Example sentences of "[pers pn] needed was [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Derek had another inspiration : what I needed was fresh air .
2 She was extremely wet and cold and the very last thing she needed was this man 's mockery .
3 Here , all we needed was enough food , and people to watch for enemies .
4 All it needed was some heat .
5 It might be the name of a character ( there was one already he was sure sounded familiar ; it was one of his bits of Evidence ) , it might be the description of a place or a sequence of events … all he needed was that Key .
6 He said that what he needed was more contact with ordinary people .
7 Now much of the rest of the stone of the building also dates from the medieval period but in fact in the nineteenth century the building er was very popular as a church and the vicar at the time decided that what he needed was more space and so they knocked down virtually the whole building apart from the tower and the east erm erm window and rebuilt it to put in the er gallery at the level that we 're standing here .
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