Example sentences of "[vb past] they must [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pitch-black buildings loomed so close above the narrow streets it seemed they must touch overhead . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Wheelchair-bound Mrs Betty Richardson and her husband , Jim , of Newton Aycliffe , claimed they must give up shopping in Darlington after 20 years . |
| 4 | When they were all sitting cross-legged in the corridor , huddled in their blankets , staring wide-eyed at the two tough looking armed figures he realised they must present , Grant called in one last time to Springfield . |
| 5 | He realised they must have been in the accident . |
| 6 | The EABA did not want the British fighters eliminating other nations ’ boxers , so ruled they must meet each other first before the survivor boxes against other European nations . |
| 7 | There was another boat not far ahead , going the same way , so that every lock was ‘ against ’ them , which meant they must empty each one before they could enter and must then fill it again . |
| 8 | This meant they must have had a hired car to take them to the airport or have gone by tube . |
| 9 | He had wondered how the KGB would react to the Reznichenko Memorandum ; now he saw they must have been analysing the pattern long before it had occurred to him . |
| 10 | When they 'd heard that name , they knew they must take the place . |
| 11 | She found she hardly cared and when Mr Browning , with some evidence of concern for her , said that he feared they must take Ferdinando to Rome almost as soon as they all returned to Florence in October , she simply nodded . |
| 12 | Melanie thought they must belong to Uncle Philip . |
| 13 | Rachaela thought they must look a very normal family group : Emma the fond grandmother ; Rachaela the mother with her black-haired baby . |
| 14 | At first , Topaz thought they must have quarrelled but , as the stillness was never broken , she concluded it was yet another odd custom practised by the strange women who surrounded her . |
| 15 | The cavern was so huge that Benny thought they must have hollowed out the entire mountain . |
| 16 | She thought they must have looked ridiculous , two people over thirty surreptitiously clawing at each other through layer upon layer of raincoat , wool and cotton . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought they must have had a quarrel , ’ Brand said , and I had the impression he was n't heartbroken about it . ’ |
| 18 | For a second she thought they must have turned the other way , and then she saw them again , riding through the trees , the sunlight striking them before they moved off into the shadows . |
| 19 | She thought they must like singing very much since they went to the chapel so often . |
| 20 | He said they must meet later , she must come and eat with him in his room and he would get a bottle of wine . |
| 21 | There was a pause while Sara collected herself , and then she said they must go back and do the accounts . |
| 22 | He refused and said they must leave together . |
| 23 | Master Thomas said they must have been looking for people , not things , and thought you should be warned , so … ’ |
| 24 | There was no sign of the girls , so I supposed they must have gone out again after their high tea . |
| 25 | He was not able to deduce what these purposes might be , but the persistence of a third sector suggested they must exist . |
| 26 | The enemy horsemen were silhouetted on the southern skyline and Sharpe suspected they must have been trailing him ever since he had emerged from the trees . |