Example sentences of "must have been [verb] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 Must have been looking for a house .
2 He must have been looking for the keys .
3 They must have been riding for a long time , but there was no sign of a large town , only a solitary light shining ahead .
4 It must have been mistaken for a deer . "
5 It is not known where the Gospel was written but it must have been written for a Jewish Christian community .
6 This has the appearance of an emergency military operation which may not apply to the other civil defences , but these too must have been commissioned for a specific occasion , but where the emergency may not have been too critical .
7 She must have been going for the six o'clock train , and she was probably in a dickens of a rush when … ’
8 Some ore was so intermixed with gangue however , that the concentration by hand was extremely laborious and the mill must have been needed for a long time .
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