Example sentences of "must have been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd dived , you see , but eventually they had to surface — the air must 've been getting bad — and up they came , drew nearly alongside a German destroyer the pack had left behind when they called off the hunt , waiting there , just in case Taureg surfaced . |
| 2 | It must have been discouraging that Adieu was not thought worthy to be given at Sadler 's Wells , and that the more handsome setting which Stevenson had designed for it was not used at that time . |
| 3 | At this period the players must have been getting sick of the sight of each other , for just another few months and England were playing their first one-day games in the West Indies . |
| 4 | ‘ It must have been getting light at about seven o'clock . |
| 5 | He concluded that she must have been reading modern novels . ) |
| 6 | So she must have been wearing some funny shoes to get corns on |
| 7 | Must have been raining last night . |
| 8 | Let's hope he or she cares about you enough to say , ‘ You know you should have called me earlier-you must have been holding this in for days ! ’ |
| 9 | She must have been straining all day . |
| 10 | He must have been causing some problems . |
| 11 | The suddenness of the increased use of artillery in the third quarter of the fourteenth century is evidenced by the fact that when Gaston Fébus , vicomte of Béarn in the Pyrenees , had a network of fortifications constructed between 1365 and 1380 ( a period during which many castles were built in France ) he must have been building some of the last fortifications to take no account of artillery , which was very soon to compel important developments in the art of defence . |
| 12 | Agnes said the words to herself , her mind telling her that this was the end of June and her sister must have been carrying this dreadful secret since … when ? |
| 13 | ‘ I must have been feeling manic depressive when I had this done . |
| 14 | Alex 's strange position in the production must have been making all of the usual understudy agonies even worse . |
| 15 | The humans must have been having similar thoughts , if humans had thoughts . |
| 16 | they must have been putting two thousand in you know |
| 17 | Finn must have been lying awake in the darkness , as she was , the wall separating them like Tristan 's sword , for she could hear the soft murmur of him and Francie talking together for a little while , but she could not make out one word . |
| 18 | What intrigues me is that Mailer has spent years on it , has published almost 1,200 pages , is at work on part two and must have been doing all this while the Reagan/Bush/Casey/North epoch went rolling past a society and a mass media obsessed with Nancy 's wardrobe and the cultivation of the perfect junk-bond . |
| 19 | Well he must have been doing that with the saucepan , he 's pulled all the carpet up . |
| 20 | Kammerer must have been imposing such intense selection on such a large sample of eggs that he was able to filter out the odd egg that carried the remnant complex of genes still present in the species ' gene pool at very low frequencies . |
| 21 | I must have been arranging those flowers , and setting the lighted candles round them , at the very moment my father was dying . |
| 22 | The only place I could think of was Stonehenge which must have been spanking new then and as up to date as a Hilton or an out-of-town Sainsburys . |