Example sentences of "she must have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was him she must have been thinking of . |
| 2 | She must have been thinking of Steven ( bridegroom 's name ) . |
| 3 | She suddenly became aware that she must have been thinking of Naylor Massingham for quite a bit of the journey , when she was all at once incredibly jolted by a question that flashed into her head out of nowhere . |
| 4 | She must have been watching because she smiled , or rather tried not to smile too obviously — she tried to conceal her pleasure in witnessing the beginning of her triumph by pressing her lips together , but the smile came out anyway . |
| 5 | She could n't have been asleep when I lifted the ledger from her lap and scanned its pages : she must have been watching me all the time . |
| 6 | And her daughter I think she must have been getting on because around the time she told me that she was eighty , she happened to mention that her daughter was forty . |
| 7 | I sa I said about half past three , that she must have been enjoying it because she never once came to me |
| 8 | He concluded that she must have been reading modern novels . ) |
| 9 | So she must have been wearing some funny shoes to get corns on |
| 10 | Only that she must have been holding out on him all these years , that she did have memories which she had covered up or , to give her the benefit of the doubt , conveniently forgotten about . |
| 11 | The key which she must have been holding had fallen beside her . |
| 12 | She must have been looking for me because a few seconds later she spotted me and came over . |
| 13 | And it gets in your hair and it gets in your clothes , she must have been listening to the television . |
| 14 | She must have been staying there at the weekend ! |
| 15 | ‘ She must have been hoping they 'd ask for something she could give . |
| 16 | She must have been straining all day . |
| 17 | She must have been dreaming . |
| 18 | She must have been going for the six o'clock train , and she was probably in a dickens of a rush when … ’ |
| 19 | she was nearly retiring by the , no still the girls go to her at the school so she must have been going for , two or three years after we came up here , but I would be in the choir just , maybe two or three years . |
| 20 | Because Edith now Edith was going away for some unknown reason , I do n't know , she must have been going on another holiday anyhow . |
| 21 | She must have been sitting over the phone . |
| 22 | She must have been sitting there reviewing the happenings of this last year for an age . |
| 23 | And in this last day , she must have been camping about , I do n't know how , but somehow she was traversing I she probably did n't she was using the living room as a store , I could only think that , she could n't possibly live in it . |
| 24 | ‘ We agreed she must have been talking to someone … ’ |
| 25 | I thought she must have been waiting for someone … ’ |
| 26 | She must have been waiting for some time . |
| 27 | She must have been driving more erratically than she thought for she found herself half skewed across the road . |
| 28 | Choose one of the four and try to work out what he or she must have been doing at each stage of the carnival . |
| 29 | She must have been giving him instructions to find out where I was last night . |