Example sentences of "must [vb infin] been in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh it was a dreadful thing when you come to think of it now , the poor women could n't help it she was must have been in desperate straits to do a thing like that . |
| 2 | Aaron 's mother , Lesley , 26 , said : ‘ He was very calm and must have been in great pain . |
| 3 | You must have been in full-time employment for a fixed time before you can claim ? |
| 4 | Coming back , as always , to the Jurassic , one has only to compare the 30 ammonite zones represented in one foot of sediment in Sicily with the 15 000 feet representing a single zone in Oregon , to realise how startlingly different rates of deposition must have been in different places . |
| 5 | By the middle of 1802 , as the family house and shop passed into other hands , Ben was left alone with only sisters for company ; Elizabeth , the eldest , had very recently married , and little brother must have been in imminent danger of succumbing to the petticoat government of Mary and Sarah . |