Example sentences of "he needed some " in BNC.

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1 He needed some nice girl of Anthony 's age to prove his point .
2 He needed some excitement , even if he had to make it himself !
3 ‘ All he said was that he was in trouble and that he needed some money to get out of the country .
4 When Mr Stephens went out to buy more provisions for tea — though his excuse offered was that he needed some tobacco — John sat in chair on one side of the kitchen , Emily stood by the window on the other side , both on their best behaviour .
5 As luck would have it , Jean-Claude found he needed some old scores he had put to one side as they were too heavy to bring along with everything else we had had to load on the motor cycle .
6 The sergeant nodded with approval , knowing that he needed some way to dissipate his nervous energy in the coming hours .
7 Maybe he needed some moral support : I jumped up onto the fence and glared at the woman .
8 No doubt she encouraged Mr Macmillan at a time when he needed some encouragement ; and there seemed little danger to the Constitution in this fact being revealed in 1973 to those readers of Sir Harold 's memoirs who had stayed the course through the Winds of Change , the Blast of War , and the Tides of Fortune to the End of the Day .
9 He needed some coffee .
10 He needed some toothpaste so he went into the chemists .
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