Example sentences of "what [pron] need is " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What I need is a nice girl , ’ he said . |
| 2 | What I need is an introduction to a new house , where I can meet these fresh delightful creatures . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ What I need is a miracle . ’ |
| 4 | What I need is advice from time to time . |
| 5 | What I need is a New Testament Christianity that speaks to the modern man that I am now ; a faith , in short , that is real and challenging to modernity . |
| 6 | What I need is a holiday somewhere nice , Florida methinks . |
| 7 | ‘ What I need is a vet for my cat , ’ she said . |
| 8 | The dilemma is not even as simple as this , because under certain conditions , exactly what I need is to see someone else going through the steps , or to have my behaviour confirmed , or to hear the generality articulated . |
| 9 | What I need is a couple of hours ’ peace and quiet and I 'll be fine for the presentation tomorrow — besides , ’ she added persuasively , ‘ it 's not as if the party was being thrown for us . |
| 10 | ‘ What I need is an undertaker . |
| 11 | 1.7 Example ( 26 ) shows us the second and less common relation contributing to the unfolding of syntactic structures , which we shall call equation , adopting the obvious symbol to represent it : ( 26 ) Fitzpatrick , our neighbour , used to plant potatoes the subject exemplifies the basic pattern [ E = E ] , ( as does the underlined portion of ( 22 ) ) ; in more exact terms , what we have in this subject phrase is : As we have just remarked , equational phrases are rarer than phrases involving qualification ; and , among them , there is a very large disproportion in favour of equation between E and E , rather than between P and P. Nevertheless , the latter can be found ; two examples would be : ( 28 ) what I need is a cup of strong , dark coffee for a fast , convenient trip to the city , take the Skytram This is clearly not to say that strong and dark , or fast and convenient , are equivalent at the type level ; only that on some particular occasion of use , as here , they may be regarded by speaker , or copywriter , as equivalent . |
| 12 | What I need is a nice little research job where I can write my books and keep well away from them . ’ |
| 13 | But I what I need is any anybody |
| 14 | What I need is to be alone . ’ |
| 15 | And what I need is an ‘ ot cocoa , or an ‘ ot something ’ . |
| 16 | What I need is |
| 17 | Cos what I need is like a block of wood . |
| 18 | Make sure that you talk to a number of people to find out whether what you need is available . |
| 19 | Where Morley offends the gangbusters is in saying that crack does n't invariably kill or addict , and that , if what you need is a change of mind , it can be fun while it lasts . |
| 20 | ‘ I totally accept that what you need is the ability to get people to believe in the vision that you put forward of the company , to accept it and to be willing to work towards it . |
| 21 | What you need is rest and good food . ’ |
| 22 | What you need is a record of seven to ten days of fairly typical intake of food and drink . |
| 23 | A girl sits down with a man and he says , ‘ What you need is a good romance and it so happens I 'm very romantic ’ — that 's marketing . |
| 24 | What you need is something with a bit of muscle , but which is frugal enough not to bankrupt you before you get within sight of open water . |
| 25 | ‘ But what you need is something to do . |
| 26 | ‘ You talk about getting a job — but what you need is a good long rest . |
| 27 | What you need is catharsis : get it all down on paper and send it to the Freudian fret folk at Guitarist . |
| 28 | What you need is the willingness to sit with yourself and discover this . |
| 29 | Finally , he said : ‘ What you need is publicity . ’ |
| 30 | What you need is a quiet , reasonably warm and well-lit room and a comfortable ( not too comfortable ! ) chair and a table or desk to work at . |