Example sentences of "he must have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " He must have been splitting His sides when He put the idea into the marquis 's head to leave me here . |
| 2 | Yet Rider Haggard seems to have been dissatisfied with his presentation of the character ( and naturally he must have been influenced , as a professional novelist , by the enormous popularity and sales of She ) and he did not resist the temptation to give his readers a further insight into her . |
| 3 | I 've been looking for him all afternoon , but he must have been tied up with work . |
| 4 | He must have been born in the middle ‘ thirties , when hunger was already rampant . |
| 5 | The man is n't invisible , he must have been seen . ’ |
| 6 | The guy was probably dead when we tipped him into the shaft — we just assumed he was at the time though the older I got the less sure of that I was — but even if was n't , he must have been killed when he hit the bottom ; it 's thirty metres at least . |
| 7 | Dot thought that he must have been moved to a different hospital . |
| 8 | ‘ Something is wrong , Fabia ? ’ he asked urgently , leaving his stance over by the French window where he must have been taking a look outside , to come over to her . |
| 9 | He must have been saving it for months . |
| 10 | On top of the dashboard was a poem called Martin Fierro and a Spanish dictionary lying with its spine up , to which he must have been referring as he waited . |
| 11 | The Rhodesia Metals case was referred to in the Hang Seng Bank case [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 306 and it follows that when Lord Bridge used the words ‘ place where the property was let ’ he must have been referring to the place where the property let was situated and not to the place or places where the lease happened to have been signed . |
| 12 | It was n't my blood , so he must have been bleeding as well |
| 13 | Subconsciously he must have been expecting something like this : his first reaction was not surprise but an intensification of the dull misery which had enveloped him for the last 24 hours . |
| 14 | ‘ Mr Stewart invited him in so he must have been expecting him ’ said Mrs Donnelly . |
| 15 | He must have been hit by a stone . |
| 16 | He must have been gouging for half an hour when an idea seemed to strike him . |
| 17 | The ugly weal across his throat told its own story of why he was unable to say what had happened , although the gamekeeper believed he must have been swept from his horse by the low-lying branch of a tree . |
| 18 | Thus he must have been singing falsetto in this role . |
| 19 | The third time she saw it Allen was with her but he must have been looking in the wrong place , for he did n't see it although she did n't understand how that could be . |
| 20 | He must have been looking for the keys . |
| 21 | He must have been looking for bathroom . |
| 22 | But , fully clothed , he must have been reading in the sitting-room — or maybe he had just come in — when he too had heard the sound of a car crash . |
| 23 | Well he must have been transferred for some reason or other . |
| 24 | He had thought they were at least speaking to one another privately , but if Jim had really sworn an affidavit he must have been listening on another telephone . |
| 25 | He referred to the Man City game which he must have been listening to on Manc Radio . |
| 26 | It concluded that Kennedy was shot by Oswald acting alone , a verdict which has been questioned ever since by those believing that he must have been acting as part of a conspiracy . |
| 27 | He must have been watching , presumably after finding his hideout violated . |
| 28 | Another man who lived in modest circumstances was Thomas Harington of Ridlington , a non-landowner with only £7 in goods ; yet he must have been related to the squire , John Harington the younger , whose servant he was . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He must have been given the stuff in his food . ’ |