Example sentences of "it must [verb] been about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , he 's , he 's into ev oh it must 've been about six or eight weeks ago he started saying a couple of things and I thought oh he 's coming now , but it stopped I think I got excited when he started saying dark , but that 's as far as it got , int it ? |
| 2 | It must have been about four years ago we 'd come . |
| 3 | it must have been about four or five o'clock in morning , and now we never hear any traffic . |
| 4 | It must have been about two yards deep and three yards across . |
| 5 | Father was given the rod by friends at West Linton , near Edinburgh , and it must have been about fifty years old at least , when it came into my possession . |
| 6 | ‘ My father tied with another man at an Old Newton furrow-drawing match : both had a quarter-inch deviation — it must have been about sixty years ago . |
| 7 | It must have been about nineteen thirty-seven or eight . |
| 8 | Non-existent until about I should n't think there was an a bus did come to the bottom of Road , I ca n't remember what was , it must have been about nineteen twenty I suppose something like that , it used to go to the bottom of Road and turn round there , but I never er my mother always used to say you 'd ruin the trade , the trade down well I do n't believe it did really er now I think the lack of transport now you 've hit something there , lack of transport there encouraged people to shop in Green rather to go down the town cos you could get anything off Green you know , you just think you 'd ju you , you smiled about the er butcher 's shops , the grocer 's shops , the cake shops , you could get the gents , you could get anything on Green the ironmonger shop , you need n't go anywhere else but , when they started transport er yes I think the buses had quite a bit gradually cos things that , you do n't think get things happening in this country overnight I mean , they grow on you do n't they ? |
| 9 | It must have been about fifteen to twenty feet deep and a few feet across . |
| 10 | It must have been about 9.30 one evening when the cell hatch opened and they said , ‘ Mills , you 've got bail . |
| 11 | The water came up to my cross-bar of my bike so it must have been about three feet deep . |
| 12 | for Apple Macintosh Computers erm it must have been about three or four years ago . |
| 13 | Erm well we put two cats through as well so erm I think it all in all with the flights out and the flights back and the quarantine it must have been about three thousand pounds . |