Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] must [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gandhi was right : for the caste system to go everyone must clean latrines , and Untouchables must be seen as Harijans , Children of God . |
| 2 | Sue thinks someone must have loved me as Pete loves her . |
| 3 | Even with ground handling someone must take charge , but it may not be the pilot . |
| 4 | I REALISE everyone must have suffered from the saturation coverage of the election regardless of which party they support . |
| 5 | She was awakened in the mornings by cocks crowing , and it was so quiet in the evenings it seemed everyone must go to bed before dark . |
| 6 | He says everyone must look carefully at their cover notes and receipts and contact the insurers |
| 7 | The client expresses and believes in different , more rational interpretations — ‘ There is no rule which says somebody must love someone else , it would have been great if she 'd turned up but there are other girls I could ask out . |
| 8 | It is necessary to bring the wood to a moisture content which is nearly at equilibrium with the environment in which the timber is going to be used for if this is not done one must expect warping and shrinkage . |
| 9 | Ochs ( 1979c ) , in an extended discussion of the notion , notes " The scope of context is not easy to define one must consider the social and psychological world in which the language user operates at any given tame " ( p. 1 ) , " it includes minimally , language users ' beliefs and assumptions about temporal , spatial , and social settings ; prior , ongoing , and future actions ( verbal , non-verbal ) , and the state of knowledge and attentiveness of those participating in the social interaction in hand " ( p.5 ) . |
| 10 | When that has been ascertained one must determine the nature of the receipts as capital or income in accordance with the law of England . |
| 11 | Under this heading one must include a capacity for malevolent violence which , in Duiker 's rather chilling and non-committal words meant that where power was seized , people 's liberation committees were established and ‘ class enemies were punished ’ . |
| 12 | I have found one must speak slowly to people who live in the back streets of London . |
| 13 | I 'm very worried that my mouth may remain like this and feel something must have gone wrong when the tooth was removed . |
| 14 | At first Robert thought someone must have been hurt , but , a second later , the scream came again and he realized , with horror , that this was a cry of joy . |
| 15 | Thought somebody must have kicked him out of bed this morning . |
| 16 | I 've always believed one must respect the wishes of the dead . |
| 17 | I must say I was rather surprised , and thought something must have happened to him … |
| 18 | At the time I thought something must have been tampered with . |
| 19 | It 's true that no one came in , but I think someone must have lifted the latch and set the door ajar , and then after all drawn back and closed it again , hearing the voices within and not wanting to interrupt . |
| 20 | ‘ I think someone must have taken it and I can only ask them to bring it back to me , ’ said Mrs King , of Egglestone Way . |
| 21 | I think somebody must have told him . |
| 22 | This means one must avoid calling from another room , talking with your face in shadow , walking away before you have finished the sentence or calling something over your shoulder as you go out of the door . |
| 23 | And I think one must ask the simple question , what sort of mechanism does Locke have in mind ? |
| 24 | I think one must concentrate on marriage being essentially a question of mutual love and respect for each other … |
| 25 | To meet this point I think one must say that Bentham 's view was , in effect , that a right action must not only do more good than harm , but must also be such that neither the particular good it does , nor any other comparable good which might have substituted for it , could have been achieved at less cost in terms of harm done . |
| 26 | It would seen , as Dan wrote , ‘ I agree something must have happened to Charlie . |
| 27 | She said today : ‘ I lay there thinking someone must have got there before me . ’ |
| 28 | If ye keep trying something must come up . ’ |
| 29 | He said something must have happened and that — ’ Ashley moistened her lips ‘ — we 'd made love . |