Example sentences of "must have [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , this old bell must have fallen off a ship , or perhaps it got washed out here in a flood . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The same waves reached Hawaii in the central Pacific less than 5 hours later and must have travelled at a speed of 740 km per hour . |
| 6 | That must have gone on a lot |
| 7 | Ralph and Bernie must have gone to a lot of trouble to set him up . |
| 8 | Penrose 's theorem had shown that any collapsing star must end in a singularity ; the time-reversed argument showed that any Friedmann-like expanding universe must have begun with a singularity . |
| 9 | He must have started as a joke , to indulge his love of singing and of local folk music . |
| 10 | I could n't blame her , I must have looked like a platoon of Japanese snipers behind all that foliage . |
| 11 | In the gloom he must have looked like a ghost . |
| 12 | Travelling by bus at night in winter could be a chilling experience , so my mother made me anklets from the fur cuffs of an old coat ; these stayed on by means of snap fasteners , and I must have looked like a poodle , but they provided considerable comfort . |
| 13 | He thought that he had heard the house door close : McAllister must have left for a stroll , or perhaps even a visit up West , and it would be safe for him to leave the surgery where he had been reading Mr H. G. Wells 's scientific romance The Time Machine , and return to the comfort of his armchair . |
| 14 | They were sometimes accompanied by Wordsworth 's daughter Dora , who to some extent replaced Dorothy after her illness ; at times this must have seemed like a re-enactment of the earlier years , when Dorothy , William and Coleridge were inseparable . |
| 15 | The patience and persistence which you must have learned as a fisherman would result in pulling us through . |
| 16 | HARRISON Ford must have wished for a second take during a speech in London to promote his new film , The Fugitive , based on the hit 1960 television series starring David Janssen . |
| 17 | They must have assembled in a side street and now they were here , mostly young and apparently in fairly good mood . |
| 18 | Yet thousands of men , fathers of families , must have lain with a prostitute at some time , and caught this disease . |
| 19 | Clovis 's death must have come as a relief to Gundobad . |
| 20 | Hardy 's decision , in 1862 , to further his career in London must have come as a surprise to his family and employer — perhaps even to himself since he set out with a return ticket in his pocket . |
| 21 | For several years , we were twins , which must have come as a surprise to my mother , then slowly she fell behind as I pulled ahead , year after year . |
| 22 | Whatever one may argue for the value of research findings which ensue from this technique ( and certainly the publication of Down and Out must have come as a revelation to many people in present-day Britain ) the question must be squarely faced as to whether the social researcher has a right to deceive and manipulate people for research purposes . |
| 23 | At the age of 63 , Friedman seems in better technical shape than ever , and to many of the younger members of his substantial audience , these performances must have come as a revelation . |
| 24 | The coypu-control man must have come on a weekday , though , and it was with that hangover that Adam associated his coming . |
| 25 | To Leeds the news must have come like a blow from a steam hammer . |
| 26 | A fire blazed in a huge hearth beneath an oak lintel which , to judge by its thickness , must have come from a tree already at least a hundred years old when it was felled to help build this ancient building . |
| 27 | Sooner or later water must have acted as a transporter for dissolved materials . |
| 28 | ‘ You must have put in a lot of hard work . ’ |
| 29 | They must have driven on a while , circled back and approached the stretch of road from the direction of the fields on foot . |
| 30 | A man must have lurked in a car parked between two lamp standards , noting the time of arrival , the minute the curtains had been drawn at her bedroom , the second their shadows met and intertwined behind the window . |