Example sentences of "must [verb] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The low price of sugar before 1690 , the dangers of war after 1690 , the Company 's inadequate provision for depreciation , and the planters ' unwillingness to pay their debts , might between them have ruined the Company in any case , but the end of the monopoly must have contributed something to the collapse . |
| 2 | ‘ They must have bugged her for the same reason we went to see her : she was somebody unofficial but experienced in underground work — They 'd know they were up against some British group not the CIA . |
| 3 | I must have missed something in the council tax . |
| 4 | It must have transmitted itself to the patients , for even they gave up after their initial attempts at jollity , and by mid-morning a definite air of gloom seemed to have settled over the place . |
| 5 | He must have heard her at the door . |
| 6 | Of course , this group at Ephesus must have heard something about the Holy Spirit if they listened at all attentively to John the Baptist , but they did not realise that the promised Spirit was available for them ; that he could make a difference to their lives . |
| 7 | He tells us — largely as he must have heard it from the horse 's mouth — the history of programmed machines , the development of McCarthy 's own interest in combining human common sense with the brute number-crunching force of early computers , and how this led to his own contributions , perhaps the best-known of which is the invention of LISP , now the standard programming language of artificial intelligence . |
| 8 | ‘ We also know that if Vechey committed suicide he must have done it in the early hours , just before dawn . |
| 9 | You must have seen him at the pictures . ‘ |
| 10 | He must have seen you through the window and he kissed me to punish me . |
| 11 | At a World Cup : ‘ The manager must have said something in the Dutch dressing gown at half-time . ’ |
| 12 | My visit must have alarmed him to the extent that he decided to check again to ensure he had n't left any clues . |
| 13 | In washing her hands after breakfast she had taken off her wedding ring and must have left it on the side of the basin . |
| 14 | I must have left it off the hook this morning . |
| 15 | His Mum must have persuaded him about the parrot . |
| 16 | As earnings rank as personalty in any case and they must have had something in the way of moveables , especially those taxed on land , it is reasonable to treat all assessments as though made on goods . |
| 17 | ‘ He must have had somebody on the boat , ’ said Owen . |
| 18 | She must have thrown herself down the stairs ! |
| 19 | He won the local Easter parade a couple of times as the best-dressed man which , in the depressed Thirties , must have put him in the mould of something of an exhibitionist . |
| 20 | ‘ I did n't steal your money , you stupid bitch , you must have put it in the wrong apron . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Two men … someone must have let them in the front door … they took Jacqui … ’ |
| 22 | Sarah , in her turn , must have experienced something of the warmth of feeling which can link one human being to another , but now , all that was left was a fierce possessiveness , veined with jealousy which at any moment could flare into hatred . |
| 23 | He must have rescued me from the canal , because my clothes were wet through , so were his … ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It 's funny , ’ says Brian , ‘ they 're both so like my own kids that we often say the stork must have dropped them in the wrong homes the first time around . |
| 25 | She must have got it from the room where I keep my guns . |
| 26 | Thus , where the draftsman used the phrase " adjoining premises " in one part of the lease and the phrase " adjoining or neighbouring premises " in another part of it , it was held that the former phrase only applied to property that came into physical contact with the demised property because the words " or neighbouring " must have added something to the word " adjoining " ( White v Harrow ( 1902 ) 86 LT 4 ) . |