Example sentences of "his [adj] need for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite this demonstration of his habitual need for normal sleep , even if only for a few hours a night , this same individual appeared on television a few years later , again claiming never to sleep . |
| 2 | The information on the Sports Council database helped the pupil to clarify his real needs for information and make decisions based on the information he found . |
| 3 | So while his real need for me had something to do with prac-ticalities , he reinforced in me the sense that his need had something to do with his sister 's death . |
| 4 | He was able to sell the leaves for high prices , and people said he earned enough in one month to meet his annual needs for cash . |
| 5 | In the context of Coleridge this translates into the struggle between the emergence of his less amenable side , with his simple need for and love of people , which always included himself . |
| 6 | One night , in a state of despair , he drank several cans of lager with friends from college — and on the way home , expressed years of frustration against his parents ' beliefs ( as well as his deep need for their love ) by throwing stones at the stained glass windows . |
| 7 | He was too close , too overpoweringly desirable , and there was no mistaking his physical need for her at that moment . |
| 8 | One motive , of course , was his desperate need for some congenial company . |
| 9 | That bond was not created by dominance — ‘ I 'll teach that horse who 's master ’ — but by manipulating the horse 's curiosity , his desire for safety , and his overwhelming need for bonding . |
| 10 | He had left her alone deliberately on that Sunday night , and again on the Monday , but by the end of Tuesday even his iron control had disintegrated in the face of his overwhelming need for her . |
| 11 | And he , so apparently casual — punitively casual — often irritated by her anxiety , could also rely on her being there for him , but without having to know about his own need for her to be safely where he had left her . |
| 12 | The essential point is that sexuality as such disturbed him — even in his early letters to Conrad Aiken we see his sexual impulses towards women engaged in an unequal struggle with his own need for self-possession ( or self-preservation ) and control . |
| 13 | He spoke of his own need for forgiveness first . |
| 14 | Back with his own cast , he was determined to keep them at it as long as possible , fulfilling his own need for manic activity . |
| 15 | The amount which each farmer or other seller offers for sale at any price is governed by his own need for money in hand , and by his calculation of the present and future conditions of the market with which he is connected . |
| 16 | Face to face with him ( the first time since receiving their inheritance from him ) , they attack his claimed need for a hundred knights . |