Example sentences of "it must have been [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It also gives the information that Rolle was " accustomed to show himself very familiar to recluses , and to those who needed spiritual consolation " and it must have been during this period of his life that he met his disciple Margaret de Kirkeby . |
2 | He had visited the place in 1937 and it must have been on this occasion that he took photographs of the village and of St Michael 's Church there ( where later his ashes were to be interred ) . |
3 | There is a display also of various types of mountain refuge or cabin , from which you can judge how extremely uncomfortable it must have been for those invited by Count Russell to share his quarters on his favourite mountain of Vignemale , for the so-called ‘ Russell ’ is quite the most Spartan of shelters , little more than a hollow scooped out under an overhanging rock . |
4 | It must have been with some degree of cautiousness and a heightened sense of responsibility that Gould once more stocked up on shot , caps , and powder on his way back through Launceston for the journey home . |
5 | It must have been at that time that his habit of keeping notes on his travels began . |
6 | It must have been at some time , because I can speak it now . |
7 | No it must have been before nineteen eighty . |
8 | There was a time , no doubt — it must have been before 1948 , when the United Kingdom itself abolished allegiance as the basis of citizenship — when the pretence of daughter monarchies around the globe was harmless and even arguably beneficial . |
9 | It is difficult to visualize now , but it must have been within this pavilion that the young Roshanara consulted her spies as she reclined on carpets beside the gently bubbling irrigation runnels . |
10 | ‘ Well , it must have been after that he had his accident . ’ |
11 | Something like that , it must have been like that . |
12 | It must have been like that for Euturpia , when she was turned out to the cabana . |
13 | ‘ It must have been like this in Arkaig when my father first went there , ’ Cameron said to Menzies . |
14 | It must have been like this watching a man being broken on the rack , Blanche thought . |
15 | If this prophecy conveys anything of the sentiments of the Crowland community at the time , it must have been from congenial company hostile to Penda 's descendants that Aethelbald emerged to establish himself as king in Mercia , if not when Ceolred died ( ASC A , s.a. , 716 ) then certainly when an otherwise unknown Ceolwald , who may have succeeded Ceolred , died or was driven out . |
16 | Others , however , joined in the exercise : ‘ It must have been in such and such a way ; I mean , there 's a story which says … |
17 | She did n't finish her apprenticeship — I deduce that , rather than know it — sometime , it must have been in 1934 , came south , worked in Woolworths on the Edgware Road , spent the war years in Roehampton , a ward maid again , at the hospital where they mended fighter pilots ' ruined faces . |
18 | So it must have been in nineteen eighty nine , just after the |
19 | It must have been in that one moment of darkness , as she 'd been taking her hand away . |
20 | It must have been in these years that Henry II and Eleanor became increasingly estranged . |