Example sentences of "must have been [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you must you must have been asked dozens of times to go back into the pop concert field ? |
| 2 | At this period the players must have been getting sick of the sight of each other , for just another few months and England were playing their first one-day games in the West Indies . |
| 3 | ‘ It must have been getting light at about seven o'clock . |
| 4 | The suddenness of the increased use of artillery in the third quarter of the fourteenth century is evidenced by the fact that when Gaston Fébus , vicomte of Béarn in the Pyrenees , had a network of fortifications constructed between 1365 and 1380 ( a period during which many castles were built in France ) he must have been building some of the last fortifications to take no account of artillery , which was very soon to compel important developments in the art of defence . |
| 5 | Alex 's strange position in the production must have been making all of the usual understudy agonies even worse . |
| 6 | One of Town 's resolutions must have been to make more of their chances . |
| 7 | Straightforward conversation wife to wife , well again she must have been told that by her husband to even mention it . |
| 8 | Finn must have been lying awake in the darkness , as she was , the wall separating them like Tristan 's sword , for she could hear the soft murmur of him and Francie talking together for a little while , but she could not make out one word . |
| 9 | It was thought they must have been conferred all at once in an act of divine creation . |
| 10 | Well he must have been doing that with the saucepan , he 's pulled all the carpet up . |
| 11 | He presumed the dog must have been left alone in the house . |
| 12 | The Gamay vines must have been planted prior to 1948 . |