Example sentences of "must have have [art] " in BNC.

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1 Beautiful piece , one of the earliest I 've seen — but he must 've had a hard head , ‘ coz it broke .
2 ‘ All it tells us is he must 've had a foreign accent for them to give him a name like that .
3 When you 're going round the Fens , you must 've had a very early start in the morning , did you ?
4 The ice cream girl must have had a lie in this Sunday morning , and she arrived towards the end of the film showing prior to the interval .
5 The firearm in an angel 's hands must have had a powerful impact on Indian converts .
6 Yet when he came to write the chapters on earthquakes and volcanos in Madam How and Lady Why ( 1869 ) , he could not dismiss from his mind the notion that , underlying the scientific explanation of how these disasters occurred , God must have had a reason for permitting them .
7 They must have had a key , then ! ’
8 ‘ You must have had a reason . ’
9 The boy must have had a terrible time at school .
10 Or ‘ In the old days you had no government but you collected taxes from passers-by : you must have had a treasury ? ’
11 Old Charlie must have had a bit of a penchant for potholing judging by the amount of time he spent in every rock crevice north of Carlisle , but I prefer to suspend my scepticism and believe that the great man did indeed peel off his powdered wig and roll out a sleeping-bag in all the places that maps and local handouts would have us believe .
12 Henry could not quite work out why , since her pleasantness was not always followed by a request for money or some other favour ; perhaps she was remembering something he had quite forgotten , an incident during their courtship perhaps ( they must have had a courtship ) or a Henry , now lost to Henry himself , who could have inspired feelings such as pleasure .
13 For those widowed or bereaved in other ways , victory must have had a hollow sound .
14 She must have had a posting , or else obtained her demob while I was still at Binbrook , because I have a distinct memory of Sheila hammering nails into this crate before despatching it to her new destination , and scornfully refusing all help from J. , who was standing by with the hammer and nails .
15 The rather un-Byronic 30-year-old Dustin Hoffman must have had a similar experience on the morning of 22 December 1967 when he opened the newspapers .
16 Senior Tories believe the MP for Carshalton and Wallington must have had a very pressing reason to leave after staging such an unexpected comeback .
17 Referees and opponents who have crossed Souness during this dreadful Anfield season swear he must have had a humour and charisma bypass at the same time .
18 Flies , we can well imagine , must have had a hey-day in such an environment , and those attracted by the flesh and the dung of horses would have had to be whisked off Charles 's meat — perhaps by boys with birch whisks specially employed for the purpose .
19 This meant they must have had a hired car to take them to the airport or have gone by tube .
20 ‘ I must have had a fight every two days , ’ he said .
21 ‘ Harriet must have had a real skinful yesterday .
22 ‘ The drivers must have had a shock .
23 Miss Taylor , you must have had a very eventful life — if you could choose to live a part of that life again , which decade would you choose ?
24 My mum must have had a seizure of something when she had me — ‘ Let's call him Lenworth ! ’
25 I ca n't be sure what my face looked like when I opened it and saw Maureen on the doorstep , but I imagine it must have had a grin on it from ear to ear .
26 Perhaps it was never roofed : if so , it must have had a very high corbelled vault , either in stone or in mudbrick .
27 If state officials perform a particular action , the elite must have had a goal which that action helps .
28 Lavenham , which must have had a population approaching 1,000 and ranked as one of the dozen or so richest towns in the kingdom , went into decline following the death of the great clothier Thomas Spring in 1523 .
29 The excavator , David Neal , could not explain this as merely for domestic use and concluded that it must have had a public function .
30 One of them was two metres long and must have had a devastating effect on the plants as it browsed its way through the wet green bogs .
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