Example sentences of "[noun prp] must have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the 1590s Evesham must have had a London workshop . |
| 2 | Pete must have watched a lot of Open University programmes on the outside . |
| 3 | On that night , Tuesday , 24 August 1773 , they talked of murderers being hanged — Lord Errol must have had a fund of such stories : he was the Lord High Constable of Scotland ; then they drank port , and were seen to their rooms by their host himself . |
| 4 | Isabelle must have left a legacy of frightening bitterness behind her in this place in order to set off a reaction like that . |
| 5 | Maxie Carlo must 've cracked a joke . |
| 6 | Hank must have done a robbery to have so much money — he must have — there had been one or two bad ones recently — a Chinese grocer had been shot to death , in one instance . |
| 7 | Yet when he came to write the chapters on earthquakes and volcanos in Madam How and Lady Why ( 1869 ) , he could not dismiss from his mind the notion that , underlying the scientific explanation of how these disasters occurred , God must have had a reason for permitting them . |
| 8 | I estimate that the L.O.R. must have had a stock of at least 1000 tickets to cover all needs . |
| 9 | Mike Gatting presented , and in the pre-match interviews he stressed that it was very , very hot , and I swear Gatt must have lost a stone just standing out in the middle talking about the pitch . |
| 10 | Old Charlie must have had a bit of a penchant for potholing judging by the amount of time he spent in every rock crevice north of Carlisle , but I prefer to suspend my scepticism and believe that the great man did indeed peel off his powdered wig and roll out a sleeping-bag in all the places that maps and local handouts would have us believe . |