Example sentences of "it need not [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To explain a social phenomenon is therefore to capture its uniqueness and show why it happened when it need not have done . |
| 2 | The winner 's benefit from responding appropriately to such a signal is that it does not risk injury by escalating the conflict into a real fight when it need not have done so . |
| 3 | ‘ It need not have done , ’ Rose argued . |
| 4 | THE family of a man shot by police at the end of a 47-hour siege claimed last night it need not have finished in bloodshed . |
| 5 | When Gandalf tells Frodo about the Ring , Frodo replies ‘ I wish it need not have happened in my time ’ , but Gandalf reproves him : ‘ So do I … and so do all who live to see such times . |
| 6 | It need not have happened . |
| 7 | It need not have had such fears . |