Example sentences of "need [pron] at " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ She came to pick up some papers she sent to Dr Puddephat , and she needs them at once . |
2 | Will did n't need me at home , because he was busy writing his new play , A Midsummer Night 's Dream . |
3 | ‘ We 'll almost certainly need them at Punta Arenas . |
4 | we , we do n't really need them at home , do we ? |
5 | It is not a happy precedent and if Mr Major is to avoid it , he needs somebody at the Treasury who commands confidence , and who deserves it . |
6 | ‘ Your aunt needs you at her side . |
7 | Bless Marvin Gaye — but we do n't need him at the moment ! |
8 | It had hurt him , Groa knew , that his father did not need him at his side now , in the first hour of real danger since Rognvald had tried to claim the north seven years before . |
9 | she 's gon na need her at weekends as well , in the summer , because she 'll be away eventing . |
10 | Especially now that his grandfather is no longer as robust as he once was , and needs him at Arrancay . ’ |
11 | I mean , does it really bore them ( so that they do n't need it at all in their lives ) or does it secretly shock and dismay them , so that they have to pretend to be bored ? |
12 | Sometimes I did n't even need it at all I could walk about shopping and everything . |
13 | If she felt the presence of a man she had never known here in this house , just how much did Marguerite feel his presence and just how much did she need it at this time ? |
14 | Not that I shall probably need it at all . |
15 | Good God , yes I know it 's been very , very heavy here too , there were certain areas over here certainly needed a bit of rain , but now there 's certainly did n't need it at all |
16 | Say they needed it at eight , they thought they might need it at eight o'clock and then turned out they did n't , because one body else came in the restaurant , then they 'd just stick that in the fridge over night , and put it out the next morning . |
17 | ‘ It 's now coming up for its 12,000 mile service , and does n't feel as though it needs it at all . |
18 | And if he 'd have needed me at six he 'd have got me up at five . |
19 | And it was n't arbitrary it was where we needed somebody at that time . |
20 | But today , she could not take part , she pleaded illness , she invoked Caterina , who needed her at home , she said , for she was still poorly . |
21 | Indeed , she was starting to wonder — in a moment of forlornness that was unlike her — if anyone needed her at all . |
22 | ‘ We needed her at our meeting with the chairman this morning . |
23 | Say they needed it at eight , they thought they might need it at eight o'clock and then turned out they did n't , because one body else came in the restaurant , then they 'd just stick that in the fridge over night , and put it out the next morning . |
24 | THE CASE of the diabetic who took insulin for 52 years , only to turn out not to need it at all , is bemusing doctors . |
25 | Drugs always do better in nervous markets because people need them at least as much , if not more , when the economy is doing badly than when it starts to recover . |
26 | Well there 's no point in bringing them in-house then because the people need them at their homes |
27 | This poor creature should be back with his family who undoubtedly need him at this dreadful time . ’ |