Example sentences of "he do [not/n't] need [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not need to see his hands in order to roll himself a cigarette . |
| 2 | He did not need to consult anyone about expenditure on funerals as these were routine occasions . |
| 3 | When at the top he was disappointed to find no flag , but with some cautious experimentation discovered that he did not need to hold on to the pole — he could float . |
| 4 | But he did not need to do so ; and he could make men pay heavily for the privilege of the regrant , as James V certainly did . |
| 5 | He did not need to turn to Posidonius for his cheap ethnography — assuming , what is by no means certain , that about 69 B.C. Posidonius ' history had already been published . |
| 6 | But mostly he did not need to talk at a bunfight , people came up and talked to him , and he would nod his head and smile benevolently and say happily , Yes , Yes , Yes . |
| 7 | The Chancellor might be forced to raise rates again if sterling took a nosedive , but he did not need to sit with his finger on the trigger . |
| 8 | Kopyion had tried to persuade him that he did not need to come to the hoverport . |
| 9 | He did not need to pay for it . |
| 10 | He did not need to read it . |
| 11 | He did not need to look at the single shelf of books to know they would have titles like A Pilot 's War Memoirs or Regiments of the Burma Campaign . |
| 12 | He did not need to raise his voice or even explain that this was his final word on the matter . |
| 13 | Shultz , for all his opposition to the Iran operation , merely told Poindexter not to inform him of details he did not need to know ; and the admiral , needing no encouragement to hold things close , took that line with other members of the cabinet . |
| 14 | He did not need to know . |
| 15 | The point was that the journalist 's investigative purpose was sufficiently served by the declaration , and that he did not need to know ( and had no sufficient interest in knowing ) the identities of the justices who had heard the particular case . |
| 16 | God in no way needs the world and He did not need to make it : creation is the expression of His pure outgoing love and indeed traditional Christian teaching has held that one day this present world will come to an end but God will still be the same God . |
| 17 | To do this he did not need to make any apparently arbitrary appeal to particular revelation or received authority . |
| 18 | He always wore a gown , he beat boys whenever he thought it necessary , he did not need to assert that his was the best school in Wales , if not Britain . |
| 19 | This owed something to the thoroughness with which Gloucester outmanoeuvred the opposition , which meant that he did not need to hunt for extra support . |
| 20 | This owed something to the thoroughness with which Gloucester outmanoeuvred the opposition , which meant that he did not need to hunt for extra support . |
| 21 | His fingers came up and snapped once again and he did n't need to say any more . |
| 22 | ‘ Dusty was such a wonderful kicker that he did n't need to employ it . |
| 23 | ‘ My first impression of Mellor was that he did n't need to put his hand in his pocket . |
| 24 | He added : ‘ The first impression from him was he did n't need to put his hand in his pocket to pay any money right from the first evening . ’ |
| 25 | Our guide Sam gave us very clear instructions — he did n't need to emphasise how important it was for us to do exactly as he said . |
| 26 | He did n't need to ask what his sergeant was referring to . |
| 27 | He did n't need to ask her if it was she who had told him . |
| 28 | Surely he did n't need to ask . |
| 29 | Comparing his grey frozen features with the carved stone angel beside the lectern , looking at the long lit-up scar , and the furrowed forehead as he wrestled with the difficult words , Daisy thought he did n't need to humble or prove himself any more . |
| 30 | But he did n't need to give it to anyone else — no one else was flawed in the way Denis was , no one else 's loyalty gave grounds for doubt and therefore for the most unsavoury of tests . |