Example sentences of "it needed be " in BNC.
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| 1 | All it needed was a bit of tumbleweed to make it seem more deserted than it really was and I used to just fight against that dissatisfaction . |
| 2 | Shareholders might wonder why the directors built up a holding of 700 properties when all it needed was another 20 properties of the investment calibre of Oldham 's . |
| 3 | All it needed was someone to go looking for the jack , find their hands curling round them and start asking why … |
| 4 | All it needed was a little glue . |
| 5 | subsequently after about ten flights , and porting over the books , and speaking to people who serviced them during the war years , they discovered that all it needed was a well-placed whack with a hammer on the trailing edge of the aileron . |
| 6 | All it needed was a touch of the spirit of ‘ Bordah ’ ! |
| 7 | All it needed was a good tug . |
| 8 | Insisting that all it needed was a little Lux , he put the painting on the floor and began scrubbing . |
| 9 | With a wry smile he thought to himself that all it needed was a few thousand square miles of northern forest such as might be found in Norway or Canada and they would look completely right . |
| 10 | All it needed was some heat . |
| 11 | The women were told it would soon be mended , but by the time it came for bed it still was n't repaired , although probably all it needed was a new fuse . |
| 12 | Their private parts were firmly jammed in the wringer and all it needed was for somebody to the rescue . |
| 13 | All it needed was for the envelope to be stuck down . |
| 14 | Little damage had been done , all it needed was for the cargo to be reassembled , but , while several tourists were rushing energetically around attempting to do this , the drivers of the carts had taken time off to chat . |
| 15 | ‘ As you may recall , I already had a fair grasp of Portuguese , so all it needed was a crash course and a month or two here to make me fluent , ’ Ashley said , wishing he was not so persistent . |
| 16 | so all it needed was the plug undoing |
| 17 | I would have thought myself that all it needed was going boomph in and turn it and get the other one in . |