Example sentences of "needed [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also the case that the conversion of the population to the market philosophy needed direction on a massive scale . |
| 2 | Moran began to see how little Maggie had to do in the house and that she needed money for dances and clothes now . |
| 3 | When [ in 1990 ] the Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center and its director were indicted in the Mapplethorpe case and needed money for their defence , we raised about $50,000 for them in about two days . |
| 4 | ‘ Dear Batty , I needed money for booze so all I did was rip off a few thousand cup final tickets supposed to be for our lot and flog 'em to some scum supporters . |
| 5 | We needed money for glue , we went vandalising property . |
| 6 | To establish his credibility against the Scots , in the years from 1313 to 1316 especially , the king needed money on a considerable scale . |
| 7 | Unlike the BBC , which gleaned income from license money , ITV needed money from advertising , and tempting advertisers meant guaranteeing them ratings . |
| 8 | For the second lesson , I thought that the class needed experience at working at a problem systematically . |
| 9 | An admirer of Origen , Eusebius probably thought he was facing a repetition of the situation of eighty years previously when a learned theologian harassed by a bishop of Alexandria needed support from his church . |
| 10 | In a sense they , they were back now in , in the situation that they , they needed support from the peasantry quickly and surely the way to do that was to offer them land , to give them land reform because rent reduction interest ra interest rate reduction is not enough . |
| 11 | If the Labour Party was to recover intellectually from the collapse of MacDonald 's " biological gradualism " and to build its local organisation it needed support from radical intellectuals and from the youth . |
| 12 | The crossbow , most useful in defence when the crossbowman , who needed protection for the time required to wind up his weapon , could hide himself behind a wall , was an elitist weapon , most effective in the hands of Gascons , who fought in Wales for Edward I , and of Genoese , a large contingent of whom fought on the French side at Crécy . |
| 13 | Passing sentence , Mr Justice Leonard told Kelly , the public needed protection from him . |
| 14 | The capitalist system needed investment of private capital to make it grow . |
| 15 | Then he left her side , cantering to where some of the party needed guidance in the right direction . |
| 16 | After promotion we needed someonone with a bit more class . |
| 17 | One company in particular felt that the appropriate hardware was in position for a total online information system , but the company needed assistance in setting up the system . |
| 18 | He needed help for all activities , such as getting in and out of bed or the bath . |
| 19 | And I needed help with my work . |
| 20 | When the Ashleys needed help with construction work he could borrow farm tractors for them . |
| 21 | Which is why , when my mother needed help with regard to me , she naturally contacted Naylor . ’ |
| 22 | He said I should call if I needed help on anything . |
| 23 | Thereafter , the Lord Chancellor became responsible for the Council on Tribunals , appointing its chairman and members , staffing it , and sticking up for it when it needed help against recalcitrant departments . |
| 24 | The stoma care nurse arranged that she would visit Mr Reynolds when he had been home 48 hours but gave him her telephone number in case he needed help before then . |
| 25 | He broached the idea of bringing Anthony to his mother 's next party , hinting his son needed help in getting a girlfriend , too . |
| 26 | We decided he needed help in slimming — and a new , up-to-date outfit . |
| 27 | He also said Mr Reid himself would often grope another male resident who needed help in pulling on his trousers . |
| 28 | Clusters have been designed in response to requests from secondary schools , which felt they needed help in guiding students to make coherent choices from the National Certificate catalogue . |
| 29 | He did it in the classic manner , by pitching the ball well up and bowling very , very quickly , and the fact that he needed help from his colleagues for only two of those wickets shows just how accurate he was . |
| 30 | I needed help from outside . |