Example sentences of "[pron] must have taken [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I must have taken leave of my senses ! ’ |
| 2 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 3 | An earlier Neville connection is implied by the marriage of Roger 's sister Alice to Thomas Metcalfe , a match which must have taken place by the mid 1460s . |
| 4 | An earlier Neville connection is implied by the marriage of Roger 's sister Alice to Thomas Metcalfe , a match which must have taken place by the mid 1460s . |
| 5 | They were all there except Christine , even Barry Morse who must have taken time off from his job , presumably to lend support to his wife and the family . |
| 6 | You must have taken leave of your senses ! b . |
| 7 | ‘ You must have taken leave of your senses indeed ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You must have taken leave of your senses , ’ Paul cried . |
| 9 | God , she must have taken leave of her senses . |
| 10 | And when she came home she said , Do you know what she said she must have taken ages she said to put that cord through that er beam , she said . |
| 11 | Since Kirsty had been feeling quite confident before the operation and yet that feeling had disappeared immediately after surgery , it seemed that something must have taken place in the theatre itself . |
| 12 | Irina 's brother was a member of the Navy Board , and he must have taken pleasure in sowing any seed which was likely to grow into a further barrier between father and son . |
| 13 | It must have taken years and years — ? |
| 14 | It must have taken Wilson years of research . |