Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] must have [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm I got down on my hands and knees I must 've done it for an hour |
| 2 | Then out to his bed in a loft over the cowshed , leaving the family to draw in together in a cosy , alien-excluding unit around the flaming and hissing timber , to lie and smoke by the light of a candle and think o better days in the orphanage and wonder in unembittered fashion — for he had been happy there — about the mother who had abandoned him and the even shadowier lover who must have abandoned her . |
| 3 | Then her face cleared ; when she had leaned across to kiss Richard she must have nudged it off , and no doubt she would find it in her car when he brought it back in the morning . |
| 4 | Kapuscinski exercises a personal charm which must have helped him to establish friendly relations with the people he met , and to gather material , and which can seem to befriend the Western reader . |
| 5 | to be honest the mess it must have left her ! |
| 6 | It went some way to repairing their damaged pride after their defeat by Swindon Town at the weekend , Mickey Inotta was there ; Mickey it must have cheered you up a bit . |
| 7 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |
| 8 | People and dogs came from as far away as Oxford to take part in this event which must have left them all fitter and leaner at the end of the day . |
| 9 | ‘ You did n't know that he acquired them through his wife who must have got them while she was housekeeper-companion to Mrs Armitage ? ’ |
| 10 | Well when Ken said about the headboard last week they were selling sheets on mini market I said pink ones and grey ones but I said not while they had the Christmas stuff in , it was before the Christmas stuff they must have taken them out you know I |
| 11 | By definition I must have seen it with someone else , but the fact that , at the time , our own coupledom was predicted only by Nostradamus was irrelevant . |
| 12 | After all , if you had been hanged , drawn and quartered at a time when such deaths were not uncommon , you would not really want to feel either the physical pain or indeed the terror which must have accompanied it ! |
| 13 | ‘ We also know that if Vechey committed suicide he must have done it in the early hours , just before dawn . |
| 14 | The town appeared very much as Wallace himself must have witnessed it . |
| 15 | Something like Crazy , Crazy Nights , though , is such a catchy song you must have known it was going to be huge … |
| 16 | For however he acquired that money he must have acquired it , Wexford was certain , during the 19th or the 20th of May . |
| 17 | At least , that was the thought I had , but for some reason I must have found it very nice because I stayed for 30 years ! ’ |
| 18 | I like the way I must have taken it out . |
| 19 | She gave me a lovely book on musical composer 's last year which must have cost her a bomb . |
| 20 | but , but he said he paid the way she must have worked it so that he |
| 21 | When he heard about Bonanza parking the Fraser girl on ice out in the country he must have figured it was his chance for the big killing . |
| 22 | ‘ But bearing in mind what a tough time they must have had they 're settling in remarkably well . |