Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] need [adv] be " in BNC.

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1 What I needed now was a really violent interlude to liven up the otherwise turgid plot .
2 What I need now is a drink ! ’
3 ‘ The workers in our group already have lots of knitting to do what I need now is another group of volunteers , ’ Moira said .
4 She was shocked and upset and what she needed most was to be allowed to rest , alone .
5 It 's what you need anyway is n't it ?
6 What you need here is a cat .
7 " What you need now is someone in the basement who might just leave a window open for you … "
8 What we needed desperately was more good information to put our resources to the best use .
9 Setting this show and its problems aside , what we need generally is some fresh thinking and some fresh air .
10 What we need then is faith and practice .
11 We 've got information coming out of our ears and what we need now is some way to make sense of it .
12 What we need now is a tomato antidote or at least a little of the restraint implicit in the observation made in a French book of Dissertations Gastronomiques ( 1928 ) by Ernest Verdier , owner of the Maison Dorée , a restaurant celebrated in the Paris of the Belle Epoque .
13 What we need now is information , ’ he told her , leaning forward across the desk to make his point .
14 Finally Helen , pushing back a plate that still had half a bready sausage on it , said-'So what we need now is a plan of campaign then , is n't it ? ’
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