Example sentences of "must [be] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must be getting on for seventy , and we need a younger head groom . ’ |
| 2 | It was not that unpleasant memories were evoked , for these were always with him , his existence was inseparable from that old bitterness , but that a sight of the house , even the glimpse of a photograph , revived the precise feelings he had had — why , it must be getting on for eleven years ago . |
| 3 | How , he wondered , did one set about finding a woman , last heard of in Cornwall , whose surname was Carrow — that is , if she had n't remarried — and a child who he supposed must be getting on for four . |
| 4 | ‘ Ooh , well , let's see now , I s'pose it must be getting on for six weeks , now , ’ Cyril said . |
| 5 | It must be getting on for eleven years now since … ’ |
| 6 | And it must be , I 've been up here twenty-three years , it must be getting on for thirty years old that teapot and er I could n't have afforded that money for that stainless steel teapot , as those days , but I had it with my divi . |
| 7 | But he must n't forget that it was a great occasion for old Willis , who must be getting on for sixty-live , ready to take the knock any day now . |
| 8 | Her dad must be getting on for seventy she looks as though |
| 9 | Well you must be getting on for a hundred , because I believe you were in the Boar War , were n't you ? |
| 10 | And you must be getting on with your exciting adventures . |
| 11 | So we must be getting round to Sue 's question . |
| 12 | ‘ Must be getting back to Brigade H.Q , Sarge , ’ I remarked as I picked up my rifle and prepared to leave . |
| 13 | And Newton 's third law says , that your hand must be pushing up on it . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , Russia , and to a lesser degree Red China , must be looking on with considerable satisfaction at the indecision which is being displayed by the United States as regards her future treatment of Japan . |
| 15 | Even laundering the figures in Warlow 's favour , only one out of every 28 newborn planets will have any effect on us , so planets must be popping out from somewhere every century or so . |
| 16 | I 'm sure rumours must be flying about like wildfire . ’ |
| 17 | No , she must be working out of the Kingston office cos we do n't |
| 18 | She must be rubbing off on him . |
| 19 | As Kaurismaki 's associate Mikko Piela describes it with equally characteristic , and refreshingly literate , hyperbole : ‘ THE MATCH FACTORY GIRL evokes such feelings of sorrow , pity and horror that the dusty bones of Aristotle himself must be clattering out of sheer cathartic pleasure . |
| 20 | He must be rolling round , cos he was the maths master , he must be rolling round in his grave , as people say percentage , because he if you said percentage he yelled at you , Percentage of what ? |
| 21 | He must be walking up to the |
| 22 | They must be crying out for men like you . |
| 23 | They must be coming up to er rush time |
| 24 | Must be coming up for school dinner-time . ’ |
| 25 | Well it 's funny because erm , when we saw Ken the other day he was saying that erm his niece rang him up and erm she 's er she 's gon na be in Crewe this weekend for a friend 's wedding and , I think she must be coming up with some , some other girl as well , because the two of them , he said , I 'm taking two young ladies out on Sunday for lunch where 's a good place for a Sunday lunch you see ? |
| 26 | I thought she must be coming down in a moment . |
| 27 | Something must be going on in the black box labelled ‘ consumer ’ . |
| 28 | The philosophy that if it goes down in the US it must be going up in Europe has meant that Smurfit is looking to Europe as its main engine for growth in the months to come , when it must decide how to spend the $1bn cash raised from the recent financial restructuring with Morgan Stanley . |
| 29 | I use to drink scrumpy you know , you know , I , I mean , I must be going back before your time , you know , a long time , you know , we 're talking about drinking scrumpy in the thirties and forty and fifties , when scrumpy was scrumpy and when we were glad of it Oh , I use to love the old scrumpy . |
| 30 | They must be going out of their minds with worry . ’ |