Example sentences of "as [pers pn] needed [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not as sharp as I needed to be , though , ’ she said . |
| 2 | It 's lovely if you can stay in your flat as long as you needed to . |
| 3 | She was a clever old — Well , let's just say she was cleverer than Maurice thought , though not as clever as she needed to be . |
| 4 | He took an almost paternal interest in them , and fretted about the fact that they did not lead as settled a life as they needed in order to work properly : he believed , for example , that Auden was wasting his talents . |
| 5 | The rationale of the putting-out system was that it enabled the merchant capitalist to draw on only as much labour as he needed at any given condition of the market . |