Example sentences of "[pos pn] need [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm the questions you were asking just now were testing a possible implication that this policy is so weak in general , no no not weak , so general in its application that it really does n't get in the way , it 's testing that kind of hypothesis , and erm all I can say is from experience in North Yorkshire that , even without this policy since nineteen eighty , the county has been using its assertion of its need to protect the countryside generally as its policy position to stop things happening outside towns and villages and that with this policy in place we could see that a general position of the county maintained and then reinforced . |
| 2 | It was just beyond eleven when they finished , and Rory was well conscious of his need to use the telephone . |
| 3 | When one has told a friend about a stage performance or some media utterance that one feels he should go to see , one has performed that work to the friend and partly negated his need to see the work for himself . |
| 4 | He could not forget that Blackbeard had arrived on the scene sweating and then become coldly murderous in his need to get the wallet back . |
| 5 | Sendak ( Lorraine , 1977 , p. 157 ) stresses his need to tell the truth : |
| 6 | However , you must realize that here you are getting into the area of ‘ forcing ’ , and that your need to get what you want should be stronger than your need to maintain the relationship with the person . |