Example sentences of "must have [verb] for [det] " in BNC.

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1 Say no I 'm alright and I must 've lifted my head , all I could hear was this old scraggy voice like a witch , ah serve the fucking bastard right , the fucking honest to fuck , so I must 've sat for another half an hour and I knew I had to go that way to get home .
2 The times are noted in.my diary and , if they are accurate , I must have survived for several days in succession on as little as one or two hours ' sleep per night .
3 He wondered why Pinkie mentioned Laura , then realised with sinking heart that she was no longer keeping her discontent to herself and the echo of it must have travelled for some distance .
4 Why she was here , she could n't imagine ; but her head was clearer than it had been in a long time , which meant that she must have gone for some hours without any kind of an injection .
5 ‘ Presumably they must have to pay for all the preparation leading up to an operation of this sort , and pay the staff who are waiting around .
6 Galleries had to be cleared 36 times , which must have accounted for some 35 minutes delay .
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