Example sentences of "he needed know " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | He needed to know how to play it when the abdominal pains got started . |
| 3 | Green refused his help but Laurent had discovered all he needed to know . |
| 4 | There was so much more he needed to know … |
| 5 | At a certain time he would drive past that house , as he did every second day , and the position of his driver 's window , fully up , half-lowered or fully down , would convey to the watcher the thing he needed to know . |
| 6 | He needed to know both the size of the total community for which he was responsible and the strength of the army he would soon have to deploy ( see also Num. 2:32–34 ; 26:1–4 , 63–65 ) . |
| 7 | A full corona might tell him far more than he needed to know — so much that he would end up by knowing nothing precise at all . |
| 8 | She knew that he was finding out from her what he needed to know testing her ; and that he must know surely that she allowed this , understood that it was happening . |
| 9 | In this work he needed to know that these numbers factorised uniquely into primes ( 3.7.13 ) just as do the ordinary integers . |
| 10 | He needed to know more about their surroundings . |
| 11 | ‘ Just wine and beer now , ’ he said , as if that told Pascoe all he needed to know about Maddox 's state of health . |
| 12 | Besides which , she reminded herself , he had chosen to put her in charge of his new London branch and , naturally , he needed to know if she was single-minded about her future job . |
| 13 | She had flattered his self-esteem , protected him from the minor irritations of life , preserved his privacy with maternal pugnacity , had ensured , with infinite tact , that he knew all he needed to know about what was going on in his Laboratory . |
| 14 | On the other hand , he needed to know what the man was up to . |
| 15 | Wycliffe was not usually so curt with the press , but he was at a stage in the case when he wanted to be left alone to mull over what he knew and to decide what more he needed to know . |
| 16 | Above all he knew little more about Matthew Glynn than might reasonably appear in his obituary , but he needed to know the man well enough to see him going about his daily life against the background of his home and shop and in the context of his family , friends , and acquaintances . |
| 17 | It occurred to Wycliffe with a sense of surprise that of the three brothers he had spoken only to one ; he had never seen either Matthew or Alfred in life , yet he needed to know them . |
| 18 | ‘ He needed to know , ’ he replied coolly . |
| 19 | Now he had a farm to run he needed to know something of farm bookkeeping . |
| 20 | What he needed to know now was what kind of murderers they were . |
| 21 | I had that flinty look in my eyes that told Ed all he needed to know . |
| 22 | She was well and with child ; that was all he needed to know . |
| 23 | He realised too that he needed to know about both . |