Example sentences of "needed do was " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I actually needed to do was somehow to disappear . |
| 2 | I would have to live on cheap or free food , so what I really needed to do was to go and see some nuns . |
| 3 | All he needed to do was to collect the votes of the majority of MAs who had left the University . |
| 4 | This is where we must challenge the idea that forgiveness is a costless thing ; that all God needed to do was forgive . |
| 5 | All the left needed to do was to ensure that the next Labour government was a real alternative , and not led by another tedious old right-winger like Callaghan , who had gone back to his farm blaming the lefties . |
| 6 | All that the French needed to do was take the crossroads at Quatre Bras . |
| 7 | When all they needed to do was lift up the phone and have a quiet word . |
| 8 | Really , what we needed to do was to read through make sure that it was covered adequately but on the other hand , if they 've come across something twice and not if i , if it was in brackets I did n't count it , did you do |
| 9 | ‘ But all I needed to do was look at the support I got from the club and the fans when we were at the bottom last season . |
| 10 | What they needed to do was to look in Milton 's Collected Poems or in an anthology such as The Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse , rather than expecting individual titles all to be listed separately in the catalogue . ) |
| 11 | ‘ We were told what you needed to do was to start drinking in the Groucho Club , where all the critics go . ’ |
| 12 | between a lot of parked cars and there was a , I was coming down the road and all I needed to do was to actually stop where I was cos there was enough room on his side of the road for him to come past the parked car and round me |