Example sentences of "must [vb infin] [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pierceable gas cartridges must remain attached to the stove . |
| 2 | She must 've gone to the shops . |
| 3 | ‘ When I saw him , but he must 've come on the bus it 'd stop at the turn an' 't was about the time . |
| 4 | She must 've sneaked into the pantry one day when nobody was looking and taken a bite out of that jelly . |
| 5 | And here she 's telling Ruth , now what you 've got ta do , she 's she 's got him , she 's got her introduced to Boaz and she tells him it 's a strange custom , one that 's perhaps even stranger in our eyes today but there er after the party , the great harvest supper she 's , the the they lie down in the barn together , they all just , they 're tired it 's , it 's , the party 's gone on into the wee hours of the morning , and there they just , they do n't bother going home , they lie down there in the barn together all of them and she says to Ruth what you must do according to the custom is , you go and you lie at the feet of Boaz and wait , just wait , and wait for him to respond to you . |
| 6 | They conform to the same technical rules as ports de bras and must appear to pass through the centre line of the arm from shoulder to finger-tips and move within the two circles drawn by the elbows and hands . |
| 7 | To return to the catastrophe of the Thorntons , it is basically all right , because you keep the rule that important characters who are going to die must begin dying from the start . |
| 8 | THE TYPICAL programmer sees a modern computer in terms of one or more high-level languages , together with a command language which he must use to communicate with the operating system . |
| 9 | If a bench of two justices can not bring themselves thus to dispose of the case there was no other sensible construction of section 9(2) then that a bench of three must become seized of the matter , rehear the evidence and comply with the statute , i.e. convict or acquit on the evidence . |
| 10 | Now take these twigs of basil , put them into a sack , and for seven nights you must sleep lying between the trenches of the vineyard , with your head pillowed on the sack . " |
| 11 | During the next few months and years , we must avoid continuing in the trap that we were in before . |
| 12 | I must try to live under the cross daily . |
| 13 | Agents must try to burrow into the minds of central bankers to discover what motivates their actions governing the course of the money stock . |
| 14 | None of these large animals could possibly have passed over the arms of the sea which now separates these countries , and their presence plainly indicates that a land communication must have existed since the origin of the species … ’ |
| 15 | The expectation that the new borrowings will be available , if required , must have existed at the balance sheet date and this expectation should be reviewed in the light of any post balance sheet events to ensure it remains reasonable on the date the financial statements are approved by the directors . |
| 16 | From the volume , Paige guessed the machine must have landed on the lawn . |
| 17 | It encouraged him towards early independence and self-sufficiency without which he would not have got his career off to so quick a start ; and it must have contributed to the ease with which , to further that career , he uprooted himself first from South Africa and later from his adopted second homeland in Britain . |
| 18 | To take the photograph he must have stood on the edge of the wood , under the beech hedge which bounded it perhaps . |
| 19 | Mallard may have been the fastest steam train in the world , but how many mothers must have complained about the journey ? |
| 20 | Despite Alcuin 's reservations about Eardwulf , the king must have stepped into the shoes of the slain Aethelred as a recipient of Carolingian favours and may even have married a kinswoman of Charlemagne . |
| 21 | It must have fallen into the trap some time ago . |
| 22 | They must have fallen from the loft and hopped inside , and touched something in there that brought the rusty flap crashing down to entomb them . |
| 23 | Erm you must have heard of the phrases of poncing , where somebody is operating a prostitute and if they do n't get a required amount of money a week or er er an amount of money where they consider it sufficient , they 'll probably go and beat them up or something like that . |
| 24 | But they 're going to develop a ride which will recreate how it must have felt at the time . |
| 25 | It was easy to imagine what relief the miners must have felt at the end of a long day 's work in those conditions when they saw the mouth of the tunnel framing the daylight before them . |
| 26 | But — you must have escaped from the TARDIS ? ’ |
| 27 | She must have to rely on the woman to let her in and out . |
| 28 | Yet , Boswell must have written on the hoof , and in fat detail — a diligence requiring either unstoppable ambition , and an almost morbid discipline — or both . |
| 29 | The abbey church of St Ricquier , built in the 790s , had galleries in its apses , and choir screens round the area of some of its altars , with the idea ( as we know from the ritual order of its Abbot Angilbert ) of dividing the monks ' and boys ' choirs ; the building must have echoed to the sound of these choirs as they answered each other antiphonally from different parts of it . |
| 30 | He must have ridden through the crowd but I did n't see him do it . |