Example sentences of "must [vb infin] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must 've made a mistake — Marie said she 'd write to me . |
| 2 | The downstairs was inches deep in sherry bottles , newspapers , strange men 's shoes , and someone must 've lit a fire in the kitchen because there was a big black patch on the floor , as if a rocket had taken off . |
| 3 | It , it must 've cost a fortune , because er extra because of all the hotel accommodation we had to have as well . |
| 4 | Maxie Carlo must 've cracked a joke . |
| 5 | Northampton , who must win to maintain a league challenge to Orrell and Bath , the front-runners , are without Ian Hunter , who damaged a hamstring on Hong Kong Sevens duty , and Tim Rodber , the England and Army forward , who , like Underwood , has to give Service duties priority . |
| 6 | ‘ There is evidence of a significant effort being made to improve safety but we must strive to achieve a reduction in accidents that matches the efforts , ’ said . |
| 7 | There is an essential interdependency between businesses and we must strive to build a partnership with our customers and to establish long term relationships with them . |
| 8 | Bettleheim in The Uses of Enchantment provides an apt summary of what a story must do to hold a child 's interest and ‘ enrich his ( sic ) life ’ . |
| 9 | But social services are not a luxury : any complex industrial society must expect to spend a lot on social services . |
| 10 | They must begin teaching a syllabus this September to pupils who will sit their exams in 1994 , but the exam fee will not be set until the end of next year . |
| 11 | Supplier companies wishing to sell their products to industrial markets must try to establish a pattern or " mix " of inter-related activities . |
| 12 | The second ( which I prefer ) is to say that , difficult though the task is , one must try to find a way of writing rules that express what native speakers naturally tend to do in placing stress ( while acknowledging that there will always be a substantial residue of cases which appear to follow no regular rules ) . |
| 13 | If this were so then these other clubs must have breathed a sigh of relief when City 's books were not produced . |
| 14 | To be eligible for the DBA programme candidates must have completed an MBA or a similar degree-level qualification in management . |
| 15 | To be eligible for the DBA programme candidates must have completed an MBA ( Master of Business Administration ) or a similar degree-level qualification in management . |
| 16 | Mike Gatting presented , and in the pre-match interviews he stressed that it was very , very hot , and I swear Gatt must have lost a stone just standing out in the middle talking about the pitch . |
| 17 | ‘ And take something for yourself ; you must have lost a day 's trading to chase after us . ’ |
| 18 | Since he did not have the physical strength of most of the others , this was important for him and must have contributed a lot to his effectiveness . |
| 19 | I think we must have missed a briefing from |
| 20 | He bought all the most fantastic " unrealistic " fiction he could find and afford ; by the rules they must have hidden a clue away in it " somewhere . |
| 21 | ‘ The police think she — Sybil — must have disturbed an intruder , and there 's some suggestion that the same person killed Angy . |
| 22 | Indirectly this must have represented a challenge to the influence of Aethelred of Mercia in the East Saxon region . |
| 23 | They must have heard a lot of wonderful music-making . |
| 24 | I must have heard a car door slam , or something . ’ |
| 25 | But in Beijing on March 25th , as he plodded through a three-hour speech at the opening session of China 's annual parliament , the National People 's Congress , some at least of the 3,000 delegates must have felt a twinge of sympathy . |
| 26 | ‘ She must have liked a book of mine , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Lomax must have scored a lung shot , Curtis observed clinically . |
| 28 | Although there was no common intention expressed by the parties at Geneva , he deduces their intention from the wording of the Protocol : the opening words of Article 1 of Protocol II , the fact that the rebels must have achieved a degree of organisation before the Protocol can be activated , and Article 6 ( 5 ) of the Protocol all demonstrate an intent to bind both sides to the conflict . |
| 29 | My guess is , he must have written an account . |
| 30 | I must have destroyed a bomber ! |