Example sentences of "[pers pn] need " in BNC.
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| 1 | I need n't have worried . |
| 2 | I need not even mention the agitation surrounding race and racialism and immigration in the unique circumstances of the last twenty years in the United Kingdom . |
| 3 | I need not tell you how topical this subject is . |
| 4 | Professor Ruiperez told me I need not start my classes until I was quite recovered , and the women in the office and the library spoke friendly words to me for the first time . |
| 5 | I need not have worried . |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't see how I can unless I manage to shift one way or the other , and I need both hands for that . |
| 7 | I need n't even name names . |
| 8 | All I need do was agree to a list of people who had already been named , so I would n't be hurting anyone . |
| 9 | ‘ Having parted with my dear flock ’ , he says , ‘ I need not say without mutual sense and tears , I left Mr. Baldwin to live privately among them and oversee them in my stead , and visit them from home to home ; advising them , notwithstanding all the injuries they had received and all the failings of the ministers that preached to them and the defects of the present way of worship , that yet they should keep to the public assemblies and make use of such helps as might be had in public , together with this private help … ‘ ( i.e. r.Baldwin ) . |
| 10 | Mr. Miller , of whom I must always retain the highest sense , both for the Knowledge I have received from his Labours , and more particularly that Friendship and Communicativeness with which he always treated me , was blessed with a more favourable Situation in the progress of his Experiments , by enjoying the kind Influence of the Sun ( the parent of Vegetation ) in so high a Degree as to have the Vine in full ripeness on the natural Wall , without the assistance of Art ; and could we all experience the same Felicity , I need not have communicated my Observations or my Countrymen wanted an other Tutor … |
| 11 | I think now that I need not have been so prim and stand-offish , but I was afraid to wound him further by giving him what might possibly be taken for false ‘ encouragement ’ . |
| 12 | I need n't tell you how well we all like your husband . |
| 13 | She sobbing answers , ‘ Sure , I need not come |
| 14 | But I need n't worry about it yet , I 'm quite sure . ’ |
| 15 | I need not have worried , however , for the plot was rapidly unfolding and we were being drawn into the action . |
| 16 | I need not pursue these issues further here , however , as the results already cited are enough to establish that , given appropriate circumstances , verbal pre-training can influence performance on a recognition task just as it can on a motor task involving discrimination among the pre-trained stimuli . |
| 17 | I need n't have worried too much because Seve was in complete control on the first round . |
| 18 | ‘ Mummy said I need n't bring it back , as it was old and the twigs were coming out of it . ’ |
| 19 | Looking back , I need not have turned my nose up with such scorn when any of them approached me , as I 'm sure they did need some friendly contacts , but if one showed any signs of friendliness , they interpreted this as an invitation to attach themselves to you for the rest of the day , and probably the night too . |
| 20 | I need say no more : Schorr says it all far better . |
| 21 | I need n't have worried about him being too delicate to accept my offer . |
| 22 | I need n't be frightened of the mole-woman : she 'd be too busy making beds and totting up last night 's proceeds to wonder whether I was a truant from a Youth Custody Centre or a prostitute on an overnight break . |
| 23 | I could put in another coin , or I need n't . |
| 24 | So I promised I 'd never hit anyone again if I need n't go back to Dr Pseud , and they said yes . |
| 25 | It even knew which land was mine so I need n't even have guided it there . |
| 26 | I went back to the dining car to find Oliver and Cathy laying the tables for dinner , and I helped them automatically , although they said I need n't . |
| 27 | I need add little recommendation to some of the books in my own library . |
| 28 | I need not go on because I know this will be familiar to all of us . |
| 29 | I need not have worried , thought Lee . |
| 30 | I need not have worried . |