Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] must [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think the first time they 'd felt they must accept an honest mistake . |
| 2 | He began to think it must have been his imagination when a motorbike zoomed across their path , clouding the corridor with smoke . |
| 3 | Until , in the end , Carrie began to think she must have made it all up , that she had just dreamed all those things he had said . |
| 4 | As she talked Eva revealed it was not just that she was coming back to God , but that she had realised she must give her whole self to him for the ministry . |
| 5 | Some of the rebel leaders , notably Litster , may have appreciated their military weakness , because they attempted to involve members of the gentry in the revolt , and although they had little support of this nature , the very fact that they hoped to obtain it must argue against an interpretation of the revolt simply in class terms . |
| 6 | Everyone had said he must stop and examine this Dreadful rock poised on a fingerpad of ground high above the valley like a Damoclean judgement . |
| 7 | She had said he must marry only so as not to disappoint his mother ; but should he come to her one day and say he was about to marry someone , that would assuredly beat her into the ground . |
| 8 | She seemed pulled out , elongated by it , so that her shoes , her new bronze slippers with rosettes on the toes that Aunt Emily had said she must keep hidden at all times if possible since legs and feet were highly indecent , seemed far further away than the five and a half feet she knew separated them from the crown of her head . |
| 9 | As for Louise and Miriam , they had decided they must stay in the Residency in order to lend their assistance at the hospital , where the dispensers and orderlies could no longer cope . |
| 10 | She had decided what must have happened to him , why he was taking so long to return , and why she could never recall his face . |
| 11 | No , their Lordships had decided she must make one more voyage , back to America . |
| 12 | There she had found her husband still snoring on her cot , and she had stretched out on his ; but sleep had n't come , and long before dawn she had decided she must leave the camp at once . |
| 13 | I think , you know , the erm the Tourist Boards have taken the industry by the scruff of the neck and said look you must have standards , you must have quality , and you must be price competitive . |
| 14 | Whoever had called him must have been someone very powerful to make the head of the KGB jump like that . |
| 15 | The fact that she had to send you must have told you that , yet you came here without admitting your relationship to her . |
| 16 | But for the past year she 's faced the very real possibility of losing the Inn that 's been her life because Whitbreads decided to sell it off along with other pubs to meet the demands of the Monopolies Commission , which had demanded it must get rid of half its tied houses . |
| 17 | She had known it must come , and soon , particularly after the day of the wedding . |
| 18 | She had known she must face Adamus , or the idea of Adamus , if she came back . |
| 19 | I was surprised to see that the recording venue was good old Abbey Road Studios : there is such a prominent background rumble that I had assumed it must have been some city church . |
| 20 | Now that really did astound her , for she had assumed he must know , and that was why he was so convinced of her guilt . |
| 21 | When something does n't go as we had hoped we must try to see the good that comes out of it in the end . |
| 22 | Younis explained that whatever had happened we must eat . |
| 23 | He said , on his death-bed , that they could bury his body but when his flesh had rotted they must dig up his skull and keep it in the house or some dreadful disaster would come . |
| 24 | Therefore he had taken what must have seemed an obvious step to protect himself . |
| 25 | To throw over that stability she had insisted they must have . |
| 26 | To his absolute delight the first trap had held what must have been a seven pound salmon , plus a couple of mullet which he had ignored . |
| 27 | The painter told Marama that if he wanted to live he must go to Rarotonga and receive treatment . |
| 28 | Instead he told them that if they intended to stay they must help . |
| 29 | I just wanted to say it must have been awful . ’ |