Example sentences of "must [vb infin] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another young accountant said : ‘ They must want to keep us as busy as possible . |
| 2 | He must 've whacked it fairly hard to caused that sort of damage . |
| 3 | They must know to phone you there . |
| 4 | First you must fill the tank — a relatively idiot-proof exercise , though you must remember to unscrew it carefully and slowly when replenishing it , since the steam is kept under considerable pressure . |
| 5 | Some of the more important include George Blake , who worked for MI6 ( see Chapter 2 ) ; John Cairncross , who betrayed Ultra secrets from the Government Code & Cipher School ( GCCS ) at Bletchley Park during the war to the Russians ; John Vassall , a sad homosexual who gave away naval secrets while working at the Admiralty ; Frank Bossard , who gave the Russians details of British and American guided weapons systems ( which must have amused them greatly as the Russians were far ahead of the West at the time ) ; and William Marshall , who had worked as a cipher clerk at the British Embassy in Moscow . |
| 6 | ‘ You must have missed him very much . ’ |
| 7 | You must have disturbed them right in the act . " |
| 8 | She was n't a virgin anyway , she must have wanted it really . |
| 9 | He must have wanted it so badly . |
| 10 | She had a longish , plain face with a straight nose and almost no eyebrows ; she must have plucked them away in order to repaint them in higher up . |
| 11 | Her eyes flew wide open , the voice in her mind so clear that she felt sure he must have heard it too . |
| 12 | He must have felt it too — how could he not when he was so close ; how could he fail to pick up the reckless drumming of her senses ? |
| 13 | It must have cost her quite a bit too , taking on a man who looks like I look , his fat shoulders and heavy head tensed over the spectacle of her lost or twisted sisters . |
| 14 | Must have cost you quite a lot to buy them each a drink . |
| 15 | ‘ But it must have cost you more than you could afford , ’ Faye accused . |
| 16 | " A tiger must have savaged her recently , " said Devraux quietly . |
| 17 | Man 's discovery that he himself , like other living creatures , is born and dies must have led him intuitively to try to circumvent the relentless flux of time by seeking to perpetuate his own existence indefinitely . |
| 18 | They must have kicked him very hard for it to be so tender . |
| 19 | ‘ You must have hated me too ! ’ she flared , caught , and angry enough to show her resentment , past and present . |
| 20 | ‘ But he must have noticed you then . |
| 21 | And she knew absolutely everything , which must have made her particularly disappointed in Frankie 's slow progress at school . |
| 22 | By nature he is very much ‘ one of the boys ’ , which must have made it hard to assert himself , he does not find it easy to take advice and is readily upset by criticism . |
| 23 | ‘ You must have loved her very much — to be so devastated ? ’ |
| 24 | He was guessing , but my face must have given me away . ’ |
| 25 | She must have given it straight to Charles . ’ |
| 26 | Dawn must have done it then . |
| 27 | No , you could n't throw yourself off , folks must have done it too often , they 'd put massive fencing all along the sides . |
| 28 | You must have seen me often enough without them . |
| 29 | Adam it was who made up the fires of a morning , when his mistress , who slept only fitfully at night , was already awake , Adam who crept noiselessly about the place , unnoticed , who must have seen them together last night outside the ballroom . |
| 30 | And for some unknown reason a lot of Hawaiian musicians played in these travelling shows , and also at the World Fairs around the turn of the century — a lot of people must have seen them there . |