Example sentences of "need [to-vb] [pron] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she lives on her own and poor health has robbed her of a normal social life , it is to be expected that her loneliness may have created such a build-up of unexpressed thoughts , feelings and opinions that she may need to talk herself to a standstill before she is ready to converse with you , and interest herself in anything you have to say . |
| 2 | you certainly do need to keep them for a while . |
| 3 | Place and spirit of place is the inspiration of more poetry than we nowadays like to admit ; and to do that poetry justice , the critic needs to turn himself into a tourist . |
| 4 | The trainer believes he still has time to get Rodrigo de Triano back to peak fitness for the 2,000 Guineas but stresses that the colt will not take his place in the Classic if the ground softens up : ‘ If there is even a touch of soft , he wo n't run ; he needs to have it like a road . ’ |
| 5 | Clearly something strange was happening to the Edwardian Conservative party : but does one need to label it as a flirtation with ‘ proto-Fascism ’ ? |
| 6 | The Labour Party must continue to reject the tax on the low paid , the young , the elderly , and needs to commit itself to a restoration of the Wages Councils , an increase in the power of the Wages Councils , and an improvement in the Wages Inspectorate , to ensure that all employers who break the minimum wages legislation be detected and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law . |
| 7 | Table 3.3 shows some alternative orderings for a word list of 2461 words , together with the number of edges needed to represent them in a dawg structure . |
| 8 | It was true of Eliot , as it was true of Dr Johnson , that he needed to read himself into a writing disposition ; and that is perhaps why some of his best essays were produced under the stimulus of a particular kind — a review-book or some text which would ‘ tie him down ’ . |
| 9 | So you 've got the right idea of dividing it by eight , but you needed to take it on a stage and see what the was . |
| 10 | But I need to see you for a moment . |
| 11 | Well I 'll I 'll fax it first thing in the morning on Monday right or somebody will so you can get it y'know we just need to monitor it for a week and that 's it . |
| 12 | The only thing they really lacked was that extra bit of meanness that you need to impose yourself on a game . ’ |
| 13 | But there is little likelihood of them giving home advantage to Garvey who have gone 32 games without defeat in the competition and need to win it for a record sixth time on the trot to reach Europe next year . |
| 14 | Now you rea fo w with a story like this you really need a erm a , a decent does of antibiotics and given the of the unpleasant taste and the pus you can see , ordinary penicillin probably wo n't do the trick , so we need to use something with a bit more oomph |
| 15 | It has a very efficient and accurate VAT return facility , and includes functions for everything you need to run anything from a small to multi-national company . |
| 16 | You need to structure it in a way that fits in with the argument that you 're go the line of argument you 're going to be putting before the magistrate . |
| 17 | You need to bring it to a place where God reaches out into the secret places of the soul . |