Example sentences of "he must [verb] [be] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must have been a rather remarkable Permanent Secretary — I should like to know more about him . |
| 2 | Here I apologised to JTR and learned that he must have been a very tall man . |
| 3 | Great-Grandfather was running a farm at the same time , so he must have been a very busy man . |
| 4 | He must have been a very attractive man once , I thought , and then wondered , suddenly , if Adam had had a similar thought about me . |
| 5 | He must have been a very brotherly father , since he was only three years older — though it 's true that he was a Hungarian and a Jew , and by the age of 20 had a thousand years ' experience . |
| 6 | But erm as I say , they did er , the people did but you never got nothing off the government for it and er , I 've always said it , he must have been a much better man than I thought he was because er , er , to go as I say from what it was in those days to start his own business and that . |
| 7 | He must have been a quite remarkable man . ’ |