Example sentences of "[noun] he needed " in BNC.
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| 1 | His despondent letter to Thelwall was written immediately following an absence of ‘ a day or two ’ , during which , it seems likely , he walked westward into the Exmoor fringes above Porlock , the home territory of his maternal ancestors , and in a lonely farmhouse near Culbone Church sought the isolation he needed to complete Osorio . |
| 2 | It took Ray years to discover the mix of speedwork and mile repetitions he needed for improving his race times . |
| 3 | He felt sure he could sweet-talk Antonio and get the 25 per cent equity he needed to put the new deal to bed . |
| 4 | The 26-year-old University of Natal graduate , credited his god with giving him the concentration he needed for his marathon . |
| 5 | It was the only confirmation he needed . |
| 6 | It was the confirmation he needed . |
| 7 | He could then have discussed the matter more openly , and received some of the reassurance and guidance he needed . |
| 8 | But did it cut him off from the guidance he needed ? |
| 9 | Mozart may have sorted through hundreds of librettos discontentedly and only produced his masterpieces after finding a poet able to construct the librettos he needed , but , in his apprentice years , he had set the standard texts of the professional theatre hacks . |
| 10 | Then , as they came inside the final furlong , Piggott got the break he needed . |
| 11 | To convert the principle into practice he needed detailed instructions from the centre . |
| 12 | The pulling-back of 6th Armoured Brigade had given the Divisional Commander the force he needed to destroy the enemy . |
| 13 | No wonder he needed a four-poster … |
| 14 | In this work he needed to know that these numbers factorised uniquely into primes ( 3.7.13 ) just as do the ordinary integers . |
| 15 | To any cabbie in Victorian London , those were all the directions he needed . |
| 16 | But the extra oxygen he needed affected his eyes , leaving him nearly blind . |
| 17 | His desire to be always in absolute control made it impossible for him to seek the medical and psychological help he needed and he had no close friends to persuade him . |
| 18 | He received the help he needed and in the next three months showed his superb generalship by totally subduing the island . |
| 19 | Too short to give him the help he needed . |
| 20 | Failing to get from Hitler the assistance he needed , Franco signed a commercial agreement with the United Kingdom and Portugal on 24 July 1940 . |
| 21 | Whelan has played in only three North Region events and six pro-ams this year , spending the rest of the time working in his father 's restaurant and glassware gift shop to earn the £1,200 he needed to get to the School . |
| 22 | When I went to live in the attic , Jean-Claude still took it for granted that the wood he needed for the stove should be filched from the railway sidings . |
| 23 | Much as she might have wanted to help , Diana was in no position to give Charles the attention he needed . |
| 24 | The head explained to Mrs Singh that Balbinder was not making much progress and that because of class sizes he would be unlikely to receive the kind of attention he needed . |
| 25 | I gave him all the particulars he needed — my name , address , the hospital where I worked , and the number of my Austin Seven . |
| 26 | My Japanese friends wonder at my passion , because he is not very well known and not very successful , though when he visited Paris with his fellow sumotori he was at once called ‘ the Japanese Alain Delon ’ — to my mind , an insult to my hero , but for a while that kind of adulation seemed to give him a little of the confidence he needed , and on his return to Japan he delighted me by winning an unusually high number of contests . |
| 27 | Now Helen , loving and admiring him , had given him the confidence he needed to be happy . |
| 28 | After changing his name by deed poll to Captain Beany he needed a renewed passport to match his new identity . |
| 29 | Removed from her abominable parent , and cared for properly , she would give him the heir he needed . |
| 30 | Both of them treated the case as one in which there was an implied threat by the defendant to deprive the plaintiff 's clerk of his right to take extracts from the parish register for no charge ; and both appear to have concluded that , in the circumstances , although that threat was made before the plaintiff 's clerk obtained the extracts he needed , nevertheless it was causative of the payment which was therefore recoverable on the ground of compulsion . |