Example sentences of "must have [been] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , I think really it must 've been thrift . |
| 2 | Part of the problem must have been competition between northern and southern universities , ’ says Irvine . |
| 3 | Well it , it must have been heart trouble the earliest memory I have of that is mother sending me with a neighbour out of Street , a Mrs , to tell my Aunt Lucy which was my dad 's sister , who lived in Street house , house was right opposite their gateway , now Aunt Lucy and there was er her family she w married a fella in and her daughter , her son and me uncle was my dad 's brother , I lived in the house with her , but er I remember tagging this Mrs from the Street down to Street along road and past the hospital , then along Walk and I up in Street , and er tagging Mrs and er Mrs had never met Aunt Lucy and er me Aunt Lucy suffered , what in those days they call it white leg , a woman 's complaint she was bedridden and er when we went in she must have asked why we were there , Mrs was a little bit flabbergasted and I blurted it out oh me dad 's dead , and me Aunt Lucy nearly went into hysterics , so that 's , that 's all I can manage I remember about that . |
| 4 | It must have been reference for Jenny to be |
| 5 | Sometimes it may seem obvious that there must have been negligence , as in the case of the purchaser of a bath bun who found a stone in the middle of it ( Chaproniere v. Mason ( 1905 C.A. ) ) . |
| 6 | There must have been text books around at one time but I can not even identify any titles let alone suppliers . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's funny that after all these years I still have n't forgotten what I 've been taught — so it must have been money well spent . ’ |
| 8 | Superficially the safe solution is to assume that nil and £1 assessments indicate journeymen and apprentices , while from about £5 most must have been master craftsmen . |
| 9 | that they did n't enjoy it and therefore it must have been rape cos they did n't wa they did n't like it . |
| 10 | For my mother , who remembered seeing her only brother , also called Robert , off to France in the First World War , never to see him again , this farewell on the platform must have been agony . |
| 11 | ‘ It must have been agony having all those things ! ’ |
| 12 | This must have been part of a Roman cemetery as again in 1926 near this spot workmen digging on the edge of Lee 's Great Quarry ( Houlder Quarry ) , 20 yards from Clements Farm found a quantity of human bones and pottery . |
| 13 | I think that , too , must have been part of an identity check , particularly as she repeated it again at the end . " |
| 14 | As emerged later from the television news , he had been visiting the front near al-Amarah , during what must have been part of the offensive named by Tehran as Muharram al-Haram . |
| 15 | So the golden apple which Hercules first brought back or gathered , from Hesperia must have been grain ; and the Gallic Hercules with links of this gold , that issue from his mouth , chains men by the ears : something which will later be discovered as a myth concerning the fields . |
| 16 | There must have been interference with performance of a contract |
| 17 | ‘ That must have been luck . ’ |
| 18 | The wind-chill temperature that night must have been way below the — -25°C ( — -13°F ) of the air temperature . |
| 19 | ROS : ( At edge of stage ) It must have been thunder . |
| 20 | Must have been quarter of an hour at least . |
| 21 | Yeah , I said yeah I am , I said I 'm gon na drive up and see , so we got in , went up to Wendy 's , you could n't see through the door Pen , Penny and Kev said well we 'll drive round as well , I said well she 's had us up and down , cos one minute she was quite strong then the next she could n't cope , I said Wendy all I want you to ever know is that I 'm there , if ever you want me phone me , I do n't care whether it 's middle of the night , middle of the morning or whatever , so she says alright , anyway Penny went up , she said she could n't see anything she thinks she 's gone a bed and then me and Rudy went up , it must have been quarter to one cos I took him for a little walk and I got out the car and walked round the back and then , I could see her curtains were open and I could see a light on , so I went round the front and I shouted through the letter box , Wen it 's only me I 've come to wish you a happy new year , let's hope next year will be better than this one and she come to the door and she was broken hearted |
| 22 | At times in the past there must have been tenderness between the members of this family ; the old lady had conceived and given birth to two children , nursed them and watched them grow into adult life . |
| 23 | I think that must have been G.P. 's doing . |
| 24 | ‘ It must have been spring . |
| 25 | It must have been noon , the time for the Angelus , and the bells of the cathedral clanging fit to break when I first caught sight of the fellow . |
| 26 | Some were growing beards and going bald which may not seem like drastic changes , but in the women there must have been side effects from changing your course of pills . |
| 27 | Badgers have got a name for being vicious creatures , but Teka has taken to people so well Maggie thinks she must have been hand reared from birth . |
| 28 | They , they we they had some guns on the castle and they were , I suppose there must have been enemy planes over . |
| 29 | He must have been fishing . |
| 30 | The decision was not costly for India — Marsh was bowled shortly afterwards — but most onlookers were convinced that Boon , when 1 , must have been lbw to Kapil Dev . |