Example sentences of "and he needed " in BNC.

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1 For Warren , Madonna was insurance that Dick Tracy would be a hit and he needed a hit after Ishtar .
2 This had to be done and he needed to be unconscious .
3 He was not even wearing a watch and he needed a shave .
4 And he needed a lor ra , lor ra votes .
5 She was the only one to challenge the Headmaster 's mysterious ways , believing the strain of being in charge of the school was getting to him and he needed a rest .
6 Trent reached the point which he had marked but now the current was that much stronger and he needed to be at the bridge .
7 I saw this little man who looked familiar : it was Chi Chi Rodriguez and he needed a caddie .
8 But instead he told whomsoever it might concern that he was Alan Bleath , a researcher employed by the above company and he needed to buy 10 grams of thallium for research purposes .
9 The Lost Pandas were no more and he needed a name for a group he was forming with Keith Gregory .
10 Caring for him became an almost full-time job because he could do so little for himself ; and it was difficult for Mary and Jim to go out together , especially as her father grew less able to get around , and he needed a great deal of help at home .
11 It seems that Teller remained an inexhaustible source of ideas but , as with Winston Churchill , ‘ nine out of ten of them were useless and he needed men with more judgement , even if less gifted to select the tenth idea which was often a stroke of genius ’ .
12 whom he could trust , and he needed my youth to support him at this difficult time and so , like a fool , I had believed him and flown
13 ‘ I loved my brother and he needed me , and you must care for people , ’ she insisted .
14 There was a skylight in the attic but the sloping roof was higher than he had anticipated and he needed something to stand on .
15 He could n't use his own car because they were going to be way out of radio range , and he needed the car telephone with the scrambler attachment .
16 The forces that had called forth a great preacher like Griffith were passing and he needed to be taken out of the limelight .
17 It would take his coach at least two hours to reach Brussels , and he needed a good hour to change into the scarlet and gold finery of a British major-general .
18 In fact , Constantine 's attitude towards Christianity seems to have been primarily a matter of expediency , for Christians by then were numerous in the Empire and he needed all the support he could muster against Maxentius , his rival for the imperial throne .
19 On 28 February Sjahrir resigned from the premiership : but Sukarno and he needed each other , even if they suspected each other : on 2 March he was back as Premier .
20 A year later , casting opened for Wayne 's World , and he needed to find a villain who could not be grotesque , but had to be grand .
21 Its line was quite clear and he needed only to veer a little into it and he felt enormous uplift under his wings and a lightness and power unlike anything he had felt in the Park .
22 He 'd got chilled to the marrow last night and he needed a drop of something to keep out the cold . ’
23 It was unfair and wrong that life could be doing this to her ; she needed her son and he needed to be here .
24 His face was pitted and he needed a shave .
25 He was less than five minutes from the road , and he needed another five to get over the wall .
26 Somewhere in the back of his mind was the knowledge that Legion wanted the woman kept alive , but the sight of Kreig 's ears had given Ardamal a thirst , and he needed to slake it .
27 He looked very thin and he needed a new coat .
28 And he needed all the encouragement he could get , for the threats had started again .
29 It was one o'clock , and he needed his lunch .
30 He had four restaurants and he needed an organiser .
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