Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] need to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I so need to be walking up the stairs and pushing open the studio door , and seeing him at his bench , looking over his shoulder at me , as if he 's not in the least interested to see who it is . |
| 2 | I just need to … could we be alone , please ? ’ |
| 3 | I just needed to be told to change my ways . ’ |
| 4 | I desperately needed to be everyone 's ‘ perfect person ’ — a perfect daughter , sister , girlfriend and friend . |
| 5 | I hardly need to be too soul-searching to understand my reasonable response . |
| 6 | I also need to be called Alain . |
| 7 | I also needed to be knowledgeable about the procedures , likely outcomes and prognosis so that I could give full and accurate explanations to Mrs Allen . |
| 8 | ‘ Look , Laura , I really need to be clear about one or two things before I can see my way forward . ’ |
| 9 | Now what you want to do in the privacy of your own home in terms of art is one thing , but if I 'm using public money I really need to be able to justify it . |
| 10 | To be honest , at the time I really needed to be dropped but there was no-one else at the club ready to take over . |
| 11 | So , I mean , they was trying to come up one day so I could watch the telly and I really needed to . |
| 12 | ‘ Please take notice that I sometimes need to be the real me ’ , is what she seems to be really saying through the way she 's portrayed herself . ’ |
| 13 | I think perhaps that I actually needed to be able to think the worst of you , however personally unpalatable that worst was to me , as some sort of a defence , so that I could despise you even if it meant despising myself as well . |
| 14 | I suppose it amuses me and I never needed to be amused before , not when he was here to do it . |
| 15 | It seemed a long time since Dana 's phone call had brought Roman Wyatt into her life and she badly needed to be by herself to think about the turmoil he had caused in her ordered existence . |
| 16 | When you are helping them , you obviously need to be on your guard , and treat them with sensitivity and caution . |
| 17 | They 're looking at Wilson 's character , which was quite a , a peculiar one , in both senses of the word , and not just peculiar in the sense of , of , you obviously need to him a peculiar sense of kind of funny , funny peculiar . |
| 18 | You only need to one file combine , that 's one advantage , instead of three , so it 's about three times quicker . |
| 19 | ( You do not need to know much about the topic to do this ; you only need to be able to identify what you would need to know . ) |
| 20 | you only need to be a nursery nurse |
| 21 | You do not have to be clever , or to know all the right psychological approaches ; you just need to be kind , and to care , to become a sanity-saving safety-valve in someone else 's life . |
| 22 | Well I would have thought so but really erm I think you just need to sort of |
| 23 | Yeah , no I think you just need to be frank with him and you know say you 're happy about the finger , fine , but just , you know , |
| 24 | Even if you 've got a darker complexion , or tan easily , you still need to be careful in the sun . |
| 25 | You still need to be prepared to cope with crises arising in the years to come . |
| 26 | ‘ These are very tax-efficient , especially for higher-rate taxpayers , but you still need to be careful about where your money is going . |
| 27 | Ten-year-old Trevor Kachel , of Belgrave Road , said : ‘ I like boxing because it means I can defend yourself if you ever needed to . |
| 28 | You also need to be aware of certain precautions that should be taken in the handling , preparing and storing of food . |
| 29 | You also need to be aware of certain precautions that should be taken in the handling , preparing and storing of food . |
| 30 | You also need to be inventive and prepared to look to untried and untested ways to earn money or to make it work for you . |