Example sentences of "it must have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We moved to Somerset and I saw nothing of Matt for — I do n't know — it must 've been sixteen years I suppose . |
| 2 | It must 've been fifteen foot at least up in the air teetering on a top branch . |
| 3 | morning , but it must 've been alright because er he was going off with David , I said you got tablets for him and she said yeah plenty of stuff for him , anyway , he seemed , he looked alright anyhow |
| 4 | D' you remember I showed you a manuscript — it must 've been some years ago , now — purporting to be by some mariner who remembered an English cargo boat having gone down between us , here at Møn , and Malmo — during the First Schleswig War ? |
| 5 | It must have been awkward getting it all the way to Hochhauser from London . |
| 6 | It seemed that the all-pervading light was weakening : it must have been late afternoon . |
| 7 | I do n't know what time it was but it must have been late . ’ |
| 8 | The thing — it must have been five metres across — rippled its flanges invitingly and eased right to where we stood . |
| 9 | And she went on a party of three , no , no , she went with a party of four friends I think , there were five of them altogether and er she stayed for well er , three nights , four days , or four days , three nights I ca n't remember no , it must have been four days , four nights , three days . |
| 10 | ‘ I have n't had indigestion since that occasion in , let me see , it must have been nineteen sixty-one , when I dined with … ’ |
| 11 | Cos I I got one off teletext erm er it must have been nineteen ninety now for Tenerife four star hotel , seven days , East Midlands Airport for one hundred and fifteen pounds half board er er the following day which was fantastic . |
| 12 | ‘ It must have been amazing . ’ |
| 13 | It must have been creepy for you , going into that empty house and finding something nasty behind the door … hey , that 'd make a title , would n't it ? |
| 14 | The linesman said it must have been accidental , because Linighan looked so ‘ surprised ’ . |
| 15 | In the past it must have been necessary for spectators to keep well clear or be vigilant . |
| 16 | It must have been galling , to say the least , for a man from such a background to be accused of being a Nazi by student revolutionaries at the London School of Economics , whose only experience of a ‘ fascist regime ’ was being refused service in the college bar after closing time . |
| 17 | While it must have been galling for Lear , Gould took pains to ingratiate himself with the young artist , and Lear all too easily complied . |
| 18 | I admire them for being able to sit there in front of everybody and say they actually , what they 've been through because it must have been sheer hell er , trying to come off and withdrawal symptoms , I mean , I do n't know much about it cos I 've never taken well I smoke |
| 19 | ‘ Then it must have been two other people that have been kissing on our front porch for the last nine months . |
| 20 | It must have been two month old . |
| 21 | Think it must have been all the cleaning and dusting I did . " |
| 22 | And all that in one week , it must have been one of Madame 's special amateur talent weeks I suppose . |
| 23 | It must have been one of those little short-necked electric guitars that Lindley had . |
| 24 | ‘ The horrifying thing is the thought that it must have been one of us that did it . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It must have been one hell of a party . |
| 26 | All that remains of the Port Ellen library is the brass Plaque and five volumes in the Gaelic which bear the date 1905 and one of them is number 305 , so it must have been one of the largest as well as one of the early ones . |
| 27 | It must have been one of those men Angy sketched … the one she was talking about packing up . |
| 28 | It must have been one of the old medieval roads into the city , now dosed to traffic by the concrete retaining wall of the ring boulevard . |
| 29 | I was born in one of the semi-detached , but I do n't know which one it was , it must have been one of the |
| 30 | not the first or the fourth it must have been one of those in the middle , but I 'm not sure which one it was . |