Example sentences of "must have [been] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Funny , I did n't think I 'd hit him , but I suppose I must have — must 've been the second shot . |
| 2 | As Webster goes on to point out , when study of the cuneiform records revealed that the Babylonian shabbatum ( full-moon day ) also fell on the fourteenth ( or fifteenth ) day of the month , we were presented with another survival of what must have been the primary meaning of the Hebrew term shabbath . |
| 3 | Must have been the thirties . |
| 4 | I must have been the greatest bore ever , and it 's a wonder that those I inflicted my views upon did n't rebel . |
| 5 | Volcanic effects have been even more sudden and disastrous , ranging from the explosion of the island of Krakatoa , between Java and Sumatra , in 1883 to the even more catastrophic eruption of Santorini ( or Thira ) in the Aegean about 1470 B.C. This eruption , or series of eruptions , which resulted in the huge collapsed caldera in the sea beside the present island , must have been the greatest catastrophe ever witnessed by man and may well have been heard as far away as Britain . |
| 6 | ‘ Ears of grain were called apples of gold , which must have been the first gold in the world while metallic gold was unknown … |
| 7 | She learned that Maxim had an elder sister — oddly , she 'd always assumed he must have been the first child — who had married a Quaker school-master and lived up North , had three children and did n't work , ‘ Except at disapproving of the Army , ’ Maxim added . |
| 8 | Just such a sentry must have been the first to die , the night the Welsh came . |
| 9 | He must have been the first cousin of Man . |
| 10 | ‘ It must have been the other one ! |
| 11 | It must have been the other one . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It must have been the tremendous strain he had been under worrying about Laura and trying to keep his job up . |
| 13 | It was a big house , at least four good bedrooms , and the garden must have been the best part of two acres . |
| 14 | and the back well it must have been the best part of should think a third of an acre |
| 15 | The train Stratton must have caught — said he 'd caught — must have been the 16.20 from Paddington , arriving at Didcot 17.10 , and Oxford 17.29 . |
| 16 | He was flim-flamming , of course , but that must have been the general burden of the letters . |
| 17 | One man , Ivan Masterson , talks about how he helped pull people from the rubble and says : ‘ It must have been the second body I helped to take out … it was an awful shock seeing my uncle there with his wife beside him . ’ |
| 18 | Must have been the early 1940s , my mother taking me for a walk near Bostall Woods during a gap in the bombing . |
| 19 | Amazingly this must have been the final straw for it , because its top hinge broke and it swivelled on the bottom one , narrowly missing Miss Louise before it crashed to the floor . |
| 20 | ‘ My poor wife 's attempt to scare her into flight must have been the final straw . |
| 21 | He asked me a lot of suspicious questions , and eventually I was shown to what must have been the poorest room in his house , over the kitchen , facing a hen-run . |
| 22 | In the end it must have been the right one because I was the best of all and I you know until five minutes before everything finished I just could n't make up my mind |
| 23 | Greg pushed the door and found himself in what must have been the largest room in the cottage . |
| 24 | I suppose there must have been the usual quota of cold , wet and windy days but I ca n't remember them . |
| 25 | Here and there they pick up and make use of the old common balks in the former open fields , which must have been the usual way of proceeding from one village to another in open-field country , but for the most part they are drawn straight across the old furlongs and strips regardless of all considerations but that of directness . |
| 26 | This must have been the only time John ever had his work discussed in detail by a choreographer of Balanchine 's gifts and experience , and although Buckle described him as ‘ looking somewhat quelled ’ his nature was such as to profit from it . |
| 27 | ‘ She must have been the only woman Paheri ever liked . |
| 28 | This must have been the only totally calm day of our whole trip so we did n't get far , but it was very relaxing trailing fingers in the water and enjoying the sun ( NB water too cold to swim ! ) . |
| 29 | That must have been the only man ever to get no points three times in a row . |
| 30 | There followed what must have been the longest two hours of my life . |