Example sentences of "must have [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doo I must 've crossed every fucking road |
| 2 | He must 've broken the other arm because the next day he had both arms in plaster . |
| 3 | You must 've got an extra sheet than me because one of the things I was moaning about this morning erm , maybe you 've got a different |
| 4 | And I 've got ta get some cornflakes today , my Gary must 've used the last few this morning . |
| 5 | ‘ All it tells us is he must 've had a foreign accent for them to give him a name like that . |
| 6 | Beautiful piece , one of the earliest I 've seen — but he must 've had a hard head , ‘ coz it broke . |
| 7 | For the young , there must have existed an inherited inborn enjoyment of life , for it can fairly safely be assumed that the pleasure experienced by them when at play , so obvious to modern man , must have been observable all through evolution . |
| 8 | You must have cared an awful lot about her to deliberately stay away from London because of her . |
| 9 | To qualify for an ultra race , runners must have completed a full marathon in under three hours 30 minutes . |
| 10 | Anyone interested in joining the course must have completed the retail management training scheme . |
| 11 | Magistrates sitting in the Juvenile Court must have completed the special training for the Juvenile Panel . |
| 12 | Two of the several names owned by another recipient had strayed into someone 's word-processor to create a further deserving don , the knowing reference to whom must have ruined the new year for more than one senior scholar . |
| 13 | The puppets are modelled on the famous illustrations by Tenniel — but Spitting Images must have influenced the formidable duchess and Tebbit-like cook and they stirred their pepper soup and sneezed . |
| 14 | I accepted his offer as Sir Galahad must have accepted the Holy Grail . |
| 15 | Must have stopped every ten yards between junctions seventeen and eighteen . |
| 16 | Looking back on that then , you must have lost a great number of colleagues and workmates that it must give you sort of mixed feelings looking back on it ? |
| 17 | She 'd never had a weight problem , of course , but she must have lost a few pounds over the past few days , because the waistband of the shorts she was wearing this morning — which she had purchased in New York only last Saturday — was already far looser than it had been . |
| 18 | This was followed by an interview between the President and Von Papen : and I can not help thinking that , during their conversation together , the former must have assured the latter that , so long as she could hold out against Allied demands , Turkey would abstain from hostile action towards Germany . |
| 19 | Of course it need not follow that separate assessment must have cast the younger members of every family as wage earners , any more than it did in other shires where traces of an emergent discrete labouring class were already manifest . |
| 20 | Exceptionally dashing in his polo clothes ( he was a ten-goal player ) , he must have struck an imposing figure at six foot four . |
| 21 | I must have missed the next few sentences . |
| 22 | Somehow I must have missed the original LPs ( or perhaps they were never released this side of the Atlantic ) , but here are Jean-Pierre Rampal , Isaac Stern , Yo-Yo Ma mixing it up with Japanese instrumentalists , playing traditional oriental music alongside pieces by Yamada , Miyagi , and Yoshizawa , amongst others . |
| 23 | She said she was sure I must have missed an English Christmas abroad all these years . |
| 24 | He did not reply to the letter I left on his desk until months later , by which time he must have overcome the initial shock my flight must surely have caused him . |
| 25 | Thus , at least one of the systems that children have been learning over the centuries in the ancestral forms of BV must have incorporated a three-way distinction of meet/meat/mate . |
| 26 | They must have recalled the prophetic remarks in 1829 of the Nez Perce elder Speckled Snake : ‘ I have listened to many talks from the great father . |
| 27 | But the fact that he must have discerned a certain shyness in her responses … |
| 28 | He would never understand how she could memorize all those complex , impossibly long poems , yet forget the words of a simple song she must have heard a thousand times or more . |
| 29 | You must have heard the old story about the bucket of water ; when it was shown to the optimist he described it as being ‘ half full ’ while the pessimist said that it was ‘ half empty ’ . |
| 30 | Whoever was in the flat must have heard the muffled sound of the closing door and was going through into the bedroom to have a look out of the window . |