Example sentences of "must have be [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Must have been looking for a house . |
| 2 | He must have been looking for the keys . |
| 3 | The third time she saw it Allen was with her but he must have been looking in the wrong place , for he did n't see it although she did n't understand how that could be . |
| 4 | ‘ The person who put this together must have been living in a box for the last 10 years . ’ |
| 5 | There are a few conditions ; you must have been sailing within the area or bands briefed by the flotilla skipper , timing starts when the lead boat acknowledges the failure , and you must return to UK with a report signed by the flotilla skipper detailing the circumstances . |
| 6 | Ward must have been thinking along the same lines , for as the road flattened out and the mist began to glimmer with a strange brightness , he said something about the Promised Land . |
| 7 | They must have been riding for a long time , but there was no sign of a large town , only a solitary light shining ahead . |
| 8 | But , fully clothed , he must have been reading in the sitting-room — or maybe he had just come in — when he too had heard the sound of a car crash . |
| 9 | The mercantile agent in disposing of the goods must have been acting in the ordinary course of business of a mercantile agent . |
| 10 | The Rhodesia Metals case was referred to in the Hang Seng Bank case [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 306 and it follows that when Lord Bridge used the words ‘ place where the property was let ’ he must have been referring to the place where the property let was situated and not to the place or places where the lease happened to have been signed . |
| 11 | They must have been watching from a hill-top as I rode towards them because suddenly I was surrounded by a company of about 40 soldiers , all aged between 17 and 18 years . |
| 12 | He must have been hiding in the back room behind the stage all the time . |
| 13 | You must have been listening to the B.B.C. or something . ’ |
| 14 | And it gets in your hair and it gets in your clothes , she must have been listening to the television . |
| 15 | Whoever it was must have been waiting by the telephone for the call . |
| 16 | They must have been waiting in a car , as neither wore an overcoat and both were suddenly there smack in front of me , blocking the pavement , tantalizingly close to home . |
| 17 | Then she looked swiftly , secretly with her large eyes back to where Conchis must have been sitting at the harpsichord , and then again at me . |
| 18 | She must have been sitting over the phone . |
| 19 | She must have been going for the six o'clock train , and she was probably in a dickens of a rush when … ’ |
| 20 | Well you must have been going during the day while I was at work then . |
| 21 | Members must have been trading in the UK for at least two years and must disclose their turnover and profits — lack of profits are not a bar to membership however , he added , because ‘ we would hate to disallow the big international business machine companies ’ . |
| 22 | He must have been lurking in the church hall , though I could n't see him properly in that dark corner . |
| 23 | ‘ The assassin must have been lying on the ground or Father standing on some steps ? |
| 24 | ‘ It must have been lying in the ferns and took fright when I came along . ’ |
| 25 | He must have been working on the paper about the same time as he was writing the papers of Totem and Taboo , or just afterwards . |
| 26 | ‘ I think it must have been coming from the cold of the church into the warmth , or , perhaps — ’ and she made a wan attempt at humour — ‘ it might have been the thought of attending the ladies ’ sewing circle which overcame me ! ’ |
| 27 | But other accounts of Summerchild 's death must have been appearing in the newspapers somewhere , because a little further on there is another cutting from The Times . |