Example sentences of "did [adv] need [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She attended the English Church until Lowe was dismissed and then tactfully discovered she had her own chaplain and therefore did not need to attend either of the rival churches . |
| 2 | To do this he did not need to make any apparently arbitrary appeal to particular revelation or received authority . |
| 3 | Major Burrows had dealt with the matter so effectively the father did not need to administer any further punishment . |
| 4 | She did not need to have that pointed out to her . |
| 5 | The employer of wage labour , by contrast , did not need to have this concern with the welfare of his workers . |
| 6 | In any case , correlations between birth-determined groups and occupation did not need to have any historical or ritual justification , as the number of Karava carpenters , Moor masons , and Indian Tamil plantation labourers demonstrated . |
| 7 | I did not need to imagine such a day , I could remember plenty . |
| 8 | And erm it was to the management 's credit that we did n't need to invoke any er disciplinary procedure as such . |
| 9 | She did n't need to see that stiff back to know all was not well . |
| 10 | They did n't need to do that , charging in the way they did . |
| 11 | You did n't need to do this for a laugh ! |
| 12 | His fingers came up and snapped once again and he did n't need to say any more . |
| 13 | As we had already linked Imlil-Toubkal with the Nfis we did n't need to repeat that half to complete our explorations . |
| 14 | I did n't need to use any weights as the skeins were heavy enough to pull out the kinks . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They did n't need to know much more . |
| 17 | the licensing they sent a reminder this morning , I said they did n't need do that , I know it 's last day of April , it 's gone up |
| 18 | No doubt he would have made a nasty remark , and she did n't need to hear any more of them . |
| 19 | I did n't need to apply much pressure and even though I cut myself once , my skin was smooth afterwards . |