Example sentences of "[pers pn] must [vb infin] [been] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must have been chatting to him for about 20 minutes and he told me he 'd needed an urgent lift . |
| 2 | No and we 'd got three young girls , new , new girls and I saw those and I must have been thinking about Mandy and the car because they said something about oh when we leave we 're all going on a picnic to and I think it was Kettering or quite some time aw some |
| 3 | I must have been walking for nearly an hour , he thought . |
| 4 | There are a few conditions ; you must have been sailing within the area or bands briefed by the flotilla skipper , timing starts when the lead boat acknowledges the failure , and you must return to UK with a report signed by the flotilla skipper detailing the circumstances . |
| 5 | You must have been listening to the B.B.C. or something . ’ |
| 6 | Well you must have been going during the day while I was at work then . |
| 7 | I THINK you must have been going to small moneylenders to be quoted interest rates of this sort . |
| 8 | It was him she must have been thinking of . |
| 9 | She must have been thinking of Steven ( bridegroom 's name ) . |
| 10 | She suddenly became aware that she must have been thinking of Naylor Massingham for quite a bit of the journey , when she was all at once incredibly jolted by a question that flashed into her head out of nowhere . |
| 11 | She must have been looking for me because a few seconds later she spotted me and came over . |
| 12 | And it gets in your hair and it gets in your clothes , she must have been listening to the television . |
| 13 | Because Edith now Edith was going away for some unknown reason , I do n't know , she must have been going on another holiday anyhow . |
| 14 | She must have been going for the six o'clock train , and she was probably in a dickens of a rush when … ’ |
| 15 | she was nearly retiring by the , no still the girls go to her at the school so she must have been going for , two or three years after we came up here , but I would be in the choir just , maybe two or three years . |
| 16 | She must have been sitting over the phone . |
| 17 | And in this last day , she must have been camping about , I do n't know how , but somehow she was traversing I she probably did n't she was using the living room as a store , I could only think that , she could n't possibly live in it . |
| 18 | ‘ We agreed she must have been talking to someone … ’ |
| 19 | I thought she must have been waiting for someone … ’ |
| 20 | She must have been waiting for some time . |
| 21 | Choose one of the four and try to work out what he or she must have been doing at each stage of the carnival . |
| 22 | They must have been watching from a hill-top as I rode towards them because suddenly I was surrounded by a company of about 40 soldiers , all aged between 17 and 18 years . |
| 23 | Master Thomas said they must have been looking for people , not things , and thought you should be warned , so … ’ |
| 24 | They must have been singing for , though Sharpe could hear nothing , he could see their mouths opening and closing in unison . |
| 25 | They must have been riding for a long time , but there was no sign of a large town , only a solitary light shining ahead . |
| 26 | They must have been moving alongside us in cover , taking our measure , and they had two archers ahead , one either side the track . |
| 27 | They must have been waiting in a car , as neither wore an overcoat and both were suddenly there smack in front of me , blocking the pavement , tantalizingly close to home . |
| 28 | The Rhodesia Metals case was referred to in the Hang Seng Bank case [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 306 and it follows that when Lord Bridge used the words ‘ place where the property was let ’ he must have been referring to the place where the property let was situated and not to the place or places where the lease happened to have been signed . |
| 29 | He must have been gouging for half an hour when an idea seemed to strike him . |
| 30 | He must have been looking for the keys . |