Example sentences of "must have been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the soldiers in the field must 've been thoroughly sick of all those whining pieces about Our Boys and Girls , and their mail , or the endlessly recycled nonsense about how hard it was to be a female soldier in Saudi Arabia . |
| 2 | He must 've been dead eighteen years . |
| 3 | And when I came back , Bobby I gave Grant they and erm he must 've been pretty desperate because he did a wee wee before we left and he did a wee wee before |
| 4 | And your sister 's ten years older than you so they must 've been there ten years plus , must n't they ? |
| 5 | you , you must 've been there ten years plus . |
| 6 | Yeah , he 's , he 's into ev oh it must 've been about six or eight weeks ago he started saying a couple of things and I thought oh he 's coming now , but it stopped I think I got excited when he started saying dark , but that 's as far as it got , int it ? |
| 7 | It was and yet , I 'm losing my thread with , what I was going to say was , it must 've been so important because an in that you could get anything you liked . |
| 8 | so they must 've been fairly sure of their support to allow them to come into an area of villages . |
| 9 | There must 've been with erm in forty seven was it the encirclement campaign where they allowed the nationalists to sort of drive through the , I do n't know the defences , they must 've been fairly certain of their support in certain areas by then . |
| 10 | Everybody says , ‘ Oh , you won £44,000 in the world championships , you must 've been really pleased with that , ’ but it 's not just the money , it 's being able to pick up the trophy at the end — that 's the nice thing . |
| 11 | So , she starts quizzing me and I start nattering on about the bloody Brontes — I think Mrs Fleming must 've been really intelligent when she was young , honest-to-god she was firing them at me faster than Bamber Gascoigne , she says to me : ‘ And tell me , Karen , how are you going to deal with the themes of Repressed Sexuality in the Brontes ' work ? ’ |
| 12 | As argued earlier , for prevalence to have risen to over 1,000 in 1984–5 from a very low baseline in 1979 and a major acceleration in the incidence rate around 1982–3 , annual incidence for the five agencies must have been over 400 during 1984–5 , compared with nearer 300 in 1985–6 . |
| 13 | I think I was feeling guilty — although we must have been equally relieved to have the subject at our disposal . |
| 14 | My boyhood hero Nelson must have been equally impressed . |
| 15 | Their women folk must have been equally formidable . |
| 16 | He must have been equally surprised to see her but he recovered first , and while Rachel was still floundering to find something to say and Julie was murmuring something about hoping he would enjoy working at OBEX he said , ‘ Actually , we 've met before . |
| 17 | In the glaring light , the racket of cicadas , the events of the night seemed in some way fictional ; as if I must have been slightly drugged . |
| 18 | I THINK I must have been slightly mad for most of my life . |
| 19 | The lady in question was married to a lawyer who , in spite of being a writer to the signet , must have been singularly incompetent , for , as Gorthie remarked , ‘ he 's a senseless fellow that can make no shift for her and a great many children they have ’ . |
| 20 | It must have been nearly 5 o'clock when , having finally got the cars across that ferry , we eventually drove into Martigues in dazzling late afternoon sunshine to see the fishing boats come in . |
| 21 | She must have been nearly seventy . |
| 22 | It must have been nearly three months before I heard from Mrs Ainsworth , and in fact I had begun to wonder at the bassets ' long symptomless run when she came on the phone . |
| 23 | She must have been nearly forty years of age , tall , thin and plainly dressed . |
| 24 | And he must have been nearly ten minutes ! |
| 25 | All I can say about that is that it must have been awfully feeble acid to make your visions come out so pedestrian as this . |
| 26 | I must have been awfully slow , I never got in ahead of her and was always the poor mutt who staggered into the office in the small hours , bleary-eyed and half-dead , while Olive , yawning profusely and clutching her hot water bottle to her bosom , was able to trip down the path to her waiting bed and not surface till about midday the next day . |
| 27 | The thegns lived in increasing grandeur but in wooden halls rather than masonry villas ; although tapestried and heated by a central fire they must have been both dirty and draughty . |
| 28 | To Sara , more hard-pressed than ever at Lime Street , the intellectual and emotional sympathy binding Coleridge and Dorothy must have been both apparent and distressing , even if Dorothy , in De Quincey 's words , was a woman possessing ‘ no personal charms ’ : on only the second day of the visit Coleridge and Dorothy were occupied together correcting his poems for the new edition while Sara was left to carry the domestic burdens of the teeming cottage . |
| 29 | From the large numbers that have been found in this country ‘ key rings ’ must have been both popular and fashionable items : they also served a practical purpose for at the time pockets were not known . |
| 30 | I know that I went there when the change I have spoken of must have been already complete . |