Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] must have been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He appeared slight standing next to the sergeant major , although he must have been a shade over six feet himself . |
| 2 | Great-Grandfather was running a farm at the same time , so he must have been a very busy man . |
| 3 | So it must have been a grown person 's skull but it 's too small and light for an adult male , so it must have been a woman . |
| 4 | Once it must have been a familiar sight in Cheltenham ; now the horse drawn carriage looks a little out of place among the busy traffic , snaking it 's way around the towns one-way system . |
| 5 | Whether it was the distance , whether the record , because it must have been a record , had been deliberately slowed — there seemed to be some tonal distortion as well — I could n't tell , but the song came with a dreamlike slowness and dimness , almost as if it was being sung out of the stars and had had to cross all that night and space to reach me . |
| 6 | They must have been on to her or somebody 's given her away , one or t' other , 'cos it must have been a set-up cop . |
| 7 | The advertisement pages of The Scotsman in the golden Edwardian afternoon carried long columns of vacancies for parlourmaids , cooks and housemaids ( so it is not surprising , though it must have been a source of irritation , that male printers hostile to women entering the trade often urged them to look for work " in service " ) . |
| 8 | Sometimes , people in ancient places , in flashes of paranormal imagination , see once again the Forum in Pompeii as it must have been a few days before Mount Etna 's eruption ; or — was it Freud 's or Jung 's story ? — musicians in a Rhenish Schloss , playing clavichords for a duke and his family . |