Example sentences of "must [verb] been [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think maybe I must have been Spanish in some former life — I feel as though I 've come home . ’ |
| 2 | She must have been asleep for some hours when the sound of her opening bedroom door penetrated her dreams and brought her instantly awake . |
| 3 | Oswiu 's involvement must have been minimal in all of them . |
| 4 | The marshy lands around Stirling and Bannockburn must have been inhospitable to these early settlers , but were to prove of incalculable worth to fourteenth-century patriots determined to assert their independence from southern predators . |
| 5 | Late in his recorded career he described himself as ‘ only simply lettered ’ , but his extensive citation of biblical , patristic , and canonistic authorities in both Latin and English suggests that he must have been familiar with academic sources . |
| 6 | Most seem to have developed between 1130 and 1200 , but on some estates the process must have been complete by 1183 when the Bolden Book was compiled . |
| 7 | Its sudden arrival on the scene must have been embarrassing for those who have been trying to deny that federalism was on the agenda . |
| 8 | Hill must have been typical of many mid-Victorian medics who reorientated their social and political allegiances as a result of a shift in class and professional status . |
| 9 | This was a messianic fervour that must have been similar to that possessed by the ancient zealots who died defending Masada against the Romans 2,000 years ago . |
| 10 | Once , she supposed , she must have been impressed by formal evening wear on good male bodies , but now it annoyed her . |
| 11 | Lady Street had returned to what must have been normal for any morning at this time ; the delivery vans had gone , there was sporadic traffic in the one-way street , and people had no time to stand about gawping at the bookshop though they slowed their pace in passing and tried to look in without appearing to do so . |
| 12 | Even the chickens must have been ashamed of those parts of their bodies when they were alive . |
| 13 | Again we are faced with having to read between the lines , but the allusions must have been clear to most of Bukharin 's contemporaries . |
| 14 | Perhaps yeah I think you must have been airborne at that stage to be er , had such a enormous flame going up into the balloon . |
| 15 | He must have been aware of that . |
| 16 | English churchmen , who must have been aware of these activities , were sometimes also familiar with the conditions which gave rise to them . |
| 17 | Essentials that were not available locally and the growing desire for non-essentials must have been satisfied by surplus produce . |
| 18 | Oh yes oh yes in my thirty odd years erm looking back now it must have been primitive in those days really . |
| 19 | She could have been his mother , for he was the son of John Symmys of that parish , or even his relict , for he himself must have been dead by 1525 , when the Ridlington lease was granted to the duke of Richmond . |
| 20 | Robin Cranko thinks that one of them , if not both , must have been responsible for some branches of the Cranko family whom he came across during his researches . |
| 21 | Such stories as these must have been common in all religious communities , but the constant recurrence of these themes in Eadmer 's recollections leaves the impression that his thoughts , and those of the monks with whom he had lived since his infancy , were centred almost exclusively on their relics , and on the stories of the gifts , purchases , translations , and miracles associated with them . |
| 22 | says Clare about his native Helpston in the years after its enclosure , and that must have been true of most parishes that underwent the great transformation . |
| 23 | A king not universally popular , who owed his throne to assassination , must have been sensitive on such an issue , and maybe sometimes nervous of joining large assemblies of armed men . |