Example sentences of "they needed [be] " in BNC.

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1 Consumers deprived of the information and advice they needed were quite simply at the mercy of every rogue in the marketplace .
2 ‘ She can be catty , I know that , but you made things far worse than they needed be , ’ Luke retorted .
3 All they needed was the proof , and when a photographer hired by a down-market Sunday newspaper caught the Princess of Wales emerging from her friend Kate Menzies 's mews house during the early hours of the morning with David Waterhouse , and fooling around in the quiet road , they thought they had it .
4 All they needed was water to reconstitute them and there was definitely going to be no shortage of that particular commodity .
5 ‘ They should feel angry that the help they needed was n't available . ’
6 All they needed was a lot of practice and some supervision and correcting , and occasionally putting back on the right track when they strayed .
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