Example sentences of "must have [verb] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd never had a weight problem , of course , but she must have lost a few pounds over the past few days , because the waistband of the shorts she was wearing this morning — which she had purchased in New York only last Saturday — was already far looser than it had been . |
| 2 | He would never understand how she could memorize all those complex , impossibly long poems , yet forget the words of a simple song she must have heard a thousand times or more . |
| 3 | The mill has a large belt wheel at the second floor level and , at such a height , must have presented a few problems with the fitting of the drive belt . |
| 4 | The proviso of the key must have raised a few eyebrows . |
| 5 | He must have waved a thousand times , and it was barely ten o'clock . |
| 6 | I 've been family member for twelve years and must have seen a thousand children , and of those , barely fifty had both their natural mother and father ! |
| 7 | She must have seen a few sights in her time . ’ |
| 8 | But on a rainy March afternoon in 1988 it must have seemed a million miles from home . |
| 9 | She must have forgotten a few things in the holidays , like the time I pushed her in the school goldfish pond . |
| 10 | ‘ I think I must have aged a dozen years today , ’ she said . |
| 11 | The phrase , which was one she must have used a hundred times to visiting parishioners in ordinary times , took on a poignant inadequacy in the context of the murder of her husband . |
| 12 | He must have taken a thousand pictures with people . |
| 13 | Between the Arch and the back of the Admiralty proper runs a small unnamed side-street which I must have passed a hundred times without really noticing . |
| 14 | Mind you I heard he could hear it in the background so he must have got a few kids |