Example sentences of "[noun pl] he needed " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took Ray years to discover the mix of speedwork and mile repetitions he needed for improving his race times . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | To any cabbie in Victorian London , those were all the directions he needed . |
| 4 | I gave him all the particulars he needed — my name , address , the hospital where I worked , and the number of my Austin Seven . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This lack of the courtier 's innate instinct for self-preservation — a characteristic he shared with his father — did not endear him to the aristocracy , and probably lost him the appointments he needed . |
| 7 | For two years he needed massage several times a day and still goes for regular check-ups at hospital . |
| 8 | It took several weeks before the new trader was able to work out roughly the quantities he needed each morning to satisfy his customers ' needs , and still longer to realise that those needs would vary from day to day |
| 9 | Wanting Rudd to apply his mind to motor racing again , Chapman gave him his famous 27-page handwritten list of ‘ things he needed to know for F1 ’ . |
| 10 | He wrote out list upon list of all the things he needed , from cutlery to cucumber frames . |
| 11 | He drove slowly towards his area of London , running through in his mind all the things he needed to buy and do during this tree afternoon . |
| 12 | He only ever did things he needed to do , and someone as economical with their emotions as that was not good lifetime material . |
| 13 | There were more important things he needed to find out ; things only the Doctor could tell him . |
| 14 | The self-supporting peasant was transformed into a spender of money , for all the things he needed were now in the shops . |
| 15 | Indeed , the last straw as far as Coleman was concerned was when Hurley took a group of his Lebanese CIs , whose identities he needed to protect at all costs , to lunch down the street at a café full of officials from the Bulgarian Embassy . |
| 16 | Thurot 's first attempt to land in Ireland , near Londonderry , was a failure and one of his ships became separated and never rejoined him , leaving four to turn up next on the Isle of Islay off the coast of Argyll in western Scotland , where , with a courtesy rare among invaders , he paid for the provisions he needed . |
| 17 | Einstein learnt the mathematical techniques he needed from his friend Marcel Grossman over a number of years when they both lived in Zurich and regarded the techniques primarily as useful tools . |
| 18 | As the DEA was plainly out to get him , and had blocked all access to the files he needed to clear himself , the only avenue open to him was to work with Pan Am , in the common interest of getting at the truth , using his training and experience to piece together the best defence he could . |
| 19 | When the shops opened he had sent out two of his men to buy him a list of items he needed : a very large-scale map of the area north of London extending fifty miles in all directions , a matching sheet of clear plastic , map-pins , chinagraph pencils in different colours . |
| 20 | Also , some of the people on her list might no longer have the connections he needed . |
| 21 | The arms of his wheelchair were hung with all the accoutrements he needed ; a lighter , two packets of cigarettes and a little leather bandolier which held his supply of Kronenbourg bottles . |
| 22 | English economics provided him with the two antinomies he needed , proletariat and bourgeoisie , as the polarised , opposites of the dialectic . |
| 23 | Roles managed to get all the shots he needed in two sessions , hand-holding his Hasselblad . |
| 24 | A brilliant last bowl removed two of Gourlay 's woods from the head to give Corsie the three shots he needed to take the set 7-6 . |
| 25 | Corsie , however , produced a perfect running bowl to take out Gourlay 's two nearest and give him the three shots he needed to take the set . |
| 26 | He would go on to look at the banks and their debtors , and find all the symptoms he needed to confirm a diagnosis of monetary anorexia . |
| 27 | But Duke , from Portadown , slotted into second and stayed there to secure the points he needed to beat off the challenge of Tommy Reid , McMonagle and Chris Paul . |
| 28 | Money procured for Minton the kind of men he needed , but his inability to possess them left him with insatiable desire , to such an extent that his relentless pursuit of young men began to intrude into everything he did . |
| 29 | He hoped his barons would bring the men he needed . |
| 30 | When his wife died he began to look around for another ; someone who would give him the children he needed . |