Example sentences of "must [verb] [vb pp] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | She seemed pulled out , elongated by it , so that her shoes , her new bronze slippers with rosettes on the toes that Aunt Emily had said she must keep hidden at all times if possible since legs and feet were highly indecent , seemed far further away than the five and a half feet she knew separated them from the crown of her head . |
| 2 | The expectation that the new borrowings will be available , if required , must have existed at the balance sheet date and this expectation should be reviewed in the light of any post balance sheet events to ensure it remains reasonable on the date the financial statements are approved by the directors . |
| 3 | " Then it must have rained at last . " |
| 4 | He must have stood at least two inches over six feet , and his obvious physical strength caused an unfamiliar quivering to start up deep inside her . |
| 5 | For the next few years American audiences were shown aspects of their society that they could never have expected to have encountered at the movies and it must have struck at least some members of the public that film-going had become a more serious business . |
| 6 | It must have represented at least three weeks wages for the average man in the village . |
| 7 | Memories of the 16-cylinder engine disaster must have faded at BRM by the mid '60s when the company embarked on another ambitious project . |
| 8 | The essay , on ‘ The Dangers of Smoking ’ , had cost Hank a number of Sundays of hard work , and he estimated that he must have smoked at least eight packs of cigarettes while writing it , but to his astonishment it had won him a hundred dollars . |
| 9 | Bournemouth must have felt at home on a pitch which resembled a beach after the tide had receded . |
| 10 | Yet the joy Magellan must have felt at realizing his men were still alive was as nothing when he saw , as the tiny naos drew closer , that their yardarms were hung with bunting , that music was playing and the crews were dancing , singing and shouting . |
| 11 | It was easy to imagine what relief the miners must have felt at the end of a long day 's work in those conditions when they saw the mouth of the tunnel framing the daylight before them . |
| 12 | But they 're going to develop a ride which will recreate how it must have felt at the time . |
| 13 | Now in in the bakery at that time it was one of the most progressive bakeries in the city and it must have employed at least about a hundred bakers . |
| 14 | Sealed units must have destroyed at lot of the or taken a chunk out of the market . |
| 15 | Until recently he must have lived at Horton in Ivinghoe , where he had £2 a year in land , for the entry there concerning him was cancelled with the gloss ‘ quia in Edlesboro non computetor ? ’ |
| 16 | Mechanics everywhere must have cringed at that scene . |
| 17 | J. says I must have eaten at least three of the pounds myself , but that 's just his usual exaggeration . |
| 18 | It screwed me up thinking how the invalid 's hopes must have soared at the sound of my entry , and how she must now be falling into deeper and deeper misery because of the silence and the nothing happening . |
| 19 | The same waves reached Hawaii in the central Pacific less than 5 hours later and must have travelled at a speed of 740 km per hour . |
| 20 | She supposed she must have risen at some point to light a candle on the mantlepiece . |
| 21 | The list of Mozart 's effects , made immediately after his death , included books , manuscripts , a billiard table , a fortepiano , a ‘ viola in its own case ’ ( his violin must have remained at Salzburg ) , as well as the usual pieces of furniture and various personal effects . |
| 22 | I do n't know , I always said I 'd never took the piss out of these children , but I 'm sure I must have done at school , but I must admit I was embarrassed . |
| 23 | Instead , it perhaps sees its bulging coffers as sufficient reason to risk the wrath of the law , as it must have done at Fangdale Beck . |
| 24 | They must have gone at least three miles along the Atherton Road already . |
| 25 | I rather think that the RN instructors on my course must have suffered at the hands of the Customs on returning from a foreign tour as they really gave us a hard time . |
| 26 | Where the employee works less than 16 hours , but more than eight hours , a week , her continuous employment must have begun at least five years before the qualifying date . |
| 27 | Jumped ‘ The gunman got out of a window and must have jumped at least 25 feet to the ground . |
| 28 | It was on a half-pasted-up Foyer Display on his desk at the theatre — Your Front-of-House Man , Christopher Tomms — Dad must have raged at everyone to find it , but he never thought to ask me . |
| 29 | Rather , they recognise that such ‘ nonstandard dialects are highly structured systems ’ and that ‘ the adult or child who uses these rules must have formed at some level of psychological organisation clear concepts of ‘ tense marker ’ , ‘ verb phrase ’ , ‘ rule ordering ’ , ‘ sentence embedding ’ , ‘ pronoun ’ and many other grammatical categories which are essential parts of any logical system ’ ( ibid. p. 45 ) . |
| 30 | Thus , after two days in which a negotiated settlement to the original squabble seemed possible , an ultimatum to the Vietminh to clear out of Haiphong in two hours led to a bombardment which must have killed at least 1,000 people , many if not most of whom would be described as innocent civilians . |