Example sentences of "must have [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must have cared an awful lot about her to deliberately stay away from London because of her . |
| 2 | To qualify for an ultra race , runners must have completed a full marathon in under three hours 30 minutes . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Exceptionally dashing in his polo clothes ( he was a ten-goal player ) , he must have struck an imposing figure at six foot four . |
| 6 | She said she was sure I must have missed an English Christmas abroad all these years . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But the fact that he must have discerned a certain shyness in her responses … |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | On the night of Good Friday , the apostles must have felt a painful sense of loss . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | At Charlton Mackerell ( right ) the carver must have mistaken a lighted candle for a flower in the bottom corner , when copying from a book |
| 15 | Though his extravagance was well rewarded , it must have placed a severe strain on the house 's finances . |
| 16 | The loss of territorial control , with minority Russian populations in so many of the new countries , must have created a great deal of resentment , again not unlike Germany after World War l . |
| 17 | I really felt she had gone too far ; the book must have cost a small fortune . |
| 18 | Some of the equipment in here must have cost a small fortune — it would be dreadful , would n't it , if there should happen to be an accident ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ That must have cost a pretty penny , ’ Mickey Aronson declared , not really expecting to be told the price . |
| 20 | ‘ It must have cost an awful lot , all this , ’ she murmured , looking around across the large expanse of land , the huge , dominating barn . |
| 21 | This independence and opportunity for large profit must have been the most important distinction between riches and grinding poverty and must have played a greater part in creating the economic hierarchy of rural society than any other factor . |
| 22 | One early candidate , Henry Plough in 1517 , was simply appointed ; the opinion of the local priest — and , one assumes , of the local community — must have played a large part in most recommendations . |
| 23 | The formation of the commercial basis of the kingdoms is not uniform and geography must have played an important part in the speed with which they evolved out of the less commercial exchanges of primitive valuables between earlier corporate descent groups and cohesive political units . |
| 24 | As such he must have played an important role in the bank 's transformation into a fully-fledged central bank in the 1920s . |
| 25 | This group must have exerted a considerable attraction , enough to account for the growth of a small community containing shops , a bakery and blacksmiths . |
| 26 | We must have touched a little spot there I think Stan . |
| 27 | Humphreys must have presented a strange sight , bloodied and bewildered and still without his shoes and socks . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I must have cut a handsome figure up there , black and glossy , and she could hardly fail to have been impressed . |
| 30 | The poet James Fenton , who was stringing for The Washington Post and who must have cut an unlikely figure riding into Saigon on a victorious Viet Cong tank ( described in The Fall of Saigon , first published in Granta 15 and then included in All the Wrong Places ) , wrote a savage review of the book in the New Statesman describing Herr as a ‘ shooter ’ , rather than a reporter for Esquire . |