Example sentences of "must [vb infin] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People living here must prefer keeping themselves to themselves . ’ |
| 2 | He says it 's me wife and she 's as mad as hell , and they says yeah we can hear her from here and s must 've said summat about writing and she starts bawling and shouting , oh summat about you 've got to write I want a letter by Friday , you 're not messing me about no more , you 're not talking to him you 're talking to me . |
| 3 | And erm I got down on my hands and knees I must 've done it for an hour |
| 4 | ‘ Somebody must 've left it by mistake . |
| 5 | All right , I 'll put a sling on that arm , and if the pain gets worse you must promise to take yourself to the hospital . ’ |
| 6 | He must need to know it for other reasons . |
| 7 | And business schools will surely need to work out what successful , professional specialists must know to prepare themselves for high-level positions as business executives and business leaders . |
| 8 | The speaker in the afternoon was Sue Beardon , of Voluntary Action-Leeds , and she helped delegates understand what they must do to prepare themselves for the new ways of working . |
| 9 | In addition , the learning steps a student must follow to prepare himself for each test are specified . |
| 10 | I must remember to take one to , there the one 's are n't they ? |
| 11 | The watchers thought that the Silver Birches would certainly be a bit wild and probably without any moral sense at all and Clumhach thought he must remember to tell everyone about his great uncle who had succumbed to a Silver Birch one scandalous afternoon . |
| 12 | You must stop treating me like a naughty girlfriend , for I am neither the one nor the other . |
| 13 | I have always felt that on these policy study groups we must avoid restricting ourselves to those who are already fully committed politically to the Conservative Party . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , you really must try to familiarize yourself with our traditions . |
| 15 | She must try to pack everything in one box , for she will not need many clothes for twelve days ; and she will probably have to bring a hat-box , though indeed the latter will be a little inconvenient . |
| 16 | We must try to prevent him from erring in the first place ; easier said than done ! |
| 17 | It turned out that she did n't realise they were down , but thinks she must have pushed them into that position when dropping the ribber . |
| 18 | The situation in Europe and especially the history of Serbia must have influenced her in her choice of subject and in this sense her book looks forward to Buchan rather than back to Anthony Hope . |
| 19 | Maria had left the identical cuttings anchored by a small china bowl on her coffee-table , but the bowl had been moved , so he must have examined them on arrival . |
| 20 | It must have lulled me into a day dream . |
| 21 | Dan must have built it with just that fantasy in focus , to keep some bust-out bimbo with a big ass and chichis in a style befitting Little Freakin' Egypt . |
| 22 | The adventures of Gorden Kaye , Carmen Silvera and Co must have lost something in their translation for French TV and the entire 'Allo 'Allo saga was screened in 40 days on the subscription channel Canal Plus , noted for its screening of naughty films . |
| 23 | The low price of sugar before 1690 , the dangers of war after 1690 , the Company 's inadequate provision for depreciation , and the planters ' unwillingness to pay their debts , might between them have ruined the Company in any case , but the end of the monopoly must have contributed something to the collapse . |
| 24 | ‘ They must have bugged her for the same reason we went to see her : she was somebody unofficial but experienced in underground work — They 'd know they were up against some British group not the CIA . |
| 25 | I must have missed something in the council tax . |
| 26 | ‘ So , if Jordan put them there he must have wanted them to be found — why ? |
| 27 | Could n't have been for the sex if Rose is to be believed , so must have wanted you for dinner . ’ |
| 28 | They must have contracted them from bacteria transported from the teeming insanitary slums on the other side of town . |
| 29 | Someone of great influence in Britain must have exercised it on his behalf but who did so is not known . |
| 30 | It must have transmitted itself to the patients , for even they gave up after their initial attempts at jollity , and by mid-morning a definite air of gloom seemed to have settled over the place . |