Example sentences of "she must have [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | she must 've been holding it in because she did n't wan na wipe her bum with her hand and then you know it just burst out before she could get to the toilet . |
| 2 | It was him she must have been thinking of . |
| 3 | She must have been thinking of Steven ( bridegroom 's name ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I sa I said about half past three , that she must have been enjoying it because she never once came to me |
| 9 | He concluded that she must have been reading modern novels . ) |
| 10 | So she must have been wearing some funny shoes to get corns on |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The key which she must have been holding had fallen beside her . |
| 13 | She must have been looking for me because a few seconds later she spotted me and came over . |
| 14 | And it gets in your hair and it gets in your clothes , she must have been listening to the television . |
| 15 | She must have been staying there at the weekend ! |
| 16 | ‘ She must have been hoping they 'd ask for something she could give . |
| 17 | She must have been straining all day . |
| 18 | She must have been dreaming . |
| 19 | She must have been going for the six o'clock train , and she was probably in a dickens of a rush when … ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She must have been sitting over the phone . |
| 23 | She must have been sitting there reviewing the happenings of this last year for an age . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ We agreed she must have been talking to someone … ’ |
| 26 | I thought she must have been waiting for someone … ’ |
| 27 | She must have been waiting for some time . |
| 28 | She must have been driving more erratically than she thought for she found herself half skewed across the road . |
| 29 | Choose one of the four and try to work out what he or she must have been doing at each stage of the carnival . |
| 30 | She must have been giving him instructions to find out where I was last night . |