They all understood English really well, until something needed repairing or cleaning.

It would need repairing, and a master to do it.

Do you mean it's going to need repairing and redecorating?

He climbed some steps that badly needed repairing and knocked on the door of number forty-three.

"I was looking for places that needed repairing," protested Brent.

There were four or five shotholes in the topsails: nothing that needed repairing.

The boilerhouse bridge needed repairing before it pitched us all into the river.

There is just so much that needs repairing here that we hardly know where to start.

We all wondered why, but he told somebody it needed repairing.

Soon there was the noise of a car out in the hall - one that needed repairing by the sound of it!