Example sentences of "must [vb infin] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm I got down on my hands and knees I must 've done it for an hour |
| 2 | You must stop treating me like a naughty girlfriend , for I am neither the one nor the other . |
| 3 | It must have lulled me into a day dream . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | He must have heard her at the door . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Yet Badcox Lane must have regarded her as a member of their congregation in the widest sense , at least in spirit ; when she died , aged 79 , and was buried at Catherine Hill on 18 May 1826 , the chapel entered the fact in its register . |
| 8 | ‘ You must have done it for a good reason . |
| 9 | ‘ We also know that if Vechey committed suicide he must have done it in the early hours , just before dawn . |
| 10 | You must have seen him at the pictures . ‘ |
| 11 | He must have seen you through the window and he kissed me to punish me . |
| 12 | If she had thought she was showing him a stop-light , however , he must have seen it as a green one , for his arm suddenly tightened and there was a definite amorous gleam in his eye as he edged closer to her and breathed seductively , ‘ I like you so much , Fabia . ’ |
| 13 | She felt she must have seen it in a dream . |
| 14 | But an EastEnders spokesman reckons its a load of blarney : ‘ He must have said it as a joke . |
| 15 | My visit must have alarmed him to the extent that he decided to check again to ensure he had n't left any clues . |
| 16 | You must have read it in a woman 's magazine . ’ |
| 17 | In washing her hands after breakfast she had taken off her wedding ring and must have left it on the side of the basin . |
| 18 | I must have left it off the hook this morning . |
| 19 | In R v Mehmed [ 1963 ] Crim LR 780 where the accused had an air pistol which he produced in another 's private house , it would be reasonable to assume that he must have carried it in a public place to get it there or to take it away . |
| 20 | His Mum must have persuaded him about the parrot . |
| 21 | He must have told you about a Darkfall back there . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The Minoans seem to have been self-sufficient in terms of basic needs , which must have put them in a position of trading strength , but they relied on imports for supplies of exotic raw materials for the manufacture of luxury goods . |
| 24 | ‘ I did n't steal your money , you stupid bitch , you must have put it in the wrong apron . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Two men … someone must have let them in the front door … they took Jacqui … ’ |
| 26 | Then suddenly she heard the sound of someone coming , and she put aside her sadness of heart , to realise that Lubor , perhaps on the lookout for her , must have spotted her from a window somewhere . |
| 27 | He must have rescued me from the canal , because my clothes were wet through , so were his … ’ |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | She must have got it from the room where I keep my guns . |
| 30 | Only decent thing in the room , if you ask me ; he must have won it in a raffle . |