Example sentences of "must [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( One must presume he saw the answer had to be one half of 100 x 101 . ) |
| 2 | ‘ I must know what happened to you down there on Moloch . |
| 3 | For him to learn anything from it , he must know who wrote it . |
| 4 | But I must know who killed my daughter . |
| 5 | ‘ Look , ’ she said , ‘ if you must know I went to a party , got a bit wet , borrowed some clothes and came home . |
| 6 | It was no problem for me to post a crew , and I did , and many of you must know I did post WAAF at the same time . |
| 7 | Not only was he enjoying trying to blame the fire on Lisa , when surely he must know she had enough problems already , but that reference to ‘ poor , downtrodden Nigel ’ was almost shocking in its coldness . |
| 8 | She must know she had been overheard . |
| 9 | He knew he must buy what meant something to her , however ugly . |
| 10 | Moreover , since the speaker chose to say my uncle rather than I have an uncle and he … , we must assume she did n't feel the need to assert the information . |
| 11 | ‘ We must assume he took her completely by surprise . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You must believe I did n't want this to happen . ’ |
| 13 | This can be a costly solution because it may result in the involvement of staff who must forgo their needed rest period or the employment of nurses from an inappropriate grade . |
| 14 | Furthermore , he must keep them informed about progress of the project — what they will get , when they will get it , and what it will cost . |
| 15 | ‘ You must keep him locked up . |
| 16 | ‘ You must understand I left Spain before my tenth birthday and have never been back since . |
| 17 | Er , I 've had a word with Jeremy about decorating , oh Florrie I must apologise I did try to ring you , I think I managed to get everybody else , erm but you were n't there , in and then I , I left it I regret to say , erm but we thought perhaps we ought to have the kitchen re-decorated and I 've had a word with Jereminy , Jereminy , Jeremy and he says about two hundred pounds and I did get permission from some of you and I 've gone ahead and asked him to do it and he said about three weeks , but before we can have that done , in the meantime , the roof leaked again out in the kitchen Erm , so I 've had a word with Peter who was going on holiday and he should be home this week and he said he will look at it as soon as he 's home , so I 'll give him a ring , I 'll try tomorrow night , I 'm out tonight , I 'll try and give him a ring tomorrow . |
| 18 | We must confess we did n't even bother calling Intel Corp last issue so it could confirm or deny our story of severe allocations of Pentiums throughout all of 1993 ( UX No 418 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ I must confess I had n't participated in any giant financial coups . |
| 20 | Now , I must confess I had n't seen much of Mr Wogan before I met him because , when I got my television set at Low Birk Hatt , Richard Megstone , the nice young gentleman who looked after the Youth Hostel in Baldersdale and kindly took care of my electrical things , said I had a choice — either BBC1 or Channel 4 . |
| 21 | I must confess I gobbled the meat down and I did n't notice the bone until it was too late . |
| 22 | The feeling swept over me that I had truly left Darlington Hall behind , and I must confess I did feel a slight sense of alarm — a sense aggravated by the feeling that I was perhaps not on the correct road at all , but speeding off in totally the wrong direction into a wilderness . |
| 23 | I must confess I did n't enjoy others at all . |
| 24 | He 's he 's a quick nimble defender Speedy was just hanging hanging on waiting for the ball to be played into him and I must confess I did n't really see anything afterwards I mean well if you look at that that does n't seem anything untoward does it ? |
| 25 | I must confess I did nt see much of the first 60 mins ( football training ! ) . |
| 26 | International aid donors meeting in Paris this week to discuss cutting payments to that far-flung little country — once a bulwark against communism , today a relic of one-partyism — must wish they knew exactly what . |
| 27 | He must wish he had rather more economic success to report this year , but the thought remains valid . |
| 28 | ‘ You must wish you 'd bought more from him . ’ |
| 29 | Well they must have been just well they must have I did n't see them |
| 30 | It was all motion , always moving … so I suppose that must mean I did n't stop ; not really . |