Example sentences of "must [vb infin] [verb] [pers pn] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must try to prevent him from erring in the first place ; easier said than done ! |
| 2 | They must have contracted them from bacteria transported from the teeming insanitary slums on the other side of town . |
| 3 | He tells us — largely as he must have heard it from the horse 's mouth — the history of programmed machines , the development of McCarthy 's own interest in combining human common sense with the brute number-crunching force of early computers , and how this led to his own contributions , perhaps the best-known of which is the invention of LISP , now the standard programming language of artificial intelligence . |
| 4 | My friend must have heard it from him , and after you left remembered and telephoned me . |
| 5 | You must have moved them from up there . |
| 6 | And we must have caught it from there . |
| 7 | I was surprised he knew those words ; he must have acquired them from his wife . |
| 8 | Then suddenly she heard the sound of someone coming , and she put aside her sadness of heart , to realise that Lubor , perhaps on the lookout for her , must have spotted her from a window somewhere . |
| 9 | He must have rescued me from the canal , because my clothes were wet through , so were his … ’ |
| 10 | When people asked Mrs Maugham where her daughter got her brains from , she would sniff and shrug her shoulders and say , as though disclaiming a vice or a disease , " Well , she certainly did n't get them from me , she must have got them from him , I suppose " — a remark which Clara took years to place , in all its ambiguity , for the truth was that Mrs Maugham had done well at school , she had shone and prospered , and the evidence of her distant triumphs still lay around the house in the form of inscribed Sunday school prizes . |
| 11 | Adam must have got it from him , Lewis sometimes thought , or perhaps ( he much later and very bitterly thought ) a similar pedantry in Adam was among the things Hilbert liked about him . |
| 12 | He must have got it from another sick dog . " |
| 13 | She must have got it from the room where I keep my guns . |
| 14 | He must have got it from someone . |