Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] must have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah yeah yeah but erm , oh I do n't know I must have , must find those I do n't think Joan 's taken them . |
| 2 | Now I realise I must have looked awful . |
| 3 | I ca n't imagine why you 're refusing to acknowledge it , but there 's no denying you must have been there . ’ |
| 4 | Very big and brave they must have looked in their new NATO camouflage suits , and absolutely dead they were when they were taken out of the vans . |
| 5 | ‘ First you claim that the family is collaborating with the kidnappers , then you say they must have used their influence to have me sent here . |
| 6 | I say they must have got the knowledge from him somehow , by what manner of deception I know no more than you . |
| 7 | Equally clearly once the doorway is installed it must have precise dimensions . |
| 8 | ‘ The man who used it must have thought so . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ And if he 's got things like your class take for granted you jump right on him , say he must have nicked them . |
| 10 | ‘ If he 's got things like your class take for granted , ’ the girl had said , ‘ you say he must have nicked them . ’ |
| 11 | He says me must have had his reasons . |
| 12 | Looking back on it , I 've decided I must have been clear round the bend ! |
| 13 | ‘ I 've decided I must have schizoid tendencies . |
| 14 | J. says I must have eaten at least three of the pounds myself , but that 's just his usual exaggeration . |
| 15 | And as for being six pound up , she says I must have short-changed someone . |
| 16 | That made me feel I must have done something to deserve this . |
| 17 | So okay I have n't seen I must have a tiny little book . |
| 18 | He believed she must have received some of his mailings by now as she was in an even worse temper than usual . |
| 19 | He believed she must have sent him the bill personally , wanting to meet him as much as he wanted to meet her . |
| 20 | This means that if you hate , say , cottage cheese or liver , do not feel that you simply must include these foods in your diet because you have heard that these things are good for you , or because a diet sheet says you must have them . |
| 21 | Richard Buckley , a retired funeral director stated , ‘ Nothing says you must have a funeral director to carry out a funeral — nothing says you have to take a body to the crematorium in a hearse . |
| 22 | I mean in the excitement of buying a car you 're not going to read the small print , you 're not going to read the little bit that says you must have the oil changed every three thousand miles and unless you do it within two hundred and fifty miles of that and not only that , you must send evidence of the service by recorded delivery to you . |
| 23 | It was hard to be certain but she was pretty sure he had n't , and she imagined she must have assumed he was on duty at the hospital . |
| 24 | I imagined they must have been bold generals like Arsenio and Osvaldo , pathfinders like X. Ray , stalwarts like the Corporal , boys as eager and facile as my woodchucks . |
| 25 | The ugly weal across his throat told its own story of why he was unable to say what had happened , although the gamekeeper believed he must have been swept from his horse by the low-lying branch of a tree . |
| 26 | But on reflection , she had realized that no one had taken the friendship with the USSR wholly seriously , and now the realization of how much worry it must have caused the Führer and ‘ the greatness of his diplomacy ’ made her feel ‘ quite small ’ . |
| 27 | But once I 'd given them to him I never saw them again so I imagine he must have burnt them . |
| 28 | She says he must have been released early , and she 's dreading him coming to see her and demanding his parents ’ address . |
| 29 | He says it must have been a little before the sixth hour when Aldhelm parted from him at Preston to go on to the ferry . |
| 30 | I ca n't be sure what my face looked like when I opened it and saw Maureen on the doorstep , but I imagine it must have had a grin on it from ear to ear . |