Example sentences of "must [verb] been [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page

No	Sentence
1	It was brought home to Charles for the first time how much of a strain the last weeks must have been for a girl of her age .
2	You must have been at a party . ’
3	Must have been on a visit .
4	By the Saints , he must have been without a woman for too long , he thought wryly .
5	On a further appeal to the Privy Council the Board held that , if jurisdiction existed at all , it must have been under a section of the relevant Bahamas legislation ( section 23 of the Court of Appeal Act ( Statute Law of the Bahama Islands , 1965 rev. , c. 34 ) ) which provided :
6	The Press Box must have been like a morgue when David McCallan scored that goal against them in the Irish Cup quarter final .
7	‘ It must have been like a drug to him .
8	It must have been like a drug to him because he sounded completely obsessed .
9	And it let an old house alongside with nothing in it and hardly a door on it and that stood right alongside of that one and it must have been like a comb it just must have gone in strips the gale for that house was now twelve foot away from the other one .
10	I think she must have been in a state of shock .
11	Her presence in the workhouse in itself seems an odd occurrence ; it was hardly as if she had no-one to turn to — any one of her brothers must have been in a position to help when help was needed .
12	Oh , it must have been in a fight , sir .
13	Yet again , if slightly more hardcore fans have n't already got ‘ Injected With A Poison ’ ( mix credited to Digital Orgasm , daft since they made the record in the first place ) or Sonz Of A Loop Da Loop Era , then they must have been in a coma for months .
14	Their home was in London and Fanshawe must have been in a hurry .
15	‘ You must have been in a hurry to come out without your coat ; you 'll feel the chill afore the night 's out . ’
16	No , must have been in a car park .

  Next page