Example sentences of "must [verb] been [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sure it must have been rather a strain to keep pretending an interest in a boring little milliner from Mannheim . ’ |
| 2 | He did n't actually live in St Aldate 's , but he must have been here a lot , because he was mayor in 1636 , he was an alderman erm he was very much a leading in the city , and I think the leader of the opposition to Royal Policies . |
| 3 | Well that must have been just a bus going . |
| 4 | Receiving the Order of Lenin from Gorbachev 's men must have been almost a humiliation for Ceauşescu on his seventieth birthday in 1988 . |
| 5 | ‘ I suppose it must have been about a quarter past eight . |
| 6 | ‘ Mixed marriage ’ seems such an outdated expression nowadays but at the turn of the century it must have been quite a sacrifice for both of them to make . |
| 7 | It must have been quite a shock when he turned up on the doorstep . ’ |
| 8 | It must have been quite a shock for you all of a sudden to be dealing with millions of pounds on the budget . |
| 9 | is very clever to have got his weight down , and an 11-mile orienteering course at Silverdale must have been quite a testing expedition . |
| 10 | Well that must have been quite a mess . |
| 11 | Our press date prevents us giving details of this run but it must have been quite a spectacle if it went ahead as reported , and would have provided a fitting finale to an outstanding season of operations . |
| 12 | It must have been quite a spectacle though when the first combine came |
| 13 | It must have been quite a crash . |
| 14 | She 'd been writing for the NME , about David Cassidy and things like that but it must have been quite a struggle to get by . |
| 15 | She must have been quite a joker with that bantam on her head , pigeons fluttering noisily on her shoulders ; it had all been wonderful outdoor fun . |
| 16 | That must have been quite a bible lesson . |
| 17 | It must have been half a minute before Luke said in a scathing drawl , ‘ Find out ? |