Example sentences of "[pers pn] did need " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did need a few stitches , but frequent use of the bidet helped fast healing . |
| 2 | So I did need gravel which was totally hardness-free . |
| 3 | I really did n't need another jumper , but what I did need was a button-to-the-neck cardigan . |
| 4 | The yarn I was using was cotton , a double knitting weight and not the best for cabling at any time and I did need to have cables , since I had sketched them into my design . |
| 5 | How very difficult it was to accept that I did need it and to show that I needed it . |
| 6 | ‘ I felt I had to come in and have a drink , because I did need one so . |
| 7 | However , I did need to have a piss even more desparately than before . |
| 8 | Which is something you did need to take into account . |
| 9 | Oh dear , she did need some new ones ! |
| 10 | However , she did need professional help . |
| 11 | She did need a shower to wash away the tension from a day that had been too full of emotion . |
| 12 | Perhaps , in spite of the fact that she did need the money , what she ought to do was just catch the first plane back home . |
| 13 | She did need rescuing , though not for the reason he imagined . |
| 14 | Looking back , I need not have turned my nose up with such scorn when any of them approached me , as I 'm sure they did need some friendly contacts , but if one showed any signs of friendliness , they interpreted this as an invitation to attach themselves to you for the rest of the day , and probably the night too . |
| 15 | Thus readers are aware that Guide supports fonts ( etc. ) in some way , but can be totally unaware of the concept of logical objects — probably a good thing because evidence from the use of word processors indicates that if they did need to know about logical objects , they would be put off . |
| 16 | And I felt that they did need some kind of ongoing support . |
| 17 | They did need more evidence . |
| 18 | In this , they did need the enthusiastic support of the chairperson . |
| 19 | Now we travelled the best part of the Ukraine and we also dipped into and er we were there about a month , just under a month , and erm one of the impressions that I got there , just as an ordinary chap , no , not learned politically so I ca n't speak on the level er of most of your callers today , but er , I realise that here you had er people , in actual fact my my comment was the country 's half finished , everywhere you went there were building constructions so far incomplete , er projects underway and you 've got the impression that they did need communism in a way to make the thing work er , the er , let's take the Ukrainians , I mean that , that 's where the Cossacks come from and they love a good time , er those sort of people in a way need a strong government . |
| 20 | He was wily enough to recognise that he did need his stepson ; more than David himself would ever know ; or at least needed him until his own son could be found and persuaded home . |
| 21 | He did need her , after all . |
| 22 | Not typing or anything — he said he did n't need a secretary ; what he did need , he said , was someone to keep his office nice . |
| 23 | But the baby — Steve would be shocked when he found out and perhaps Fernando was right , he did need her support . |
| 24 | But it did need permanent supervision of weapons , gunpowder , and equipment ; and this was provided by the emergence under Henry VIII of a centralized Ordnance Office . |
| 25 | because I mean once you 've taken all the pictures down , I think it did need it |
| 26 | It did need it . |