Example sentences of "[pers pn] must have 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , but you must have been a little girl once , Headmistress . |
| 9 | She must have been a hundred miles away , she realised , trying to get her thoughts together . |
| 10 | ‘ She must have been the only woman Paheri ever liked . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | She must have been an exceptional item , because Rich can hardly get the words out for trembling woooh noises and peculiar scatological asides . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They must have been a bloody nuisance . |
| 15 | They must have been the same year , for their birthdays were only two months apart . |
| 16 | He must have been a strong contender for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar but then again , the history of the academy awards is littered with the words ‘ if only … ’ |
| 17 | This tall and handsome man , not so many years older than himself — he must have been a mere boy when McAllister was conceived — could only be by his manner , and his resemblance to her , McAllister 's formidable father , so often referred to . |
| 18 | He must have been a good bit older than her . |
| 19 | He must have been a monied gentleman because it was a marvellous house . |
| 20 | And , indeed , he must have been a tough little lad to have survived it all , though it was to take its toll on him eventually ; by the time he died in far-away London at the age of 29 he had lived through some very harsh times indeed . |
| 21 | He must have been a remarkable man , because when his aircraft was shot down he lost his right hand but before many months had passed he was back on his squadron with a hook on his right arm , and although I am not one hundred percent sure of my facts here , I believe he went back on operations as a navigator or air gunner . |
| 22 | I think , when I think it since , I think he must have been a remarkable man to work and slave like that . |
| 23 | He must have been a natural for the job , being one of the very few Greeks with an appropriate qualification . |
| 24 | The way Pomiane chose to convey the necessary quantity to his listeners — he must have been a compelling radio talker — and later to his readers was in terms of " a bunch as large as a bunch of violets " . |
| 25 | She learned that Maxim had an elder sister — oddly , she 'd always assumed he must have been the first child — who had married a Quaker school-master and lived up North , had three children and did n't work , ‘ Except at disapproving of the Army , ’ Maxim added . |
| 26 | He must have been the first cousin of Man . |
| 27 | He must have been the best-known and most celebrated inhabitant of Baldersdale — excepting Hannah Hauxwell , of course — within living memory . |
| 28 | He must have been the last to drink it . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , yes , please ! ’ returned Sally-Anne , and then caught her breath again , when he turned his head , presenting her with his beautiful , undamaged profile — he must have been an absolute stunner before he was disfigured . |
| 30 | He must have been an eligible enough bachelor : the son of a fairly prosperous artisan family , trained as a craftsman , and quite a handsome chap into the bargain . |