Example sentences of "she needed to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soderstrom — who later in the concert jokingly apologised for her scratchiness — was obviously miserable , more miserable than she needed to be , about the quality of the sound she was making , and her misery took the form of distinguished concentration on pitch , so that there were many small uncharacteristic faults in her intonation . |
| 2 | Suddenly , overpoweringly , she needed her mother , she needed to be taken in her mother 's arms , like a little child and to be held there . |
| 3 | Maggie did not want to take her arms away from Phoebe , she needed to be held . |
| 4 | She needed to be the centre of attention and her clothes showed her love of display . |
| 5 | She was staring at me imploringly , unable to move the way she wanted , the way she needed to . |
| 6 | She wanted to , she really did , but she needed to be made to feel she could , or rather that she could n't not , that it was out of her hands , that she could n't help herself . |
| 7 | But the walls of her room seemed suddenly oppressive , and she needed to be somewhere less claustrophobic . |
| 8 | ‘ He was a great poet , ’ I said , as if she needed to be told . |
| 9 | She needed to be sick . |
| 10 | She rose quickly and lit the candles , all six of them which was wasteful , but she needed to be in the light for the shadows in the corners frightened her . |
| 11 | Frequently coming into the net , but solid as ever from the baseline when she needed to be , she reached her second Australian Open final in three years . |
| 12 | Limp and detached from her fast-shifting surroundings — maybe overwhelmed by those — she needed to be guided , almost carried along by Meh'Lindi for a while . |
| 13 | I had never been able to persuade her to accept any money for her kindness and tried to reciprocate by doing any small repairs she needed to her flat , and by supplying occasional tickets for the theatre , for the tennis at Wimbledon , and for the races at Epsom . |
| 14 | Nor to be reminded of their smouldering resentments against this girl of their of age who was so ‘ lady-like ’ and ‘ nose-in-the-air ’ so that they might feel that she needed to be brought down a peg or two . |
| 15 | She had her faults — she needed to be push-started and she had lost gears the way old people lose teeth — but it was difficult not to love her . |
| 16 | As she would do tomorrow , if she needed to , to realize her plans . |
| 17 | She was a clever old — Well , let's just say she was cleverer than Maurice thought , though not as clever as she needed to be . |
| 18 | ‘ Is this the kind of thing you want , old thing ? ’ he enquired kindly , obviously feeling that she needed to be humoured . |
| 19 | Just as before she had needed to stay inside the cottage , fearful that she would miss Johnny if he should come , now she needed to be away , out there where her world was still turning , and people laughed and played and did ordinary things . |
| 20 | She needed to be disenchanted too , from this shape in which she was held prisoner . |
| 21 | Just for a few minutes , she needed to be near to him . |
| 22 | She needed to be alone , and there was nowhere among all the tents and sideshows where she could hope to escape the milling crowd . |
| 23 | A few hours in Richard 's company was just the antidote she needed to Luke 's volatility . |
| 24 | She needed to be alone to sort out the battery of questions , to think . |
| 25 | Her grandmother sniffed and her mother promised to send in a note whenever she needed to be off PE . |
| 26 | She needed to be alone for this . |
| 27 | She needed to … |
| 28 | She needed to be on her own . |
| 29 | She needed to be caressed and he caressed her , massaging and pinching at the puckered rose-pink nipples , until the heat burst into searing flame and wildfire licked over her body . |
| 30 | She needed to be on her own . |