Example sentences of "[pers pn] needed a new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I needed a new winter coat , and did not have the skill that Wendy had to make one out of a blanket . |
| 2 | I needed a new garden shed , but was in the middle of what economists call a ‘ negative cash flow situation ’ , with the big family summer holiday looming . |
| 3 | I needed a new designer and I had a very strong instinct that you were precisely what I was looking for . |
| 4 | ‘ I felt I needed a new challenge . |
| 5 | In real terms the cost had n't changed that much since the days of hot metal when you needed a new matrix for each font and , after all , why should it have . |
| 6 | Now we do have some dresses that are like that , but the ordinary ones , I think were made in , because she needed a new dress and she needed it pretty soon , so some of the sewing is just terrible . |
| 7 | She could n't really afford it and when she needed a new cylinder it had to be humped up three flights of stairs , always a nuisance for which she had to enlist the help of one of her boyfriends , but when she got cold Theresa 's fingers turned numb , white , bloodless lumps that no longer seemed to belong to her hands . |
| 8 | I just says to Mrs Sneddon that she needed a new battery for her hearing aid and that a daimen-icker in a thrave didny mean whit she thought it did ! |
| 9 | She later achieved her Financial Planning Certificate — the incentive for this was that she needed a new tumble drier , so the bonus for completing the qualification was perfectly timed ! |
| 10 | ten pillows , seven needed replacing and we needed a new milk saucepan , a new frying pan , a new ashtray |
| 11 | Which is why we needed a new hairstyle for you and a new image . ’ |
| 12 | We needed a new propeller , windshield , wing struts , rudder and other parts to repair the fabric . |
| 13 | They needed a new carpet in the hall , and on the stairs . |
| 14 | Christianity seemed more and more to mean clericalism and once the Second Crusade of 1147 was over the popular religious fervour that had been channelled into it needed a new outlet . |
| 15 | It was very dimly aware that it needed a new type of thought . |
| 16 | There is an initial paradox here of some importance for the future : the monastic life which he found at Canterbury appeared to him so decayed that it needed a new beginning , yet he did not sweep it away and establish an up-to-date archiepiscopal church served by a community of secular clerks , on the pattern of Rouen or Lyons or most other cathedral churches in Europe . |
| 17 | When landlord John Gardner bought the pub he decided it needed a new colour scheme . |
| 18 | When landlord John Gardner bought the pub he decided it needed a new colour scheme . |
| 19 | It needed a new word . |
| 20 | Perhaps the problem with the machine , thought many of the intellectuals , was that it needed a new design and improved principles to guide it . |
| 21 | Goblander was not just an anagram on old banger , it really expressed the way that decrepit old van had of gobbling up petrol as it chugged through the countryside making awful noises because it needed a new silencer . |
| 22 | The restaurateur handed over £500 after being told he needed a new gas pipe immediately . |
| 23 | He looked very thin and he needed a new coat . |