Example sentences of "[to-vb] what [pers pn] must [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no easy way to answer the bitterness in her voice , and Julia remembered what David had said about his mother 's probable feelings during the war and tried to imagine what it must have been like for Mrs Wallington , stuck in Scotland , knowing only a little but guessing all too much of what was happening to her own country — and to her two sons . |
| 2 | If one assesses the gains and losses surrounding the admission of an elderly resident to any strange environment then you can begin to identify what you must strive to achieve if you will go anywhere near compensating for these losses . |
| 3 | I tried , for the first time in my life , to understand what it must have been like then , under tsarist rule , where people , peasants , were no more than livestock , to be dealt with by the aristocracy as they saw fit . |
| 4 | At least one bookseller remarked to me that so many ex-library books had come on to the market in the last few years that he had begun to realise what it must have been like when the great monastic libraries were being dispersed . |
| 5 | The junior recruits sit on the edge of the parade ground to witness the parade and to learn what they must achieve after a further four weeks ' training . |
| 6 | Cuvier had reconstructed extinct mammals , but here the analogies with living elephants , bears and rhinoceroses were close enough for nobody to doubt what they must have looked like . |
| 7 | In a sense it is all too easy in retrospect to see what it must have been that hurried Elizabeth to that early grave . |
| 8 | Müller made soothing noises while Eloise moved seats to comfort her and then he settled back to plan what he must do . |
| 9 | I tried to picture what she must have been like , the young woman who had diligently allowed her life to fade away working at this solitary chore . |