Example sentences of "must [vb infin] been [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jackson must 've been under the effects of the anaesthetic after a nose job to come out with something so bad . |
| 2 | It must have been towards the end of 1920 that Lord Darlington made the first of a number of trips to Berlin himself , and I can remember the profound effect it had on him . |
| 3 | I mean it was a report it must have been to the member authorities , was it a progress report or deliberations ? |
| 4 | I must have been with the vet for an hour but the driver was still waiting to take me home . |
| 5 | He could even appreciate how tricky a situation this must have been for the DIA , although it did little to ease his sense of injury . |
| 6 | ‘ You must have been at the whisky bottle . ’ |
| 7 | ( Cor blimey gov. must have been at the crimble drink already ) . |
| 8 | He must have been on the phone as soon as she had stormed out of the door . |
| 9 | He instantly spotted the ‘ yorker ’ delivered by the man from BBC Wales — in effect , that the England match could not have been one he expected to win at the start of the season , therefore the Scottish match must have been on the credit side of the ledger . |
| 10 | Laurin concluded that the Tetraceratops , as a species , lay between the pelycosaurs and therapsids , and that it must have been on the way to becoming a mammal . |
| 11 | He jumped up from the chair he was sitting on and knocked something on to the floor , something that must have been on the arm . |
| 12 | Despite suggesting that God must have been on the side of the Philistines in the battle , they talk as if God is literally enthroned above the ark , and the bringing of it to the camp will mean the bringing of God himself . |
| 13 | I 'm sure you 're inside by now and I did n't see you , so it must have been over the gardens to the back door . |
| 14 | When you were finally given this flat in February this year , you must have been over the moon . |
| 15 | It must have been about the turn of the century the er Times newspaper ran a competition and it wa , the competition was a very simple one , difficult to answer but it was very simply put it was asking for people to write in letters and essays , and features and articles on , what was wrong with the world . |
| 16 | Well when I , I saw him come in door at this end and I thought oh well , I 'll follow them see if they 've gone back and they were sat , well it must have been behind the back |
| 17 | Prentice must have been near the top of the class . |
| 18 | They 're a bit scattered around — we must have been near the bottom of the pile , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 19 | It was tucked into a corner of Bulak and must have been near the river , for once Owen caught a glimpse of ship masts at the end of a street . |
| 20 | This must have been near the end of the furnace 's working life , as some time during the following decade , the buildings were converted to a paper mill . |
| 21 | That must have been in the middle of the night . |
| 22 | No he was , he was but he was quite high up in the Royal Australian Air Force and having today which must have been in the middle of the night because Thursday , bit behind are n't they Australian 's ? |
| 23 | It must have been in the stars . ’ |
| 24 | And there was the beds that was there there was beds were still in that bothy and there was there were three of them must have been in the bed you see , and then there was a a board that they slipped in half up the bed and there was a a mattress or whatever on that and another three on that . |
| 25 | This struggle , and the Greek unity half achieved in the course of it , must have been in the programmatist 's mind ; but the project was paid for out of spoils from the conquest of one Greek city by another , and the golden shield proudly crowning the newly finished temple was set there to celebrate an early clash in the fatal hostility of Athens and Sparta which was to culminate in the Peloponnesian war and the ruin of Greece . |
| 26 | So far , I have discussed the hunting economy purely as an immediate-return one , and such indeed it is in central Australia and must have been in the case of the first hunters . |
| 27 | An individual must have been in the business for ten years or have retained shares throughout this period to qualify for maximum relief . |
| 28 | over round the left hand side in the first place , but she must have been in the wrong so they must have seen it as well , they have n't really got a strong case so they threw it out of court and last week he had a letter , he opened it , from the , from the court , and he thought oh gawld here we go again , he 's got jury service , oh |
| 29 | The repeated readings must have been in the nature of a penance , which , because of his awareness of his own prejudices , was deliberately self-imposed . |
| 30 | Well it must have been in the evening cos it was shut . |