needed [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They just needed encouragement , incentive and a system that is outward-looking too . |
| 2 | Some of them did n't read music or tablature and they just needed chord symbols and little expressions that made sense to them . |
| 3 | But even with England manning the barricades so heroically , they still needed luck to hold on . |
| 4 | Yet even in these cases the situation could be an awkward one : senior partners needed both credibility and backing from the head ; they also needed tact and skill in the development enterprise , and such attributes are not an automatic concomitant of experience ; and client teachers needed to be able to accept that their practice needed such attention . |
| 5 | They often needed money above and beyond their budget ( though sometimes not much ) — because usually their budget was for the routine things they were doing , and if they wanted to do something novel , they had to find extra funds . |