Example sentences of "must have [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They must have bugged her for the same reason we went to see her : she was somebody unofficial but experienced in underground work — They 'd know they were up against some British group not the CIA . |
| 2 | He must have heard her at the door . |
| 3 | He tells us — largely as he must have heard it from the horse 's mouth — the history of programmed machines , the development of McCarthy 's own interest in combining human common sense with the brute number-crunching force of early computers , and how this led to his own contributions , perhaps the best-known of which is the invention of LISP , now the standard programming language of artificial intelligence . |
| 4 | ‘ We also know that if Vechey committed suicide he must have done it in the early hours , just before dawn . |
| 5 | You must have seen him at the pictures . ‘ |
| 6 | He must have seen you through the window and he kissed me to punish me . |
| 7 | My visit must have alarmed him to the extent that he decided to check again to ensure he had n't left any clues . |
| 8 | In washing her hands after breakfast she had taken off her wedding ring and must have left it on the side of the basin . |
| 9 | I must have left it off the hook this morning . |
| 10 | His Mum must have persuaded him about the parrot . |
| 11 | He won the local Easter parade a couple of times as the best-dressed man which , in the depressed Thirties , must have put him in the mould of something of an exhibitionist . |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't steal your money , you stupid bitch , you must have put it in the wrong apron . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Two men … someone must have let them in the front door … they took Jacqui … ’ |
| 14 | He must have rescued me from the canal , because my clothes were wet through , so were his … ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It 's funny , ’ says Brian , ‘ they 're both so like my own kids that we often say the stork must have dropped them in the wrong homes the first time around . |
| 16 | She must have got it from the room where I keep my guns . |