Example sentences of "must [verb] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and what they did , and you were there , and you must 've been listening , what they did , percent for people , they moved it up to Policy and Resources , Policy and Resources percent for people came around , Councillor spoke . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And suddenly he remembered standing here , it was dark-green all around him , but the sky above was blue , the sun must 've been setting , it was quiet , just the creak of a tree , the whir of an insect 's wing , he 'd been standing motionless , as if in a trance , and then he heard a voice , his mother 's voice . |
| 4 | They 'd dived , you see , but eventually they had to surface — the air must 've been getting bad — and up they came , drew nearly alongside a German destroyer the pack had left behind when they called off the hunt , waiting there , just in case Taureg surfaced . |
| 5 | Drivers must 've been celebrating too . |
| 6 | No but it must 've been talking about youngsters having cars |
| 7 | I said , ‘ What I told you before — you were dreaming , you must 've been dreaming , you know . |
| 8 | Yeah he must 've been following her about . |
| 9 | I just love the way that kid must 've been standing out there for what , fifteen minutes ? |
| 10 | I must have been misguiding myself for a very long time Mr . |
| 11 | Historians of the conservative tendency , in rejecting the claims of the leading historians of the popular reform movement , seem to be suggesting that it must have been over-reacting . |
| 12 | I was speechless , but my brain must have been ticking loudly . |
| 13 | Some of them must have been terrifying . |
| 14 | His journey from the unknown region must have been terrifying — a fragment of his soul , running the land but without benefit of flight or fin … and he came too soon … |
| 15 | ‘ It must have been terrifying . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She must have been looking for me because a few seconds later she spotted me and came over . |
| 18 | He must have been looking for the keys . |
| 19 | Master Thomas said they must have been looking for people , not things , and thought you should be warned , so … ’ |
| 20 | He must have been looking for bathroom . |
| 21 | Must have been looking for a house . |
| 22 | It must have been seeing her reading Tennyson that had dredged up an old forgotten quotation . |
| 23 | The hon. Member for Dagenham must have been speaking out of turn at that time ; he has certainly been nobbled since . |
| 24 | ‘ She must have been hoping they 'd ask for something she could give . |
| 25 | But the way Brian Harley is playing at the moment he must have been hoping to double that at least . ’ |
| 26 | Sir Patrick Mayhew must have been hoping for some winners and losers , as he considers how to kick-start his talks process . |
| 27 | Oh , the dear love , thought Leith , having just realised that , heartsick for a sight of Rosemary , he must have been hoping that Rosemary was back and that she might , if asked , come over for a cup of coffee . |
| 28 | Taken together the expansion of the middle-class suburbs was from about 28 , inhabitants in 1871 to over three-quarters of a million ( 808,000 ) just after World War I. The other large suburbs , of mixed population , though with working-class majorities , experienced similar trajectories : Lichtenberg grew from 4,700 in 1871 to 145,000 in 1919 , Rixdorf/ Neukolln from 8,145 to 262,000 , and Spandau from 20,500 to 95,500.10 The total population growth of just these large above-mentioned mainly working-class districts was of the order of 1.3 million from 1871 to World War I , a phenomenon which taken together with the revolutionary uprising of 1918 must have been frightening to Berlin 's middle classes in a manner hardly imaginable today . |
| 29 | ‘ Come on , ye had the opportunity , and after that extraordinary scene in the garden ye must have been bubblin' over with curiosity . ’ |
| 30 | If it was n't exactly political pessimism of the order of ‘ mourir pour Danzig ’ it must have been alarming for Americans to hear from High Commissioner Pignon 's diplomatic adviser of the feeling that French interests were not important enough to die for because the country was being given over to the Vietnamese and when the war was over French influence would have disappeared . |