Example sentences of "he needed was " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that what he needed was more contact with ordinary people . |
| 2 | He cast Nicholson in the lead role and all he needed was a female . |
| 3 | What he needed was a bit of luck on the roll . |
| 4 | He placed an old towel on the bathroom floor so that it would not get wet and he ensured that everything he needed was within reach so that he did not have to move from the spot and so drip water everywhere . |
| 5 | Now , the last thing he needed was sleep . |
| 6 | All he needed was a bow or a lyre . |
| 7 | Hunt knew he had the faster car ; what he needed was the opportunity . |
| 8 | All he needed was the go-ahead . |
| 9 | All he needed was the money and support and he could produce it for Argentina using local materials . |
| 10 | What he needed was someone to get him by the scruff of the neck , tell him a few home truths and offer emotional stability . |
| 11 | What he thought he needed was someone with the public fame to take over the leadership and to hold a candle to the great names of Lloyd George , Austen Chamberlain , Churchill , Birkenhead and Balfour . |
| 12 | Now much of the rest of the stone of the building also dates from the medieval period but in fact in the nineteenth century the building er was very popular as a church and the vicar at the time decided that what he needed was more space and so they knocked down virtually the whole building apart from the tower and the east erm erm window and rebuilt it to put in the er gallery at the level that we 're standing here . |
| 13 | All he needed was Richard Branson 's money . |
| 14 | The allegiance he needed was now to hand . |
| 15 | It might be the name of a character ( there was one already he was sure sounded familiar ; it was one of his bits of Evidence ) , it might be the description of a place or a sequence of events … all he needed was that Key . |
| 16 | She guessed what he needed was information , then money . |
| 17 | A commercial bank had turned down his application for a loan because he could not provide collateral and besides , the money he needed was ‘ too small ’ . |
| 18 | And as she worked beside Silas one question hammered to demand an answer — the question of how she could have lost control of her own emotions when she 'd known that all he needed was time to sort out his own feelings for Doreen . |
| 19 | The last thing he needed was a lecture from a criminal . |
| 20 | Lothar believed that all he needed was time . |
| 21 | The support he needed was n't somebody standing next to him . ’ |
| 22 | What he needed was a lever . |
| 23 | What he needed was about fifty nomes . |
| 24 | For his second , a shot of 190 yards , all he needed was a 7-iron . |
| 25 | What he needed was to break down and howl like a child , and it was the effort not to do so that was tearing at him . |
| 26 | All he needed was a sweeping black cloak … |
| 27 | He saw the knowledge in her face that he was already chairman — all he needed was the official confirmation . |
| 28 | McLean 's attempt to impersonate a tic-tac man apart — all he needed was a pair of white gloves — the game offered little in the way of entertainment , which was particularly disappointing when the outcome meant so much to both sides as far as their hopes of finishing fourth in the Premier Division was concerned . |
| 29 | That Bingham-Jones boy had been a nuisance all day ; he was a spoiled brat ; and what he needed was a good smacking . |