Example sentences of "they [verb] n't need " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an insult : they did n't need white nannies — did more than two black people in a room constitute a riot ? -were they to step back to the old plantation days ? — had Kinnock and Hattersley been drunk when they drafted the proposal ? |
| 2 | Still , even though they did n't need any staff , I must admit I thought Ann Summers was a funny one to pick . |
| 3 | They did n't need to know much more . |
| 4 | She does n't seem to have had intimate friends , except Miss Glover , and they did n't need to correspond , since they shared their house . |
| 5 | Some doctors have even put their patients through operations they did n't need . |
| 6 | Harvey checked with the photographer , the forensic expert , who both said they did n't need the body any more . |
| 7 | This also meant that they could get away earlier at night after the show , as they did n't need to wait for the curtain . |
| 8 | The stately measure of the band , who were not particularly loud , was the steady , elegant funk they put into the music ; they did n't need flashness or speed to get across . |
| 9 | It was the last day of shooting and they did n't need us till nine o'clock that morning , so Keenan [ Wynn ] and me went over to the bar and had a couple there and I said , ‘ You know , Keenan , it 's gon na be a long hot day so we 'd better stop off at the drug store and buy a jug . ’ |
| 10 | They did n't need to do that , charging in the way they did . |
| 11 | But at least they did n't need to worry about any area that came under Michael Stein 's remit . |
| 12 | The fact that we 'd all been put together was universally accepted as a sign that the end was so close that they did n't need to keep us apart any longer . |
| 13 | They did n't need their sirens at this time of the night . |
| 14 | No wonder they did n't need lights , the alarm system was warning enough . |
| 15 | And I mean if they 'd not looked in a paper in nineteen eighty seven eighty eight , and realized that fifteen percent of the fund had suddenly gone missing cos it had you know dropped they they 'd have still got income from their investments , and if they did n't need to cash it , then it would have been no problem at all . |
| 16 | ‘ They did n't need one till the hoi polloi came , ’ Fernie had once commented . |
| 17 | They did n't need to be rounded characterisations , just functional bit parts . |
| 18 | Girls , it 's a shame really I also find they did n't need to , they do n't , did n't need to work as hard as the ones years ago . |
| 19 | They did n't need prompting : you see , they really did think it was possible , likely , certain that money and fame had fingered them , that exceptionality had singled them out . |
| 20 | Then there was plenty of work for them but then when the erm , the one man buses really got going and they introduced the night safe on the buses , the ticket office was cut drastically , they did n't need to have all this information . |
| 21 | They did n't need her . |
| 22 | They did n't need the operation but they needed the food . |
| 23 | No one had forced any doors or windows , because they did n't need to , did they ? |
| 24 | They did n't need to . |
| 25 | They did n't need much encouragement . |
| 26 | A 1988 survey by Tony Dickson and others at Glasgow College and Strathclyde University found that IBM employees had no aversion to unions — just felt they did n't need them . |
| 27 | It was all very well Mahmoud saying they did n't need the body . |
| 28 | ‘ As usual , they 've missed the whole point they did n't need an inquiry , it 's obvious what went wrong , ’ he said . |
| 29 | But what we found was that the heavier breeds , the wine dots and the Rhode Island Reds , they did n't need such a high fence as what the leghorns or any of the lighter breeds needed . |
| 30 | They did n't need to take two and a half hours over it . |