Example sentences of "i must have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feeding me must have been painful , and perhaps therefore an unpleasant emotional experience . |
| 2 | I must 've been out at the wrong time . |
| 3 | Then one evening — I must have been 12 or 13 at the time — we were driving back from visiting my nan in Kent . |
| 4 | I must have been knitting . |
| 5 | I must have been arranging those flowers , and setting the lighted candles round them , at the very moment my father was dying . |
| 6 | From outside , the church looked very old , and deserted , and I began to wonder why I had come ; and I must have been a little late , because in the perfect stillness within , the members of the congregation already knelt — like statues , some caught in a swath of rainbow light where the rising sun shone through a stained-glass window , splashing the bowed heads and bent shoulders with crimson , royal blue , emerald and gold . |
| 7 | It seems to me now that I must have been more than a little simple , because I received a telephone call from the home the very next day . |
| 8 | I think I must have been knocked down by a car . ’ |
| 9 | It was a hot day , and I think I must have been half asleep when I noticed something very strange . |
| 10 | I must have been crackers even to think it ! ’ |
| 11 | I must have been subsidizing you . |
| 12 | I must have been jealous of her life away from me , and wished to have her entirely to myself . |
| 13 | Looking back on it , I 've decided I must have been clear round the bend ! |
| 14 | My expressing some Fear of being troublesome in coming so frequently , occasioned a great Variety of Invitations , both in Verse and Prose ; which I could seldom resist : And indeed her whole Behaviour to me was so extremely good-natur 'd and obliging , that I must have been the most ungrateful Person in the World , if I had not endeavour 'd to make some Return . |
| 15 | I suppose I must have been intending to explain to Mr Farraday how I would thus be able to explore an option which might prove the ideal solution to our present small problems here in this house . |
| 16 | We had another narrow escape , and for years afterwards Father would go red with embarrassment when the subject was mentioned : ‘ I must have been off my head , ’ he would mutter ashamedly . |
| 17 | I had kept all the abuse that had been happening to me very much to myself — it seemed to me that I must have been very bad . |
| 18 | ‘ Conceive what I must have been at fourteen , ’ he reminisced to James Gillman , his first biographer . |
| 19 | I tried to stare my dislike into him but I must have been unsuccessful for he merely said with a primitive accent : ‘ Good in auto , yes ? ’ and grinned . |
| 20 | I must have been the greatest bore ever , and it 's a wonder that those I inflicted my views upon did n't rebel . |
| 21 | I must have been spot on his wavelength for I never left the quiet room after one of his healings without a sense , almost of VROOOOM ! |
| 22 | I must have been walking for nearly an hour , he thought . |
| 23 | I must have been adopted . ’ |
| 24 | No wonder poor Dad was embarrassed , even though I must have been repeating something that he himself had said . |
| 25 | I must have been awfully slow , I never got in ahead of her and was always the poor mutt who staggered into the office in the small hours , bleary-eyed and half-dead , while Olive , yawning profusely and clutching her hot water bottle to her bosom , was able to trip down the path to her waiting bed and not surface till about midday the next day . |
| 26 | ‘ I must have been the thorn between the roses , ’ he said , with some satisfaction . |
| 27 | I THINK I must have been slightly mad for most of my life . |
| 28 | ‘ I must have been . |
| 29 | I must have been dreaming . |
| 30 | I must have been overtired , Philippa . |