Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] need [not/n't] " in BNC.

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1 I think now that I need not have been so prim and stand-offish , but I was afraid to wound him further by giving him what might possibly be taken for false ‘ encouragement ’ .
2 I understand that I need not say anything unless I wish to do so and that what I say may be given in evidence . ’
3 The defence , apart from a point on the Consumer Credit Act 1974 that I need not examine , was that the transaction had been procured by undue influence on the part of the son and that the plaintiff was affected by that undue influence .
4 I begged the King so often for my freedom that at last he and his lords agreed that I need not be a prisoner any longer .
5 When I look back on the long friendship , I realize that I need not have had certain misgivings about troubling Eliot or taking up his time — misgivings due to temperamental diffidence rather than to genuine modesty , I am afraid — because he was both generous of his time and solicitous about the welfare of those in whom lie took an interest .
6 When I first started on the shoot , Sam Fawcett said that I need n't bother about the whisky and the cartridges but I had to watch the grouse , and not to let anyone come past them and pick one or two out .
7 " What the hell 's going on here Some bloody fool phoned my old man and told him that I need n't come in today , that Mrs. Schofield wanted me .
8 Leo , you must tell her that it is Doctor 's Orders that she must not look after her father any more — that it is too much for her — that she need not even see her father until she is quite well enough , and the doctor has himself offered to find a suitable place , so that she will know her father will be well looked after .
9 When Ruth saw Willie she realised that she need not have worried about him .
10 If the dream were to become reality , France must be militarily strong and find an ally so that she need not face Germany alone .
11 She merely smiled , admitting nothing , but knowing that she need not bother with denials .
12 Supported by her two companions she found that she need not even move her feet .
13 But was that not what she wanted — for a voice outside the clamour of her own head to tell her that she need not go back , that she must not go back ?
14 Having driven herself to meet Travis to obviate Naylor Massingham knowing that she had n't heeded his ‘ … in your interests not to see him again' warning , Leith discovered that she need not have bothered .
15 She took a dull sense of relief from the fact that she need not see Ven Gajdusek again .
16 Everything you need is available here from the tennis court which is floodlit at night so that you need n't play in the heat of the day , to the restaurants — the Timanfaya restaurant which serves snacks and full meals at discounted prices and the Indian restaurant .
17 It 's as well to laugh and I 'm , I 'm especially able to encourage you because I being a Christian know you know that sin wo n't have dominion over you so that you need n't be solemn about it
18 An employer who breaks the news of redundancy to you at 4.30 pm on a Friday afternoon , adding that you need not bother to work out your notice , is likely to incur the wrath of most industrial tribunals .
19 If your employer agrees to your early departure , you will still be regarded as dismissed in law if the agreement is simply , in effect , to bring forward your dismissal date or if it is agreed that you need not actually work during the remainder of your notice period .
20 Having said that you need not buy large quantities of any one flower , do remember that you are bound to have a certain percentage of failures in your press , no matter how hard you try .
21 It may be that you need not , after all , tie yourself up in matrimony . ’
22 ‘ The point I make is that you need not worry .
23 But , thanks to what God has made available through Jesus Christ our Lord , Paul knows that we need not remain defeated .
24 Yes , we do need to fight and I did make reference that we need not just to organize and cooperate with other public sector workers , but we actually need to build a campaign with the users of the services .
25 I remember my own mother saying , when I was undergoing tests to discover why my periods had stopped , that we need n't worry , they were an expensive nuisance , what did I want periods for anyway ?
26 Yes but the , that we need n't worry about at this stage I think .
27 Finally Americans and the rest of the world witnessed on television unbelievable scenes as a US Marine colonel and a US admiral both invoked the Fifth Amendment so that they need not tell the truth about their dishonest dealings .
28 One might think that they need not .
29 This obligation to inform now appears not in the Act but in the Code of Practice , which suggests not only that suspects should be told of their rights but also of ‘ the fact that they need not be exercised immediately ’ .
30 One of the major functions of education must be to open people 's eyes to the fact that things were at one time different ; that they have evolved to where they are now ; and that they need not necessarily always remain as they are .
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