Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] needed " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was potentially a useful ally and one with whom Edward needed to keep on good terms , if only because of his claim to the French throne ; but he proved unreliable and the expedition to Normandy was aborted when he suddenly came to terms with John II . |
| 2 | During the past seven years I 've worn fabric and plastic boots so my feet needed some encouragement to weather leather again . |
| 3 | But my frustration needed some channel . |
| 4 | Which is why , when my mother needed help with regard to me , she naturally contacted Naylor . ’ |
| 5 | I was always running up against her and being told that I had a shoelace undone , or my buttons needed polishing , or my hair was touching my collar , Airwoman ! |
| 6 | But the link with Aranyos through her sister needed explaining . |
| 7 | She had failed to spread light and warmth to do what her sister needed , and she must put aside her own terrors , and her own interest , and help her sister towards her heart 's desires . |
| 8 | She felt somehow that her sister needed it , for it seemed only too probable that if Rupert was interested in any woman it was in Ianthe . |
| 9 | The authorities took no immediate action to implement the arrest warrants , and Attorney General Carlos Gustavo Arrieta stated on May 22 that the Constitution and the law could not be used as " instruments to promote retaliations which neither society nor its institutions needed " . |
| 10 | Her hair needed washing and her legwarmers were in concertinas round her ankles . |
| 11 | They were just what their case needed , and for a few years these texts became the foundation of the Canterbury case . |
| 12 | AN IMPOVERISHED African country ( the name changes according to where you hear the story ) decided that its agriculture needed a shot in the arm . |
| 13 | ‘ You mean Hereward might have known something which Dersingham needed to keep quiet about ? ’ |
| 14 | But her self-esteem needed the prop of that little white lie . |
| 15 | British trolleybuses followed the tram to the scrapyard when their equipment needed renewing . |
| 16 | The weather had changed abruptly from unseasonably hot to unusually chilly , and most of her shopping needed to be done outdoors in Chapel market . |
| 17 | If her parents needed her to be looked after , she would be off there again later ; or she would go there in the evenings to read a book to her grandfather , or play games with him , or listen to one of the old pair storytelling . |
| 18 | They had been children together at the village school in the ‘ fifties , staying at home whenever their parents needed them , finishing with the whole business of education at twelve when a wage might be earned . |
| 19 | Picking up the iron , she kept her attention very firmly on her task as though ironing the collar of her blouse needed every bit of her concentration . |
| 20 | However , the coalition was then split again , over telecommunications contracts signed unilaterally by the ( Flemish ) Posts and Telecommunications Minister Marcel Colla ( which would have benefited Flemish companies ) , and over the allocation of television licence fees to the regions ( which Wallonia needed to help pay teachers ' wages — see also p. 38465 ) . |
| 21 | She disliked Milan 's climate and saw no reason why she should spend all her time in that city merely because her husband needed to be there for business . |
| 22 | After his return to England , he explained to Dorothy Pound that her husband needed somehow to be calmed down . |
| 23 | She had always accepted the unwritten law of the pop jungle — all publicity is good publicity — and no matter what the excuses , she needed the headlines as much as their writers needed her . |
| 24 | For example , because many farming families were able to afford sewing machines , the women in these families began to make all the clothes their families needed , thus increasing their already heavy work load but at the same time putting the Darzi or tailor-caste workers out of employment . |
| 25 | ‘ It is exactly the sort of vital encouragement which owners needed at this very difficult time . ’ |
| 26 | They questioned him about his journey , about Kinghorn and Queen Yolande , until the Prior intervened , pointing out that their visitor needed to relax . |
| 27 | These new techniques brought about an increase in the things which people needed to control for production , especially land , herds , tools , and even the slaves who became of importance at this stage . |
| 28 | Sensing that her aunt needed to talk , Constance poured more sherry . |
| 29 | Established corn mills often had first claim to the use of watercourses , but their machinery needed modernising to improve efficiency . |
| 30 | As my friend say , we did provide them facilities like the Port of Kuwait for the incoming foodstuff and material which Iraqui needed came through our ports and through our roads to their erm to Bahrain to Baghdad . |