Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] must [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , when he heard my answers to his questions , he realized I must be alive , and he could not hide his astonishment . |
| 2 | I am hard hearted I am self centred I must be soft . |
| 3 | But after a while he began to accept that what I told him must be true . |
| 4 | She heard the hum of pleasant voices , and guessed she must be last down . |
| 5 | I decided you must be hard , self-seeking , ambitious to the point of ruthlessness , and immoral to boot . ’ |
| 6 | She said this so seriously that Oliver decided it must be true . |
| 7 | But I knew I must be careful , careful . |
| 8 | I thought I must be wrong , because kindness did n't go with what he was doing . |
| 9 | The high heels of Mrs Stych 's new , mink-trimmed bootees were now sinking into the Frizzell lawn and threatening to snap at any moment , so she knew she must be quick . |
| 10 | Then he said , ‘ Oh , er , I thought you must be busy . |
| 11 | They thought she must be daft . ’ |
| 12 | At first I thought she must be mad . |
| 13 | When Izzie did not come to fluff out Gabriel 's hair and tie the laces of his shirt before the performance , he thought she must be angry with him and he was sorry . |
| 14 | The windscreen was full of horrible light , and I knew we must be crashing because I could see the wheel spinning in John 's hand … ’ |
| 15 | I answered my own question , and said that I thought we must be middle class , and reflected very precisely in that moment on my mother 's black waisted coat with the astrakhan collar , and her high-heeled black suede shoes , her lipstick . |
| 16 | Dawn 's words echoed in her ears , and for all their vindictiveness she knew they must be true . |
| 17 | Melanie wondered if they would go to church , to Midnight Mass , because she , in a muddled way , thought they must be religious if they believed so firmly in Hell . |
| 18 | Gina thought they must be valuable and she 's probably right ; but she 's puzzled as to why her father kept them shut away and never mentioned them . ’ |
| 19 | While I had been in there there 'd been a day or two of beautiful weather which we did n't know much about inside , although there was one big window where we used to go and sit and have a smoke — the ones who were getting better — and you could see a big tree from there , so you sort of felt it must be nice outside , and the people who came in from outside were n't so muffled up . |
| 20 | She swallowed and knew he must be able to feel the betraying movement . |
| 21 | She was too embarrassed to look at David , but she knew he must be amused . |
| 22 | IT DID NOT hurt , so he knew it must be serious . |
| 23 | I knew it must be good because my neighbour turned out to be a local millionaire who brought his whole family along every week . |
| 24 | Although she knew it must be tiny in comparison with the rest of the City , it felt enormous , and it was the feelings that counted . |
| 25 | I knew it must be wrong , because afterwards he made me promise not to tell anyone about it , not even Mamma . |
| 26 | In fact , I thought it must be all finished with because he , he was quite talkative about it during the summer |
| 27 | He thought it must be one of the maids with some food sent up by Claudia . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , but I thought it must be some arch or something that everybody had to stoop to go through . |
| 29 | She thought it must be some busybody inspector-of-something-or-other . |
| 30 | When he saw me running he thought he must be late , and he started to run , too . |