Example sentences of "must have been [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that after the Great War the Liberal party went into decline and the Labour party emerged as a governmental party seemed to indicate that the most interesting developments must have been taking place on the left of British politics , even before the war . |
| 2 | The procedure is only available for proposed and not completed mergers and the merger proposal must have been made public . |
| 3 | Thus he must have been singing falsetto in this role . |
| 4 | You must have been expecting trouble . ’ |
| 5 | Importance of contacts : Sir Patrick is quite happy with the thought that one of BP 's intentions in inviting him to join its board must have been to gain access to his little black book . |
| 6 | The subject was taken from contemporary life and the chief musical interest lies in the treatment not of the amorous gentry but of the hero 's four comic servants and their sons , and the peasants at a fair , who sing partly in dialect : and in a quick recitative with many repeated notes which must have been performed quasi-parlando . |
| 7 | Anyway , we kept blowing in , and we must have been doing mouth to mouth for about eighteen er about a mi a minute and a half . |
| 8 | He must have been chopping wood outside and forgotten to hide it . |
| 9 | Therefore Neill LJ must have been contemplating protection by an express restrictive covenant of confidential information in respect of which an obligation against use or disclosure after the determination of the employment could not be implied . |
| 10 | ‘ Yet you must have been keeping watch on the house — why ? ’ |
| 11 | They must have been unpacking Rice Crispies . |