Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] must [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew it was n't going to be easy , as it was so very much his world , but I realized I must do it soon , because the longer I delayed , the longer I felt I would go on doing so — like facing up to the ashes . |
| 2 | They sent me to Cambridge for a couple of terms — that 's where I first realized I must run — I do n't want to blaspheme about one of your famous institutions so I sha n't tell you the name of my college though you 're longing to know — the girls in their bed-sitters , the cocoa-drinking , the tittle-tattle , the atmosphere of heartiness or domesticity in the combination-room — But , my dear , it must be getting late and here I am telling you things that you know as well as I do . ’ |
| 3 | I found I must die . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The man who used it must have thought so . ’ |
| 5 | I would n't have omitted him three hours before , but now it seemed I must face up to the situation as it was without him . |
| 6 | He believed she must have received some of his mailings by now as she was in an even worse temper than usual . |
| 7 | He believed she must have sent him the bill personally , wanting to meet him as much as he wanted to meet her . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ As you were working and you run a business , I assumed you must leave him with a babyminder . ’ |
| 10 | Pitch-black buildings loomed so close above the narrow streets it seemed they must touch overhead . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | BR rules stipulated he must stop immediately and notify the signalman . |
| 14 | During a match when a player goes down injured he must make the same decision but this time in the thick of the action with the crowd chanting and the referee looking at his watch . |
| 15 | Minutes later , when Grant estimated he must have covered a good quarter of a mile , he again saw a grey wall barring his passage in the torch beam up ahead . |
| 16 | I assumed it must have been Eric calling . |
| 17 | ‘ We agreed she must have been talking to someone … ’ |
| 18 | Staring at her reflection , she realised she must have lost weight . |
| 19 | After several minutes had passed without her finding a familiar landmark , Luce realised she must have gone wrong somewhere and tried to double back . |
| 20 | Benny realised she must fight Sean Walsh . |
| 21 | By the time they reached the railway station , Dot realized she must have had time to get herself straight inside , for she seemed almost cheery again . |
| 22 | He realized she must have nothing on . |
| 23 | She claimed she must get her breath back . |
| 24 | I wondered where all that confetti came from ; knowing Mum I guessed she must have supplied it , but none of us children were given any . |
| 25 | Wheelchair-bound Mrs Betty Richardson and her husband , Jim , of Newton Aycliffe , claimed they must give up shopping in Darlington after 20 years . |
| 26 | We reckoned it must have been the ‘ reason for our visit ’ on our visa — to visit the Crown Prince Abdullah Abdul Aziz . |
| 27 | She reckoned it must take all of eight or nine metric minutes per person . |
| 28 | She guessed he must get tired of his easy conquests . |
| 29 | I figured she must have been a masochist . |
| 30 | The spectacle of the principal apologist for Official Nationality biting the hand that fed him must have convinced many doubters that the regime which Alexander II had inherited was intolerable . |