Example sentences of "he [verb] not need " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He did not need words to join in this act , he could use the words of the prayer book or his own words , but he needed no words at all . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He did not need Albert to pay his fare on the Irish packet for , at last , he was an independent man , earning his own living . |
| 6 | He did not need to pay for it . |
| 7 | He did not need to raise his voice or even explain that this was his final word on the matter . |
| 8 | Walking well that day , he did not need a stick . |
| 9 | He did not need a stick at this time , for he was feeling better than usual , and his skin would have passed for normal except for some roughness here and there easily attributable to the chafing of clothes or to taking too many baths in hard water without the benefit of bottled body oils sold by any chemist worth the name . |
| 10 | He did not need to read it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He did not need to consult anyone about expenditure on funerals as these were routine occasions . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He bought a pen , which he did not need , in a small general store , and as he was leaving stepped aside to let Murray pass . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The doctors diagnosed that he had probably had a left-sided embolic stroke , and decided that he did not need surgery , so he was treated on the medical ward , where he remained for about seven months . |
| 17 | He did not need to . |
| 18 | He did not need to know . |
| 19 | He decided to wait no longer for his father 's permission ( which technically he did not need , being over 21 ) . |
| 20 | However , he did not need hospital treatment . |
| 21 | As scientist he adopted a certain method of explaining things ; as philosopher he tried to go one step further , he tried to justify his scientific methodology with arguments intended to prove that the things he did not need in his explanations — objective colours , sounds , and so on — did not exist . |
| 22 | Which was why Blackbeard accepted directives from him , even if he felt that he did not need them . |
| 23 | To do this he did not need to make any apparently arbitrary appeal to particular revelation or received authority . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This owed something to the thoroughness with which Gloucester outmanoeuvred the opposition , which meant that he did not need to hunt for extra support . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He did not need to see his hands in order to roll himself a cigarette . |
| 28 | He was inclined to believe he had been looking for an excuse to ring her , which was foolish because he did not need an excuse . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Remembering the wig which now he did not need , he pushed open the door and entered the antechamber which served as a reception area and office . |