Example sentences of "[pers pn] needed [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I needed to be someone else , someone new . |
| 2 | I needed to be reassured that I had reached a hospitable culture … |
| 3 | I 'd promised my mother I 'd buy her some new central-heating , and the only time it could be fitted was the next week , so I needed to be home for Monday when the workmen came round . |
| 4 | ‘ People in football will understand — Lennie Lawrence told me I needed to be superhuman to perform in that atmosphere . |
| 5 | I needed to when I was a teenager . |
| 6 | When I came off , I felt I needed to sort of keep in touch , sort of speaking to people that know what 's going on and know what 's going on in ex-users ' heads , y'know . |
| 7 | In embarking on this journey , I 'd put myself into store again and set off ; like the other women I needed safety , I needed to be taken care of , to take care of myself and now to take care of this journey . |
| 8 | From the tarn , I followed my nose down to a cairn that stands on the shoulder above Deepdale Side where the view down Deepdale into Dentdale was so good that I sat and looked at it for a good half-hour until the thought that I needed to be home by late afternoon pushed me on down to the green lane of the old Craven Way . |
| 9 | I needed to , for Jean-Claude remembered it word for word . |
| 10 | I needed to be alone . |
| 11 | if i I 'll just remember the symbol I wo n't even remember the symbols but I 'll just know that I can work it out if I needed to . |
| 12 | I knew that I would probably lose the case if I did , and lose everything , but for my own personal esteem I needed to actually make that stand . ’ |
| 13 | But I needed to be sure that you had not forgotten your homesite . |
| 14 | After a few minutes I managed to get to my knees and use a pee-bottle , although after sweating so much , I ca n't imagine I needed to . |
| 15 | If I needed to . |
| 16 | ‘ Not as sharp as I needed to be , though , ’ she said . |
| 17 | But it was because I needed other women , and I needed to be truthful about it . |
| 18 | ‘ I needed to be told , ’ he conceded drily , facing her across the coffee-table . |
| 19 | ‘ I had n't realised that I needed to be a hypochondriac to qualify for your — affections . ’ |
| 20 | I needed to be nobody , to find out how ordinary people lived . |
| 21 | I worked in the factory and said it was for fun ; but it was n't — I did it because I needed to . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ When I got here , ’ he said expressionlessly , ‘ I realised I needed to be in love with more than just a city . |
| 23 | He played some good stuff and I did n't raise my game when I needed to , ’ added Wilkinson . |
| 24 | I was , in Robert Pirsig 's immortal phrase , caught in a gumption trap , expending more and more energy in a blind alley of endeavour from which I needed to quietly reverse in temporary resignation . |
| 25 | yeah but having said that erm that was something I wanted to ask you about because I mean both , both of them might need some money for higher education so , whilst I 'd like to put that sum money on one side , I 'd also possibly , you know if the need arose , would like to use it myself if I needed to for , for higher education . |
| 26 | I needed to . |
| 27 | He is just what I needed for my tennis and for my life . ’ |
| 28 | As father said at the beginning of gruelling sessions in the vacs , the techniques I needed for the next few years — apart from those concerned with sport — dealt not so much with manual skills but with communication , both written and oral . |
| 29 | I 'd taken a box of medication I was on at the time — drops I needed for my eyes , my asthma inhalant and things like that . |
| 30 | Also asked him for report which I needed for Statutory Review . |