Example sentences of "[pron] must [verb] been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Melanie of his must have been a right madam , thought Leonora when Penry went off to get himself a glass of whisky . |
| 2 | I sent the cheque back , saying that although it had been immensely good of them to bring me up , I must have been a great burden and was now a disappointment , so I would prefer them to keep this money as some repayment for all they had done . |
| 3 | ‘ For once , not Rosemary , though I 'm getting more and more desperate about not knowing what to do for the best , ’ he confessed , but went on to explain , ‘ I spent a lot of time yesterday in realising that I must have been a real wet blanket when Naylor announced your engagement on Saturday . ’ |
| 4 | I must have been a constant reminder of her , and he could n't bear it . ’ |
| 5 | I must have been the greatest bore ever , and it 's a wonder that those I inflicted my views upon did n't rebel . |
| 6 | If I found there was no coffee in the house I 'd shout and swear at her and I must have been an absolute pain to live with . |
| 7 | It has been plausibly argued that the cutting of the folds ( which is very shallow ) was done during a retouching of the colour ( something which must have been a regular operation ; on colour see below , p. 28 ) . |
| 8 | Uncle once set the leg of a bull in Sleetburn , which must have been a tricky job , and I well remember the occasion when one of our cows had a really bad calving and Uncle saw her through . |
| 9 | To support Wilfrid was also to engage in a protracted dispute which must have been a long-term embarrassment both to the Northumbrian king and the archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 10 | One of the craft was in a mighty hurry when he set Judas for Jesus at John vi.67 , as happened in 1609 ; and so was his descendant in 1653 when , at Corinthians vi.9 , he pronounced that ‘ the unrighteous shall inherit the kingdom of God ’ , which must have been a great comfort to a considerable number of citizens under the Commonwealth . |
| 11 | At one time , thinking of her childhood , which must have been a grey business , rather like a long , dull , cold Sunday , he had been furious with his father-in-law . |
| 12 | ‘ Ears of grain were called apples of gold , which must have been the first gold in the world while metallic gold was unknown … |
| 13 | Here and there they pick up and make use of the old common balks in the former open fields , which must have been the usual way of proceeding from one village to another in open-field country , but for the most part they are drawn straight across the old furlongs and strips regardless of all considerations but that of directness . |
| 14 | There are occasional references to fullers during the 13th and 14th centuries but theirs must have been a small scale operation compared to that encountered further downstream around Cirencester . |
| 15 | But this in itself must have been a difficult decision for the authorities : to dismiss her was to create a security risk and , as she had proved herself dishonest , to retain her was also a potential threat to Ultra . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , but you must have been a little girl once , Headmistress . |
| 17 | She must have been a hundred miles away , she realised , trying to get her thoughts together . |
| 18 | ‘ She must have been the only woman Paheri ever liked . |
| 19 | ‘ She must have been an extraordinary woman , ’ said Julia , trying to imagine living her life in a wheelchair and knowing that her attractive husband was falling in love with someone else . |
| 20 | She must have been an exceptional item , because Rich can hardly get the words out for trembling woooh noises and peculiar scatological asides . |
| 21 | Deposited on the runway , horribly close to the fast lane , we must have been an unusual sight for incoming international passengers , gazing at a three-horse traffic island . |
| 22 | There must 've been a little bit of snow |
| 23 | Similarly Fawn Hall , asked by North to alter memoranda to conceal his work for the contras , remembered feeling uneasy : ‘ but I believe in Colonel North , and I know that there must have been a good reason why he was asking me to do this , and I — I did as I was told . ’ |
| 24 | There must have been a good reason for the same method was also in use at other coach works . |
| 25 | There must have been a better breeze there . |
| 26 | There must have been a great fire . |
| 27 | • With Valentine 's day so near to the closing date , we were expecting hundreds of soppy cards , bouquets of flowers , bottles of champagne and heart-shaped chocolates to come flooding into the office — there must have been a postal strike . |
| 28 | There must have been a veritable orchard flourishing in her wake , which could account for the sudden urge to build an orangery among the nobbery . |
| 29 | There must have been a tacit appreciation among many potential benefactors at the end of the thirteenth century that there were already too many religious houses : whereas over seven hundred new houses had been founded in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , just over sixty followed in the next century and most of those were friaries . |
| 30 | There must have been a hundred of them — three flocks together — scrabbling over the stones , stretching out their necks and bleating . |