Example sentences of "[verb] as [subord] [pron] need " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He looks as if he needs a drink , ’ said Nicholas , planing his voice into a gentle neutral tone . |
| 2 | He recommends shampooing hair at least twice a week , more often if it looks as if it needs it or you live in a city . |
| 3 | Looks as if it needs a good smack ! |
| 4 | But he did see that his usually tough , self-sufficient male parent was , for once , looking as if he needed bolstering up . |
| 5 | ‘ I wonder why she came , though ? ’ he said , ‘ she does n't look as if she needed a free meal . |
| 6 | He said he did n't mean to worry her but her mother did look as if she needed to see a doctor . |
| 7 | Over here it does n't even look as if you need access to the Royal Mint or the Bank of England to forge bank-notes , judging by the warning messages on the colour photocopiers that have stationed themselves inside the printing bureaux . |
| 8 | Well you do n't , you do n't really look as if you need to lose weight cos it 's probably why you got a few stares , it 's like all the diet books that have sylphlike people on the front . |
| 9 | I I hope this is not a mischievous comment , but I I think it 's very questionable , whether the Christian faith would be known as it is today , down two thousand years , had it not been for an innocent man , Jesus , being unjustly punished and crucified , and so many of the great reformers in the history of man , men and women have died or suffered grave imprisonment because of injustice , and in a paradoxical way , injustice in a way , yo you almost seem as if we need injustice to drive us on , to get things done in a , in a better way . |
| 10 | They look as if they need it . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Now come on , let's go and eat , you look as if you need to keep up your strength . ’ |
| 12 | You look as if you need a good meal . |
| 13 | You look as if you need it . ’ |
| 14 | You look as if you need it . ’ |
| 15 | You look as if you need one , ’ he said gruffly , indicating her bags . |
| 16 | Not , ’ Kay added cheerfully , ‘ that you look as if you need it . ’ |
| 17 | Yet satellite television is revolutionising entertainment as we know it in Britain today — the trouble is sometimes it sounds as if you need a first class degree to join in ! |
| 18 | He felt as if he needed it . |
| 19 | They both looked as if they needed it . |
| 20 | Jim Smith 's Cup-fighters were hoping to rekindle a fading promotion play-off challenge and they were forced to put out what was , on paper , their strongest team , even though many of them looked as if they needed a rest after their efforts at Highbury . |
| 21 | They looked as if they needed alcohol , or perhaps a blood transfusion : they were cadaverous . |
| 22 | He was dressed in a suit that looked as if it needed pressing . |
| 23 | And at the cemetery the vicar , a man who looked as if he needed far more consolation than he would ever be capable of dispensing , had agreed to say a few words before Henry 's address . |
| 24 | Pickerage looked as if he needed it . |
| 25 | She looked as if she needed that weekend away . |
| 26 | She looked as if she needed a pillow ; her head was thrown back awkwardly . |
| 27 | Dalgliesh thought : Why is he behaving as if I need tactful handling , as if I 'm suffering from a private grief ? |
| 28 | It sounded as if he needed another pair of hands for the trip ahead — which was another reprieve so far as Robbie was concerned . |