Example sentences of "must have been in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh it was a dreadful thing when you come to think of it now , the poor women could n't help it she was must have been in desperate straits to do a thing like that . |
| 2 | She did n't finish her apprenticeship — I deduce that , rather than know it — sometime , it must have been in 1934 , came south , worked in Woolworths on the Edgware Road , spent the war years in Roehampton , a ward maid again , at the hospital where they mended fighter pilots ' ruined faces . |
| 3 | So it must have been in nineteen eighty nine , just after the |
| 4 | He saw a vast patch of blood and guessed that the ship must have been in one of the many petty skirmishes which took place at sea , for ships of various nations , Norway , Denmark , England , Scotland and France used these waters for fishing , trade and piracy . |
| 5 | She must have been in one of those baskets in the back of the car , Ruth supposed . |
| 6 | It must have been in that one moment of darkness , as she 'd been taking her hand away . |
| 7 | Aaron 's mother , Lesley , 26 , said : ‘ He was very calm and must have been in great pain . |
| 8 | You must have been in full-time employment for a fixed time before you can claim ? |
| 9 | Well , I must have been in first year juniors . |
| 10 | Others , however , joined in the exercise : ‘ It must have been in such and such a way ; I mean , there 's a story which says … |
| 11 | Coming back , as always , to the Jurassic , one has only to compare the 30 ammonite zones represented in one foot of sediment in Sicily with the 15 000 feet representing a single zone in Oregon , to realise how startlingly different rates of deposition must have been in different places . |
| 12 | This being must have been in some way necessary to humanity , it is inconceivable that this is not so , for surely there would have been evidence of at least one enduring civilisation that had neither ‘ god ’ nor temple . |
| 13 | Must have been in this room when I got here . |
| 14 | By the middle of 1802 , as the family house and shop passed into other hands , Ben was left alone with only sisters for company ; Elizabeth , the eldest , had very recently married , and little brother must have been in imminent danger of succumbing to the petticoat government of Mary and Sarah . |
| 15 | It must have been in these years that Henry II and Eleanor became increasingly estranged . |
| 16 | This transhumance to distant resources is often thought of only in connection with more primitive and foreign communities , but it was certainly common in Anglo-Saxon and medieval times and must have been in earlier periods as well ( Figs. 11 , 59 and 93 ) . |