Example sentences of "[pers pn] must [verb] [been] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Dear me , I must have been asleep for … |
| 2 | I must have been unconscious for hours . |
| 3 | I must have been mad for a few hours , and I swept you up in it too . |
| 4 | ‘ You must have been asleep for a very long time , ’ he said . |
| 5 | She must have been asleep for some hours when the sound of her opening bedroom door penetrated her dreams and brought her instantly awake . |
| 6 | Sam could sing and play the concertina and violin , and he must have been good for the BBC to come all the way to Baldersdale to find him . |
| 7 | He must have been asleep for hours . |
| 8 | He must have been dead for hours . ’ |
| 9 | It must have been creepy for you , going into that empty house and finding something nasty behind the door … hey , that 'd make a title , would n't it ? |
| 10 | In the past it must have been necessary for spectators to keep well clear or be vigilant . |
| 11 | While it must have been galling for Lear , Gould took pains to ingratiate himself with the young artist , and Lear all too easily complied . |
| 12 | It must have been humiliating for her to accept that after helping him to create an empire within show business , he should choose to spend his time with a younger woman . |
| 13 | It must have been awful for Mme Wyatt . |
| 14 | It must have been terrible for him . |
| 15 | It must have been terrible for you all these years , but what a day it 'll be when Terry comes home , wo n't it ? ’ |
| 16 | It must have been terrible for her gran , wanting to explain about the Italian connection , and being unable to . |
| 17 | ‘ It must have been terrible for you when they told you there was nothing more they could do , ’ Juliet said quickly . |
| 18 | ‘ Nico , it must have been — it must have been terrible for you , loving her and losing her . |
| 19 | It must have been heartbreaking for people who had been through sensational experiences to have to recount them to politely tepid audiences and to discover that their stories conformed to an orthodox pattern . |
| 20 | A police spokesman said : ‘ The assistant has given us some vital information even though it must have been embarrassing for her . ’ |
| 21 | It must have been odd for Ralph , I thought , to feel like an intruder in his own library . |
| 22 | It must have been inconvenient for everyone . |
| 23 | It must have been distasteful for a man whose principles were always of the very highest . |
| 24 | It must have been lonely for him . |
| 25 | It must have been scary for you . |
| 26 | It must have been hard for her — uprooted and transported to a strange country — not to know what was happening to her and her mother , apart from the fact that somehow or other they 'd been able to join up again with the father . |
| 27 | It must have been hard for a short , drunken man to do at the dead of night . ’ |
| 28 | It must have been horrible for her . ’ |
| 29 | It must have been difficult for the teachers to organize things even before the arrival of the evacuees , who had problems of their own , of course , adjusting to a major change in lifestyle . |
| 30 | ‘ It must have been difficult for you , hiding Egan when Place was living with his sister . ’ |