Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] [pers pn] must [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Low-spirited , disappointed that she must forgo the festivities which always marked the twelfth day of Christmas , she wept copiously and bewailed her ill-fortune to such an extent that it was feared she would increase the severity of the illness . |
| 2 | But then she found that she must have been without noticing , for she discovered that there was writing everywhere which she could read without even trying . |
| 3 | She had n't thought about how much of her hour remained , until bells started ringing , and she realized that they must have gone for her . |
| 4 | This confused Benny at first , until she realized that they must have been going deeper into the complex , while Froebe would have assumed she was making for the outside . |
| 5 | With the Congress leadership in jail , the Round Table conference which met in London in November , at Irwin 's initiative , to discuss constitutional advance , came to nothing , and Irwin realized that he must forego the pleasure of seeing the troublemakers in jail for the hope of constitutional development along the lines he had in mind for India . |
| 6 | Charles realized that he must abandon the attempt to re-assert the Forest rights enjoyed by his medieval predecessors . |
| 7 | She realized that he must know exactly what was running through her mind . |
| 8 | By this stage of the war , Stirling , with his usual grasp of the wider strategic picture , realized that he must plan for the future of the SAS Regiment . |
| 9 | At the time I thought little more about it , but later I realized that it must have been caused by some powerful pain-killing drug . |
| 10 | Stephen agreed that they must tell Mrs Blakey . |
| 11 | They agreed that they must seal off this inner courtyard and all within it , and sift through the trapped folk . |
| 12 | Freddie the Nark was a shrewd character , he thought , and from what he knew of the man Billy realised that he must tread very carefully . |
| 13 | He still smarted from his treatment at the military prison , but realised that he must try to control his violent nature if he was to amount to anything . |
| 14 | Clearly , he realised that he must uphold the papacy even in the light of Hadrian 's opposition to imperial equality . |
| 15 | With a sinking heart , she also realised that she must go on living with the Ward family , at least for now . |
| 16 | ‘ Where 's Beuno ? ’ asked Betty casually , and Lydia realised that she must have been silently asking that all the way from the farmhouse . |
| 17 | As his commentary stopped I realised that she must have completed her purchases and was very likely surveying the room for somewhere to sit . |
| 18 | A second or two later though and she realised that she must have been mistaken , for his look was suddenly more mocking than anything when , ‘ In a word , ’ he lobbed back at her , ‘ fantastic . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm not married ! ’ she retorted , and for a few moments as her world righted itself and she realised that she must have momentarily got her wires crossed , because he had already told her he was not married , she realised too that , up until a moment ago , he must have thought her — Mrs Barnaby Stewart . |
| 20 | At that point , she realised that she must take a more positive attitude . |
| 21 | He would not talk about it , and you knew not to ask more , but you realised that it must have been the time in his life when he most resembled himself . |
| 22 | He gave France stronger armed forces , insisted that she be respected on the world stage and believed that she must rely on her own resources for survival . |
| 23 | Wheatstone 's work in telegraphy seemed to show that electricity travelled about as fast as light , and Faraday believed that it must go just as fast ; he also believed that gravity must be analogous to other attractive forces , and take time for its propagation , though there was no evidence for this . |
| 24 | All of these meetings required careful preparation and I was relieved when my election team agreed with my general tactics , although they added that I must make myself available for private talks with any colleague who asked to see me . |
| 25 | As the political argument had developed , it seemed that he must fight Communism and Jewry together , sooner or later . |
| 26 | It seemed that it must take a long time for such peace to be broken . |
| 27 | Nenna had forgotten about Gordon , or rather she assumed that he must have gone away , but he had not . |
| 28 | Charlie assumed that he must fall with every pace he took , as he watched the lieutenant treat the German wire as just another hurdle , before running on towards the enemy trenches as if they were the finishing line in some race being held at his public school . |
| 29 | I seemed to recall that in the past when we 'd met we 'd got on reasonably well , so I assumed that it must have been something that Jennifer had told you that had turned you against me , or , failing that , that you were just embarrassed at having to work with your sister 's ex-fiancé . ’ |
| 30 | The essay , on ‘ The Dangers of Smoking ’ , had cost Hank a number of Sundays of hard work , and he estimated that he must have smoked at least eight packs of cigarettes while writing it , but to his astonishment it had won him a hundred dollars . |