Example sentences of "must [vb infin] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I looked then at first I could n't see , it was all — you know — black like inside my eyes , but I knew they were open and I could hear the kids yelling — and when I got up he was lying on the sofa , snoring — he must 've just dropped me and let me where I lie- ’ She stopped and Clare sat quietly waiting . |
| 2 | Should you ever possess a whole ham on the bone , you must know how to carve it properly , otherwise you will waste a great deal of meat and subsequently be eating ham soup for ages . |
| 3 | You are bone and wood , Grandmother , so you must know how to save us . |
| 4 | The child must know how to win it back . |
| 5 | Now he must decide how to use it . |
| 6 | ‘ You must try not to let her worry . |
| 7 | As they launched a follow-up operation to Mr Major 's fight-back speech to Scottish Tories at Edinburgh on Friday , Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley warned that the Government must take seriously claims it is out of touch with what ‘ ordinary people ’ are thinking . |
| 8 | Hywel , supposed Lydia , must have briefly courted her , have put on a suit , taken her out to a café , been moderately gay . |
| 9 | The long birdie putt Beck had earlier holed for an eagle three at the 13th had been a turning point , but for Norman , who does not normally play the week before the Masters , this must have also given him encouragement . |
| 10 | I mean I had them in my erm handbag and I think I must have just chucked them out this morning |
| 11 | You must have just missed him . ’ |
| 12 | Well we just have , must have just missed them . |
| 13 | ‘ He must have just missed you , then , ’ Mrs Porter concluded . |
| 14 | I must have just left her standing on the steps . |
| 15 | ‘ But for you to wish , you must have already known her . |
| 16 | She must have automatically put it away when she found the door already open . |
| 17 | At eighteen , he decides that some freakish wind must have mistakenly transplanted him to France : he was born , he declares , to be Emperor of Cochin-China , to smoke 36-fathom pipes , to have 6,000 wives and 1,400 catamites ; but instead , displaced by this meteorological hazard , he is left with immense , insatiable desires , fierce boredom , and an attack of the yawns . |
| 18 | Mr but you must have therefore suggested it to them then that er the service charges needed to be updated once a year |
| 19 | Must have how did you do that ? |
| 20 | Even when I played through proxies he must have still known it was me , because one day , 'bout the end of my second year on Mars , I woke up with the blues just like you did . |
| 21 | He was so touched he felt he must go immediately to find her , however angry she and her family might be with him . |
| 22 | It has been said before but we must go on saying it until it happens : call a referundum and give us a vote . |
| 23 | I must go now to pick him up from school . ’ |
| 24 | Soon those eruptive , blinding spasms of violence outside must reach in to snatch him , to tear him apart , and vaporise his fabric . |
| 25 | I must learn how to lift it right up into the air and keep it there . |
| 26 | You will not want to leave the needles in holding position so you must learn how to return them , since this will give you the reverse of the shaping . |
| 27 | Sarah is dead , and Abraham must find somewhere to bury her . |
| 28 | But I must say how said it made me to hear of the death of Walter the Gardener . |