Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pers pn] must [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a study of potential nursing home residents it was observed that the old people were likely to undergo a major psychological upheaval as they realised that they must soon give up their own homes and accept institutionalisation for the rest of their lives ( Tobin and Lieberman , 1976 ) . |
| 2 | Morse had never seen Mrs Marion Kemp , but from the marriage photograph that hung in the living room he realised that she must once have been quite a vivacious woman : dark , curly hair ; slim , firm figure ; and curiously impudent , puckish eyes . |
| 3 | He termed this new pattern of systematized organization ‘ bureaucracy ’ , and argued that it must progressively supplant all rival systems of administration in a modern society because of its technical superiority in tackling problems and marshalling large-scale activity in a purposeful way . |
| 4 | She stipulated that it must never have been involved in an accident . |
| 5 | Although Hazel guessed that they must now have gone further from the warren than any rabbit he had ever talked to , he was not sure whether they were yet safely away : and it was while he was wondering — not for the first time — whether he could hear sounds of pursuit that he first noticed the dark masses of the trees and the brook disappearing among them . |
| 6 | Anne wept for him and for Kathleen , who must be told the news , and decided that she must definitely find out where Kathleen was and visit her . |
| 7 | The more she thought about it , the more clearly she saw that she must somehow get a warning to Tristram . |
| 8 | For that reason alone , the Communist party saw that it must either stop Mosley now or else perhaps lose all chance of a populist vote in its own support . |
| 9 | She hardly knew what she was saying ; only knew that she must somehow rouse him to movement . |
| 10 | McAllister knew that she must truly love him , for that could be the only reason why she could allow him , a man , to touch her at all . |
| 11 | Meanwhile the little tailor , aided by the little grey man , had stroked the glass case containing the castle with the two feathers from the cock and hen , and with a strange rushing and rumbling the castle appeared as it must always have been , with noble staircases and innumerable doors . |
| 12 | Odd-Knut said that you must never let go of the sledge , I say again and again to myself as I am pulled through snow heaps and ruts . |