Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Penrose 's theorem had shown that any collapsing star must end in a singularity ; the time-reversed argument showed that any Friedmann-like expanding universe must have begun with a singularity . |
| 32 | He must have started as a joke , to indulge his love of singing and of local folk music . |
| 33 | I could n't blame her , I must have looked like a platoon of Japanese snipers behind all that foliage . |
| 34 | In the gloom he must have looked like a ghost . |
| 35 | Travelling by bus at night in winter could be a chilling experience , so my mother made me anklets from the fur cuffs of an old coat ; these stayed on by means of snap fasteners , and I must have looked like a poodle , but they provided considerable comfort . |
| 36 | He thought that he had heard the house door close : McAllister must have left for a stroll , or perhaps even a visit up West , and it would be safe for him to leave the surgery where he had been reading Mr H. G. Wells 's scientific romance The Time Machine , and return to the comfort of his armchair . |
| 37 | They were sometimes accompanied by Wordsworth 's daughter Dora , who to some extent replaced Dorothy after her illness ; at times this must have seemed like a re-enactment of the earlier years , when Dorothy , William and Coleridge were inseparable . |
| 38 | The patience and persistence which you must have learned as a fisherman would result in pulling us through . |
| 39 | HARRISON Ford must have wished for a second take during a speech in London to promote his new film , The Fugitive , based on the hit 1960 television series starring David Janssen . |
| 40 | They must have assembled in a side street and now they were here , mostly young and apparently in fairly good mood . |
| 41 | Yet thousands of men , fathers of families , must have lain with a prostitute at some time , and caught this disease . |
| 42 | Clovis 's death must have come as a relief to Gundobad . |
| 43 | Hardy 's decision , in 1862 , to further his career in London must have come as a surprise to his family and employer — perhaps even to himself since he set out with a return ticket in his pocket . |
| 44 | For several years , we were twins , which must have come as a surprise to my mother , then slowly she fell behind as I pulled ahead , year after year . |
| 45 | Whatever one may argue for the value of research findings which ensue from this technique ( and certainly the publication of Down and Out must have come as a revelation to many people in present-day Britain ) the question must be squarely faced as to whether the social researcher has a right to deceive and manipulate people for research purposes . |
| 46 | At the age of 63 , Friedman seems in better technical shape than ever , and to many of the younger members of his substantial audience , these performances must have come as a revelation . |
| 47 | The coypu-control man must have come on a weekday , though , and it was with that hangover that Adam associated his coming . |
| 48 | To Leeds the news must have come like a blow from a steam hammer . |
| 49 | A fire blazed in a huge hearth beneath an oak lintel which , to judge by its thickness , must have come from a tree already at least a hundred years old when it was felled to help build this ancient building . |
| 50 | Sooner or later water must have acted as a transporter for dissolved materials . |
| 51 | ‘ You must have put in a lot of hard work . ’ |
| 52 | They must have driven on a while , circled back and approached the stretch of road from the direction of the fields on foot . |
| 53 | A man must have lurked in a car parked between two lamp standards , noting the time of arrival , the minute the curtains had been drawn at her bedroom , the second their shadows met and intertwined behind the window . |
| 54 | You must have worked like a black . " |
| 55 | So far as Vecchi was concerned , the guy must have climbed into a hole in the ground and pulled the lid over his head . |
| 56 | There is a sundial over the door , dated 1751 , and inscribed with the reminder ‘ Time Passeth ’ — a concept which surely impressed the young Tennyson and which he must have mused upon a length as a boy . |
| 57 | It was while we were sitting there that my father must have died of a heart attack in Bath . |
| 58 | This type of manslaughter gets its name from the requirement that the victim must have died as a result of an unlawful act and liability is constructive because the accused is guilty even though he did not foresee death . |
| 59 | ‘ I doubt if you 'll have heard of a Romany having a magistrate removed from office either , Mr Peck , but make one arrest here and you 're very likely to be the first . ’ |
| 60 | I 'll have finished in a couple of hours . |