Example sentences of "must have [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | From the volume , Paige guessed the machine must have landed on the lawn . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | To take the photograph he must have stood on the edge of the wood , under the beech hedge which bounded it perhaps . |
| 6 | Mallard may have been the fastest steam train in the world , but how many mothers must have complained about the journey ? |
| 7 | Well , this old bell must have fallen off a ship , or perhaps it got washed out here in a flood . |
| 8 | It must have fallen into the trap some time ago . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But they 're going to develop a ride which will recreate how it must have felt at the time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Telegraph commented : ‘ As Sir Alf [ pictured ] watched his team begin their first game together since last November he must have felt like a yachtsman who takes the winter covers off his boat , eases it into the water and finds it has sprung leaks fore , aft and midships . ’ |
| 13 | She must have to rely on the woman to let her in and out . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Associates of the Institute must have served in a solicitor 's office for three years and have passed four examination papers in law and Fellows must be over 25 , have served eight years in a solicitor 's office and have passed a further three examinations from a list of subjects offered by the Institute . |
| 17 | He must have ridden through the crowd but I did n't see him do it . |
| 18 | The Chief Constable must have called in the Yard within a few minutes of getting the news . |
| 19 | To marry by certificate with licence either of the partners must have lived in the area for 15 days ad both must be in the country when notice is given . |
| 20 | Aye , she must have lived around the corner but she was the . |
| 21 | In a moment , a wave must have swept across the prison yard outside . |
| 22 | She had always resented Luke , and feared the way he made her feel — because she must have sensed from the beginning the power he could and did have over her ; because he had deprived her of himself when he had had her dismissed from that very first job back in South Africa ; because something had led him to misjudge and despise her , and he was unable to see the truth ; because she had always known that he could break her heart … |
| 23 | Burns and Mary Campbell must have meandered around the estate in their courtship and the monument to their final parting is only a short distance from the battlefield and burial mound . |
| 24 | It is difficult now to imagine the splendour which the vast incrustation of ornaments must have presented to the eye by the time the church was complete . |
| 25 | Your baby must have frightened off the intruder . |
| 26 | One with all the attributes of a jet-setter , considering the sort of life he must have led before the accident that had put him out of motor racing , yet he seemed to be living here like a monk . |
| 27 | Soon after he came to power he personally led an expedition against the Shanqalla negroes on the Sudan border , and my father affirmed that the slaughter there must have satisfied for a time even his craving for blood . |
| 28 | All this must have raised in the laity ambivalent feelings . |
| 29 | The hoverspeeder , its motors still idling , was attempting to wedge itself into the hole in the wall which Daak must have made with the vehicle 's front thrusters . |
| 30 | It screwed me up thinking how the invalid 's hopes must have soared at the sound of my entry , and how she must now be falling into deeper and deeper misery because of the silence and the nothing happening . |