Example sentences of "that [pers pn] need " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think now that I need not have been so prim and stand-offish , but I was afraid to wound him further by giving him what might possibly be taken for false ‘ encouragement ’ . |
| 2 | I understand that I need not say anything unless I wish to do so and that what I say may be given in evidence . ’ |
| 3 | Fortunately it is only to a few that I need refer . |
| 4 | The defence , apart from a point on the Consumer Credit Act 1974 that I need not examine , was that the transaction had been procured by undue influence on the part of the son and that the plaintiff was affected by that undue influence . |
| 5 | I begged the King so often for my freedom that at last he and his lords agreed that I need not be a prisoner any longer . |
| 6 | When I first started on the shoot , Sam Fawcett said that I need n't bother about the whisky and the cartridges but I had to watch the grouse , and not to let anyone come past them and pick one or two out . |
| 7 | " What the hell 's going on here Some bloody fool phoned my old man and told him that I need n't come in today , that Mrs. Schofield wanted me . |
| 8 | When I look back on the long friendship , I realize that I need not have had certain misgivings about troubling Eliot or taking up his time — misgivings due to temperamental diffidence rather than to genuine modesty , I am afraid — because he was both generous of his time and solicitous about the welfare of those in whom lie took an interest . |
| 9 | Leo , you must tell her that it is Doctor 's Orders that she must not look after her father any more — that it is too much for her — that she need not even see her father until she is quite well enough , and the doctor has himself offered to find a suitable place , so that she will know her father will be well looked after . |
| 10 | When Ruth saw Willie she realised that she need not have worried about him . |
| 11 | If the dream were to become reality , France must be militarily strong and find an ally so that she need not face Germany alone . |
| 12 | She merely smiled , admitting nothing , but knowing that she need not bother with denials . |
| 13 | Supported by her two companions she found that she need not even move her feet . |
| 14 | But was that not what she wanted — for a voice outside the clamour of her own head to tell her that she need not go back , that she must not go back ? |
| 15 | Having driven herself to meet Travis to obviate Naylor Massingham knowing that she had n't heeded his ‘ … in your interests not to see him again' warning , Leith discovered that she need not have bothered . |
| 16 | She took a dull sense of relief from the fact that she need not see Ven Gajdusek again . |
| 17 | Everything you need is available here from the tennis court which is floodlit at night so that you need n't play in the heat of the day , to the restaurants — the Timanfaya restaurant which serves snacks and full meals at discounted prices and the Indian restaurant . |
| 18 | The only trouble is that you need separate tools to make the hole and to drive the screw . |
| 19 | An employer who breaks the news of redundancy to you at 4.30 pm on a Friday afternoon , adding that you need not bother to work out your notice , is likely to incur the wrath of most industrial tribunals . |
| 20 | If your employer agrees to your early departure , you will still be regarded as dismissed in law if the agreement is simply , in effect , to bring forward your dismissal date or if it is agreed that you need not actually work during the remainder of your notice period . |
| 21 | Having said that you need not buy large quantities of any one flower , do remember that you are bound to have a certain percentage of failures in your press , no matter how hard you try . |
| 22 | Let me first thank you for your help , and assure you that you need have no fear . ’ |
| 23 | Something that 's very important that you need consider . |
| 24 | And you know , too , that you need have no fear of losing me when I marry . |
| 25 | It may be that you need not , after all , tie yourself up in matrimony . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ The point I make is that you need not worry . |
| 27 | It 's as well to laugh and I 'm , I 'm especially able to encourage you because I being a Christian know you know that sin wo n't have dominion over you so that you need n't be solemn about it |
| 28 | I remember my own mother saying , when I was undergoing tests to discover why my periods had stopped , that we need n't worry , they were an expensive nuisance , what did I want periods for anyway ? |
| 29 | But the fact that each group came into existence in its own time and for its own reasons , and found its own identity and direction , means that we need have no fear about it losing its autonomy vis-à-vis the other groups . |
| 30 | This is not to say that we need take so unconscionable a time to establish industrial democracy , but only that it would be naive to suppose that there will be no doubts and difficulties — and that it would be a great mistake to let them deter us from starting from present worse to go to prospective better . |