Example sentences of "must have been the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ears of grain were called apples of gold , which must have been the first gold in the world while metallic gold was unknown … |
| 2 | She learned that Maxim had an elder sister — oddly , she 'd always assumed he must have been the first child — who had married a Quaker school-master and lived up North , had three children and did n't work , ‘ Except at disapproving of the Army , ’ Maxim added . |
| 3 | Just such a sentry must have been the first to die , the night the Welsh came . |
| 4 | He must have been the first cousin of Man . |
| 5 | One man , Ivan Masterson , talks about how he helped pull people from the rubble and says : ‘ It must have been the second body I helped to take out … it was an awful shock seeing my uncle there with his wife beside him . ’ |
| 6 | It must have been the last one left in London . |
| 7 | It must have been the last straw to a tired Lancaster crew to have home in sight , and then to be attacked by a fighter . |
| 8 | The tower must have been the last sight of land for hundreds of drowning mariners in peace and war . |
| 9 | ‘ Must have been the last time I saw him . |
| 10 | Max Beerbohm 's generation must have been the last to which the delicious syllabub was a familiar childhood treat . |
| 11 | it must have been the last he wrote — saying |
| 12 | And to slip in the mud must have been the last straw . |
| 13 | He must have been the last to drink it . |
| 14 | Erm it must have been the last day , it must have been Friday , must have been Friday . |
| 15 | Coming on duty , on what must have been the third morning for our ‘ C ’ cases I met Sister Hancock coming unsteadily down from the theatre . |