Example sentences of "must [vb infin] [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My horse went down a couple of times when we were riding along a shallow river The hooves must 've turned up the mud at the bottom and I 'm sorry but no amount of expert preparation can help you keep cool when a 500lb horse goes down on you . |
| 2 | The same is true of the all-important assessment arrangements , where secondary schools must wait to see how the tensions between TGAT and the GCSE boards ( and between Standard Assessment Tasks and school-based assessment ) will finally be resolved . |
| 3 | I know I must finish clearing up the lawn , but , before doing so , I decide to telephone Auntie to come over on her bike even though I know it will take her an hour to get here from Hambledown . |
| 4 | Again , a few instances must suffice to show how the culture of racism , and institutional processes which provide discretionary Al locative power to teachers , tend to intermesh and work against many black students . |
| 5 | She must have understood why the dog hung back . |
| 6 | The speed of descent must have cut down the exposure to any residual gas since he felt none of the earlier weirdness as he approached the still sealed engine room door . |
| 7 | The water really is n't that hot , usually , but my other one was fiddling with the boiler earlier — he must have turned up the thermostat . |
| 8 | But I must have done well the term before , or perhaps he was slacking , or both , because there we were together and Nigel as he then called himself was asking for a pound . |
| 9 | In her haste to get away , she must have bundled up the documents and ledgers that she had been working on and brought them back with her . |
| 10 | Some thought the Führer must have meant only the losses on the eastern Front , not including Stalingrad and those missing , and put the real figure at something like one and a half million . |
| 11 | The origins of the military colony of Elephantine are unknown , but the author of the letter which goes under the name of Aristeas must have found somewhere the piece of information that Jewish soldiers helped Psammetichus in his campaign against the king of the Ethiopians ( 13 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ Her father must have wondered where the money came from ; what did she tell him ? ’ |
| 13 | The trio were modifying the trolley with implements they must have brought in the pockets of the golf-bags . |
| 14 | We must help to clear up the confusion , dismantle — where appropriate — the weapons and assist in the disposal of the fissile material . |