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 . ’
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