Example sentences of "[pers pn] must [vb infin] be a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Sometimes I think I must have been a horse in a previous incarnation . " |
| 2 | ‘ You must have been a success , ’ Aunt Emily said . |
| 3 | But it made me think you must have been a friend of Hugh 's . |
| 4 | ‘ You must have been a kid in school ! |
| 5 | Although Mr Cross was perturbed at his strange encounter , he dismissed his consternation and decided that she must have been a village girl who had watched the train and then returned home . |
| 6 | I figured she must have been a masochist . |
| 7 | ‘ She must have been a woman of great taste . ’ |
| 8 | she left that and she 's gone to do her midwifery and now when she gets the other day she was looking at old pay slips God , she must have been an idiot to give up a sister 's post cos she said her wages have dropped terrible to do this course ! |
| 9 | What we must achieve is a balance . |
| 10 | A task has been allocated to the human operator and what he must do is a function of the needs of the hardware . |
| 11 | ‘ He must have been a lunatic . ’ |
| 12 | He must have been a fool for her er , you know ? |
| 13 | We always see that aspect , but we forget that first he must have been a warrior too . |
| 14 | Earlier biographies tend to suffer from the ‘ he was a genius therefore he must have been a saint ’ syndrome . |
| 15 | Well he star I think probably the first He must have been a joiner for a wee while before he was you were just asked to do this the same I suppose as any other job any other joiner job |
| 16 | I think if I 'm just a splinter out of his head , then he must have been a bit like me , not much though . ’ |
| 17 | Under his guidance the little group shared his special feeling for Rembrandt , who painted Jewish faces from the Amsterdam ghetto with such humanity that Modigliani insisted he must have been a Jew . |
| 18 | He must have been a knock-out when he was young . |
| 19 | He must have been a Catholic , because he was gabbling Ave 's . |
| 20 | He must have been a stranger to the village , that was why she was telling him . |
| 21 | On the other hand , he must have been a disappointment to his dynastically inclined father and mother since he never showed any aspirations for political office despite their encouragement . |
| 22 | He appeared slight standing next to the sergeant major , although he must have been a shade over six feet himself . |
| 23 | Mind you the title was a bit funny because it did n't Almost an Angel but if he died and he went to heaven , then he must have been an angel but came back down , he 's still an angel . |
| 24 | It must 've been a belt that 's come right through central London and completely missed the suburbs , or North London anyway suburbs |
| 25 | It must have been a bit of a culture shock for him . |
| 26 | It must have been a bit painful . |
| 27 | It must have been a bit of a shock to her . |
| 28 | ‘ I thought it must have been a road block because one said to the other : ‘ Go for it ’ and they speeded up . |
| 29 | In the morning , Jack related his experience to his wife who listened sympathetically but reassured him that it must have been a nightmare . |
| 30 | It must have been a truce . |