Example sentences of "[pers pn] must have [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were plenty of people in the pub , and some of them must have overheard Dennis 's vicious mockery of our suggested alternatives , a walk on Shotover or Otmoor , for example . |
| 2 | I suppose I must have seen Christine Baldwin at Larksoken , probably in the canteen . |
| 3 | I must have seen De Mille 's Cleopatra a dozen times . |
| 4 | Then I must have lost consciousness . ’ |
| 5 | I must have startled Lord Hulton in mid fill because I heard a stifled " What … what … oh I say , how absolutely splendid ! " and a fragrant shower of tobacco cascaded from above . |
| 6 | I think I must have expressed dissatisfaction with the ‘ Poetry and Propaganda ’ article , because , like others that I had submitted to him up to that point , it was never to appear . |
| 7 | ‘ I must have met Mrs Marr at some point . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I think I must have left things a bit late ’ , was all he said . |
| 9 | This was just as well , because I must have looked pea green , and it did n't make me feel any better to watch Olive sitting up front chatting to the pilot and navigator , obviously having the time of her life . |
| 10 | I must have read Alison 's letter a dozen times that Monday , trying to decide what to do about it . |
| 11 | ‘ I must have taken leave of my senses ! ’ |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | And I cried , I must have cried Kate for two hours . |
| 14 | I must have wasted money on four or five that are hopeless . |
| 15 | How I must have bored Lou . |
| 16 | A private party in some high-rise apartment block ; looking down into the city from the forty-second floor , it was like being inside a radio , one of those old valve radios , and Jed almost told Creed what he thought , he almost blurted something Creed would n't even have understood , You must 've had radios thrown away some time , did n't you ? but the rush blew over and he was still staring down into the forest of lit buildings and he still had n't spoken . |
| 17 | You must 've had people passing through there , famous people who you can register , get them there , do , do this sort of thing . |
| 18 | A freak result — nerves — you must have written gibberish . |
| 19 | ‘ You must have received instructions . ’ |
| 20 | You must have lost count of the number of men who have seen your charms . ’ |
| 21 | You must have made plans , so do n't try to pretend you 're innocent . ’ |
| 22 | You must have noticed things out of the corner of your eye every day of your life — this is very similar , and the ability vanishes as soon as the eye focuses on one object . |
| 23 | You must have known people who remembered Bruckner — Paumgartner 's father had known him , Schalk … |
| 24 | ‘ You must have spent ages investigating . ’ |
| 25 | You must have taken leave of your senses ! b . |
| 26 | ‘ You must have taken leave of your senses indeed ! ’ |
| 27 | ‘ You must have taken leave of your senses , ’ Paul cried . |
| 28 | ‘ You must have worked magic on him — he 's always been so generous with his possessions , ’ he smiled , adding softly , ‘ as , of course , you must have discovered . ’ |
| 29 | You must have claimed dole for eight weeks or served on the Youth Training Scheme or be able to produce formal notice of redundancy . |
| 30 | You must have got wind of a name or two … ’ |