Example sentences of "must [verb] been [verb] by [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time I thought little more about it , but later I realized that it must have been caused by some powerful pain-killing drug . |
| 2 | These tortoise holes are often so long — up to forty feet — that judging from the tortoise 's slow rate of excavation they must have been made by several generations and are probably several centuries old . |
| 3 | must have been threaded by some child . |
| 4 | When William Burnes died at Lochlea in 1784 , John Tennant lent a horse to help to convey his body to Alloway for burial in the grounds of Kirk Alloway and memories of Alloway and the ruined kirk must have been recalled by both families when they met on that day . |
| 5 | It must have been written by some exasperated editor receiving streams of verbose articles from amateur authors . |