Example sentences of "[pers pn] needed to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I needed to be someone else , someone new . |
| 2 | I needed to be reassured that I had reached a hospitable culture … |
| 3 | I 'd promised my mother I 'd buy her some new central-heating , and the only time it could be fitted was the next week , so I needed to be home for Monday when the workmen came round . |
| 4 | ‘ People in football will understand — Lennie Lawrence told me I needed to be superhuman to perform in that atmosphere . |
| 5 | In embarking on this journey , I 'd put myself into store again and set off ; like the other women I needed safety , I needed to be taken care of , to take care of myself and now to take care of this journey . |
| 6 | From the tarn , I followed my nose down to a cairn that stands on the shoulder above Deepdale Side where the view down Deepdale into Dentdale was so good that I sat and looked at it for a good half-hour until the thought that I needed to be home by late afternoon pushed me on down to the green lane of the old Craven Way . |
| 7 | I needed to be alone . |
| 8 | But I needed to be sure that you had not forgotten your homesite . |
| 9 | ‘ Not as sharp as I needed to be , though , ’ she said . |
| 10 | But it was because I needed other women , and I needed to be truthful about it . |
| 11 | ‘ I needed to be told , ’ he conceded drily , facing her across the coffee-table . |
| 12 | ‘ I had n't realised that I needed to be a hypochondriac to qualify for your — affections . ’ |
| 13 | I needed to be nobody , to find out how ordinary people lived . |
| 14 | ‘ When I got here , ’ he said expressionlessly , ‘ I realised I needed to be in love with more than just a city . |
| 15 | McLeish glanced at the clock on Yeo 's desk and saw that he was running behind ti me , as tended to happen at this stage in an investigation when you needed to be in six places at once . |
| 16 | ‘ It was the fact that you needed to be told that made telling you impossible . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You needed to be rescued , did n't you ? |
| 18 | ‘ Because it should never have happened the way it did , but if I was angry it was with myself , not you , because you needed to be courted , to be given time , and I gave you none . |
| 19 | She said you needed to be uninvolved . |
| 20 | You needed to be reassured of my love for you . |
| 21 | Soderstrom — who later in the concert jokingly apologised for her scratchiness — was obviously miserable , more miserable than she needed to be , about the quality of the sound she was making , and her misery took the form of distinguished concentration on pitch , so that there were many small uncharacteristic faults in her intonation . |
| 22 | Suddenly , overpoweringly , she needed her mother , she needed to be taken in her mother 's arms , like a little child and to be held there . |
| 23 | Maggie did not want to take her arms away from Phoebe , she needed to be held . |
| 24 | She needed to be the centre of attention and her clothes showed her love of display . |
| 25 | She wanted to , she really did , but she needed to be made to feel she could , or rather that she could n't not , that it was out of her hands , that she could n't help herself . |
| 26 | But the walls of her room seemed suddenly oppressive , and she needed to be somewhere less claustrophobic . |
| 27 | ‘ He was a great poet , ’ I said , as if she needed to be told . |
| 28 | She needed to be sick . |
| 29 | She rose quickly and lit the candles , all six of them which was wasteful , but she needed to be in the light for the shadows in the corners frightened her . |
| 30 | Frequently coming into the net , but solid as ever from the baseline when she needed to be , she reached her second Australian Open final in three years . |