Example sentences of "it must [verb] been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It must 've been a pretty powerful bloke who did that ; father was no weakling . ’ |
| 2 | It must 've been a belt that 's come right through central London and completely missed the suburbs , or North London anyway suburbs |
| 3 | It must have been a male tree for there was no sign of the drooping clusters of yellow fruit that female trees would now be bearing . |
| 4 | It must have been a shock , her turning up out of the blue like that . |
| 5 | At one time it must have been a waiting room for clients . |
| 6 | It must have been a strange sight in a land of Celtic war chiefs , dressed in Highland-type garb , to see the proud , aristocratic De Cuellar in fine Spanish attire , pulling a face as he sipped the O'Rourke potheen and thought of his native wine . |
| 7 | With the young Wilhelm Pitz as the chorus-master of the local Opera Chorus in Aachen , it must have been a formidable combination . |
| 8 | It must have been a daunting task to know how to encompass and animate such an extensive and familiar subject , but the Royal College of Art , which was commissioned to organise and design the event , enlisted that most reliable of cultural populists , John Julius Norwich , to curate , and he has proved a model of Dimblebyan dependability , as well as introducing the commendably brief but informative and well laid-out catalogue . |
| 9 | It is only now clear to me that in actual fact it must have been a day later . |
| 10 | Even in those early days , before Nature had taken over to make the canal the gem of rural beauty it is today , it must have been a charming trip . |
| 11 | It must have been a dreadful shock . |
| 12 | ‘ It must have been a big shock . |
| 13 | ‘ It must have been a terrible shock . |
| 14 | I suppose if it was there all by itself it must have been a ram . ’ |
| 15 | And then the ram : yes , it must have been a ram . |
| 16 | All three spoke as though the moment were of no real consequence , but I know that for Mother and for O at least it must have been a strange and moving moment . |
| 17 | ‘ But , ’ Paula hesitated , then went on , ‘ it must have been a massacre when you evaded that truck . |
| 18 | It must have been a relief when trams were never once mentioned at his Blackpool interview ! |
| 19 | In any case , it must have been a question of degree . |
| 20 | It must have been a terrible ordeal . |
| 21 | This happened in the days before Juvenile Courts and it must have been a terrifying experience to be taken into the Court as a seven-year-old to be tried . |
| 22 | It must have been a terrible experience to see the meal vanish before their eyes — one that Dad never forgot . |
| 23 | In its heyday it must have been a good little vehicle , but now it was definitely finished . |
| 24 | ‘ Better get moving , ’ he thought He stopped as he turned Had he imagined it , no , he was sure something had flashed in the moonlight It must have been a good quarter of a mile away , towards the middle of the estuary . |
| 25 | It must have been a long summer holiday because I managed to be there both for the haymaking and the harvest . |
| 26 | ‘ It must have been a terrible shock for you … ’ |
| 27 | It seems that other young men came to stay too — I suppose it must have been a very welcome extra source of income — and I understand that Great-Grandmother Tallentire was criticized for allowing young men to stay in the house when she had daughters . |
| 28 | These lost lands are named on old charts as ‘ Sunke Sands ’ and it must have been a logical progression to name the risen sandbank ‘ Sunk Sand Island ’ , eventually over the centuries to be shortened to today 's Sunk Island . |
| 29 | Not all can be traced to the Black Death , but it must have been a significant factor . |
| 30 | ‘ People here ca n't help but think it must have been a local person , ’ said young mother Janeen Armstrong . |