Example sentences of "it must have " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a time when it must have seemed to many of them that he would never receive a bad review , or even a cross word . |
| 2 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 3 | It must have taken her an awful lot to write those words , and they were why I felt I could go back and see her now . |
| 4 | ‘ It must have been like this in Arkaig when my father first went there , ’ Cameron said to Menzies . |
| 5 | It must have been lucky to escape the sickles , he mused , as he watched its clumsy struggling across the cut stalks . |
| 6 | It must have come from Colin 's collection . |
| 7 | While I was away it must have rained . |
| 8 | It must have cost the earth , package and all . |
| 9 | Once a hop 's lost its ‘ rub ’ then it 's no use for brewing — it must have an oily stickiness . ’ |
| 10 | He had picked up the pieces after the war and it must have come as a total shock to someone with his background to find players in his side who rocked the boat . |
| 11 | That meant , or so I like to flatter myself , that it must have struck some chord with at least one practising politician . |
| 12 | It must have been something out of the ordinary because even a player of his vast experience was affected by it . |
| 13 | Kerry Evans said at Shrewsbury Crown Court that he asked Edward Browning about the blood , and was told that it must have come from an animal he had hit while driving to Scotland . |
| 14 | For the chick , it must have been like suddenly landing in the Sahara . |
| 15 | It must have been a male tree for there was no sign of the drooping clusters of yellow fruit that female trees would now be bearing . |
| 16 | Bathing huts , a steam engine , cavalry on manoeuvre and beached fishing boats : it must have been lovely . |
| 17 | It must have been about fifteen to twenty feet deep and a few feet across . |
| 18 | It must have been all over in a few seconds . |
| 19 | In view of the vastness of Russia and the striking parochialism of the localities , it must have been hard to whip up yet more sympathy and funds for remote peasants in the Lower Volga . |
| 20 | There was a time , no doubt — it must have been before 1948 , when the United Kingdom itself abolished allegiance as the basis of citizenship — when the pretence of daughter monarchies around the globe was harmless and even arguably beneficial . |
| 21 | Therefore Carol 's daughter is not Julie , whilst Donna was taken to see Mary Poppins , so it must have been Linda who went with Carol to see Jungle Book . |
| 22 | It must have been the last one left in London . |
| 23 | Blimy , I said , it must have for you in there . |
| 24 | She 'd been writing for the NME , about David Cassidy and things like that but it must have been quite a struggle to get by . |
| 25 | In fact it must have always been his intention , after this grand restructuring to retire , and in 1980 the PS elected Diop to be party president . |
| 26 | ‘ It must have fallen that way . |
| 27 | I should have told you earlier but it must have slipped the old mind . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It must have been the timing that was out all along . ’ |
| 29 | Well , it must have been my day as with half an hour to go I had just got to the end of my swim when the float buried and the elastic shot out . |
| 30 | It must have made front-page news . |