Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] must have " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'm to solve this wretched murder case I must have something that belonged to MacQuillan . |
| 2 | For example one notices over many years of you know having teaching I must have taught hundreds now in different class groups , ca n't help noticing that although you 're the same , subject is the same , the syllabus is the same , the reading list is the same , the room is the same , the time of day may be the same , but the groups are completely different . |
| 3 | At the back of my mind I must have hoped that if I telephoned him in advance , Helmut would help in this way . |
| 4 | Well I 'll see if I can the te telly I must have a . |
| 5 | I had a sort of despair for days afterwards , thinking how much of their rotten , pretentious blood I must have in me . |
| 6 | There was eagerness and excitement in his voice at once , echoing the emotion which must have been obvious in Hornblower 's tone — Hornblower took notice of it , and as he buckled his waistband he reaffirmed his resolution to be more careful how he spoke , for he must regain his reputation as a silent hero . |
| 7 | He would have relished the confusion which must have arisen . |
| 8 | ( b ) If he is dishonest by the first test : " The jury must consider whether the defendant himself must have realised that what he was doing was by those standards dishonest . " |
| 9 | There were limits to the concentration of troops because of transportation , food supplies , and manoeuvring on the battlefield which must have been intuitively evident to any ancient general . |
| 10 | They develop basically because the velocity of a stream diminishes fairly rapidly at its mouth , a condition which must have been accentuated during the Post-glacial rise of sea level : deposition starts , probably aided by flocculation of the finer particles where the effect of salt water is felt , progradation ensues , which further reduces the gradient and so increases deposition by a positive feedback process . |
| 11 | Then out to his bed in a loft over the cowshed , leaving the family to draw in together in a cosy , alien-excluding unit around the flaming and hissing timber , to lie and smoke by the light of a candle and think o better days in the orphanage and wonder in unembittered fashion — for he had been happy there — about the mother who had abandoned him and the even shadowier lover who must have abandoned her . |
| 12 | when you look at the massive investment in the Channel Tunnel rail system , private sector for the tunnel and massive public sector investment in the rail facilities and depots around the country — that 's the balanced long-term future we must have . |
| 13 | Oh yeth , he said , with a name like the Thex Pithtolth we must have you . |
| 14 | Nearly four years have passed since The Satanic Verses was declared blasphemous by the late Ayatollah Khomeini , and during this long period of internal exile there must have been times when Rushdie , experiencing deep changes and wrenches in the soul , has wondered at the prescience of those words . |
| 15 | Obviously , all ministers must have reasonable discretion in such matters , but if they depart from a clear , professional recommendation they must have good reason . |
| 16 | ‘ When they found a policeman at the pay-off they must have panicked , ’ Major Volpi had remarked to Di Leonardo when they arrived together at the scene in a Carabinieri helicopter . |
| 17 | On the geographical point , if a party is to secure a seat it must have the best part of a quota of votes after transfers at the end of the count . |
| 18 | Claudia had gone away with him , and to Myra 's romantic mind it must have been a foregone conclusion that they would become lovers and live happily ever after . |
| 19 | I am not certain of the date when the Navy finally abandoned the general use of hammocks , but to my mind it must have been as retrogressive a decision as that taken when abandoning the tot of ‘ Nelson 's blood ’ at 12 noon every day ! |
| 20 | The family needed help to discuss these unhappy times with Darren and understand the immense distress and confusion he must have felt . |
| 21 | To take the photograph he must have stood on the edge of the wood , under the beech hedge which bounded it perhaps . |
| 22 | ‘ Looking back , what he said is really strange , bearing in mind he must have been murdered a little while later . ’ |
| 23 | The fundamental issue is this that if the Labour Party is to remain a party of labour it must have as an integral part the trade union movement , it 's as simple as that , colleagues ! |
| 24 | He also felt angry , very angry , because of the effect it must have had on Celia . |
| 25 | Brand new — in first class condition it must have cost many times that to make , being in heavy tin and having a lid with collapsible handle that turned it into a frying pan . |
| 26 | In its heyday it must have been a good little vehicle , but now it was definitely finished . |
| 27 | Here was another aspect of the Kipling story which must have appealed to the student of F. H. Bradley , the Eliot who himself wrote on ‘ Degrees of Reality ’ . |
| 28 | The request was refused on the grounds that the Masai needed the land — a response which must have confirmed Anderson 's dim view of the administration . |
| 29 | I have , for example , a spare traverse of the Skye Ridge which must have high bargaining value and could be swopped for the Mamores , the Grey Corries , the Aonachs or similar . |
| 30 | Built as a Victorian workhouse , it had a grey , forbidding look which must have deterred all but the neediest applicants . |