Example sentences of "we needed [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it is radical because at the time when I took over we needed to be radical . |
| 2 | We needed to be persuaded of the case and we had gone through the BR figures line by line . |
| 3 | Meanwhile I had to get Harry well propped so that he would n't fall forward and drown after all , and to do that I reckoned we needed to be in the corner . |
| 4 | Sergei and Masha came to my room and I opened a bottle of mineral water : we all felt we needed to be abstemious . |
| 5 | And having earned more and kept more we needed to be good housekeepers . |
| 6 | We needed to be clear about the nature and purpose of English as a school subject . |
| 7 | And that me and my old pal Norman Whiteside were on a collision course with him , that we needed to be split up . |
| 8 | The teachers , however , decided that we needed to be kept busy over the long weekend and gave us lots of work to do . |
| 9 | I had a friend , she now manages the Eurythmics with her husband , but at that time , none of us needed to be in such luxury but none of us said no if it was offered and DeFries always observed the Noel Coward code and said , ‘ You should travel through life first class . ’ |