Example sentences of "must have [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ So , if Jordan put them there he must have wanted them to be found — why ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He must have worried himself to death just because he was afraid to tell me . ’ |
| 5 | The same scenario must have presented itself to Randy , Mitch and Noel . |
| 6 | Dad must have said something to him about it . |
| 7 | My visit must have alarmed him to the extent that he decided to check again to ensure he had n't left any clues . |
| 8 | He must have supposed himself to be using a language absolutely purged of metaphor when he wrote at the grand climax of the Discourse on method |
| 9 | The name Tolkien , he once remarked in a letter , is based on the German word for foolhardy : which is what , when he finally had his huge romance published , he must have supposed himself to be . |
| 10 | But it must have meant something to someone . |
| 11 | Luke must have put her to bed . |
| 12 | And do galaxies with unusually compact companions show any sign of past quasar activity ? one intriguing clue is that the nearest compact galaxy we know happens to be a companion to the giant radio galaxy M87 — and its orbit must have taken it to within 6000 light years of M87 only 100 million years ago . |
| 13 | It seemed to Harriet that Liza must have unburdened herself to Dr Forman rather than her own mother and somehow this increased her sense of resentment . |
| 14 | Thus , where the draftsman used the phrase " adjoining premises " in one part of the lease and the phrase " adjoining or neighbouring premises " in another part of it , it was held that the former phrase only applied to property that came into physical contact with the demised property because the words " or neighbouring " must have added something to the word " adjoining " ( White v Harrow ( 1902 ) 86 LT 4 ) . |