Example sentences of "must have [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doo I must 've crossed every fucking road |
| 2 | He must 've broken the other arm because the next day he had both arms in plaster . |
| 3 | You must 've got an extra sheet than me because one of the things I was moaning about this morning erm , maybe you 've got a different |
| 4 | ‘ All it tells us is he must 've had a foreign accent for them to give him a name like that . |
| 5 | Beautiful piece , one of the earliest I 've seen — but he must 've had a hard head , ‘ coz it broke . |
| 6 | You must have cared an awful lot about her to deliberately stay away from London because of her . |
| 7 | To qualify for an ultra race , runners must have completed a full marathon in under three hours 30 minutes . |
| 8 | Anyone interested in joining the course must have completed the retail management training scheme . |
| 9 | Magistrates sitting in the Juvenile Court must have completed the special training for the Juvenile Panel . |
| 10 | Two of the several names owned by another recipient had strayed into someone 's word-processor to create a further deserving don , the knowing reference to whom must have ruined the new year for more than one senior scholar . |
| 11 | The puppets are modelled on the famous illustrations by Tenniel — but Spitting Images must have influenced the formidable duchess and Tebbit-like cook and they stirred their pepper soup and sneezed . |
| 12 | I accepted his offer as Sir Galahad must have accepted the Holy Grail . |
| 13 | Looking back on that then , you must have lost a great number of colleagues and workmates that it must give you sort of mixed feelings looking back on it ? |
| 14 | Exceptionally dashing in his polo clothes ( he was a ten-goal player ) , he must have struck an imposing figure at six foot four . |
| 15 | Somehow I must have missed the original LPs ( or perhaps they were never released this side of the Atlantic ) , but here are Jean-Pierre Rampal , Isaac Stern , Yo-Yo Ma mixing it up with Japanese instrumentalists , playing traditional oriental music alongside pieces by Yamada , Miyagi , and Yoshizawa , amongst others . |
| 16 | She said she was sure I must have missed an English Christmas abroad all these years . |
| 17 | He did not reply to the letter I left on his desk until months later , by which time he must have overcome the initial shock my flight must surely have caused him . |
| 18 | Thus , at least one of the systems that children have been learning over the centuries in the ancestral forms of BV must have incorporated a three-way distinction of meet/meat/mate . |
| 19 | They must have recalled the prophetic remarks in 1829 of the Nez Perce elder Speckled Snake : ‘ I have listened to many talks from the great father . |
| 20 | But the fact that he must have discerned a certain shyness in her responses … |
| 21 | You must have heard the old story about the bucket of water ; when it was shown to the optimist he described it as being ‘ half full ’ while the pessimist said that it was ‘ half empty ’ . |
| 22 | Whoever was in the flat must have heard the muffled sound of the closing door and was going through into the bedroom to have a look out of the window . |
| 23 | He must have heard the racing results at six o'clock . |
| 24 | erm I think the city must have become a real mess , there were stores piled up everywhere , wood , coal , corn , often I think they had to build sort of , something to hold the corn , there 's a lot of the evidence for that in the college accounts certainly . |
| 25 | And it should be said that , at least outwardly , Murphy and his men retained their charm and their good humour throughout what must have become a harrowing experience . |
| 26 | An orbiting imperial cruiser must have noted the attempted escape . |
| 27 | On the night of Good Friday , the apostles must have felt a painful sense of loss . |
| 28 | For all he said about poetry being a ‘ mug 's game ’ , he must have felt an interior exultation at knowing that he possessed outstanding gifts . |
| 29 | There was a bump as we must have crossed the central reservation and then one said I was going out . |
| 30 | At Charlton Mackerell ( right ) the carver must have mistaken a lighted candle for a flower in the bottom corner , when copying from a book |