Example sentences of "someone must [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The downstairs was inches deep in sherry bottles , newspapers , strange men 's shoes , and someone must 've lit a fire in the kitchen because there was a big black patch on the floor , as if a rocket had taken off . |
| 2 | Someone must have asked the employers which they meant , and so they had to plump . |
| 3 | ‘ Someone must have met her . |
| 4 | Someone must have made the list . . |
| 5 | So someone must have made them . ’ |
| 6 | Someone must have killed Brown and the antique dealer … ’ |
| 7 | Someone must have sent the papers and I ca n't see that the corporals did it . |
| 8 | Someone must have blown them or snuffed them , because the darkness was sudden and almost complete . |
| 9 | Someone must have done some extensive informing , because MacLane picked Susan and me out of the crowd without even the pretence of looking around for the usual suspects . |
| 10 | Sue thinks someone must have loved me as Pete loves her . |
| 11 | Someone must have said it , I suppose — that Lilith was Adam 's first wife , I mean . ’ |
| 12 | The wind whipped the words away and they were lost in the gale but someone must have heard the banging . |
| 13 | A detached house with an integral garage , a cellar and a Volvo of that colour — someone must have seen something . ’ |
| 14 | Detective Sergeant Roger Coe , who is heading the investigation , said : ‘ Someone must have seen something , this was at a very busy time of the day , right in the town centre . |
| 15 | Someone must have seen something . |
| 16 | Someone must have seen me getting out of Philip Stacey 's car one night . ’ |
| 17 | Someone must have seen her . |
| 18 | Someone must have seen the boy that night . |
| 19 | ‘ Someone must have seen this . |
| 20 | This time — at last — someone must have noticed what was happening to me . |
| 21 | Someone must have noticed her . |
| 22 | She said today : ‘ I lay there thinking someone must have got there before me . ’ |
| 23 | Someone , somewhere must have been concerned for and worried about these unfortunate children and found their absence odd ; surely too , someone must have paid their fare and seen them off on their journey . |
| 24 | Someone must have buried them when they were too frightened to hand them in to the police station . |
| 25 | Someone must have thought it was a bright idea , though . |
| 26 | Someone must have torn out the right hand page . " |
| 27 | ‘ Someone must have died , ’ said Lydia . |
| 28 | Someone must have brought it here for a purpose , but I must admit it looks abandoned . |
| 29 | Someone must have nicked it . |
| 30 | ‘ Someone must have stolen it . ’ |