Example sentences of "must have been [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time I thought little more about it , but later I realized that it must have been caused by some powerful pain-killing drug . |
| 2 | Sir Patrick Mayhew must have been hoping for some winners and losers , as he considers how to kick-start his talks process . |
| 3 | But it was open , I mean it must have been fenced in some way later on . |
| 4 | He must have been gouging for half an hour when an idea seemed to strike him . |
| 5 | As he stood on the tee with the green five hundred yards away , Kyle must have been thinking of another birdie , possibly an eagle . |
| 6 | Well he must have been transferred for some reason or other . |
| 7 | These tortoise holes are often so long — up to forty feet — that judging from the tortoise 's slow rate of excavation they must have been made by several generations and are probably several centuries old . |
| 8 | must have been threaded by some child . |
| 9 | To constitute an offence under those sections the waste must have been deposited on an unlicensed site or in breach of the conditions in the licence , must amount to an ‘ environmental hazard ’ and must have been deposited in such circumstances or for such a period that whoever deposited it there may reasonably be assumed to have abandoned it there or to have brought it there for the purpose of its being disposed as waste . |
| 10 | When William Burnes died at Lochlea in 1784 , John Tennant lent a horse to help to convey his body to Alloway for burial in the grounds of Kirk Alloway and memories of Alloway and the ruined kirk must have been recalled by both families when they met on that day . |
| 11 | He had thought they were at least speaking to one another privately , but if Jim had really sworn an affidavit he must have been listening on another telephone . |
| 12 | The keys must have been lost for some time . |
| 13 | It must have been written by some exasperated editor receiving streams of verbose articles from amateur authors . |
| 14 | What volcano of emotion must have been boiling inside that youngster under his teasing and laughing , under his occasionally expressionless face ? |
| 15 | The frightening film of the American Airlines DC-10 from which an engine fell clear during take-off from Chicago must have been shown on more television screens than any other comparable occurrence , and so it goes on until we reach the most horrifying event involving the South Korean Boeing 747 which was deliberately shot down north of Japan by Soviet Russian fighters with the loss of 269 lives . |
| 16 | Many colonnades , staircases , doorways and corridors open on to the Central Courts and , if the bull dance really did take place there , they must have been protected in some way from the rampaging bulls . |
| 17 | Police have asked neighbours to be alert as vehicles must have been used in many of the burglaries committed . |
| 18 | She must have been waiting for some time . |
| 19 | One of the slave-builders must have been incarcerated behind this hatch as a sacrifice to good fortune — with the chance of squirming his way up that curving conduit to some high exit point , a well-nigh impossible task when fettered . |
| 20 | Childeric must have been subjected to many of the influences which were to impinge on his son . |
| 21 | It must have been rebuilt on many occasions , the present building and adjoining mill house dating from around 1726 . |
| 22 | I think he must have been putting on all that business with his ankle , just to gain sympathy . ’ |
| 23 | Because Edith now Edith was going away for some unknown reason , I do n't know , she must have been going on another holiday anyhow . |
| 24 | At least by the time that the friend heard the click it must have been settled on that occasion that the electron 's spin was " up " . |
| 25 | Choose one of the four and try to work out what he or she must have been doing at each stage of the carnival . |
| 26 | There was no law , strictly speaking , against experimenting , although considering the stage which Alexei 's trials had reached , it was clear that he must have been working on this for some time . |
| 27 | The child 's corpse must have been loaded onto some form of transport that had been waiting beyond the yard . |
| 28 | Gist of this intelligence ( with , of course , the utmost care to protect its source ) must have been conveyed to all regional commands in the United Kingdom , and from there filtered downward , for this moment coincided with the time when Leslie declared his willingness to perform almost any task in order to help repel invaders . |