Example sentences of "must have been [v-ing] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must have been looking for me because a few seconds later she spotted me and came over . |
| 2 | I must have been chatting to him for about 20 minutes and he told me he 'd needed an urgent lift . |
| 3 | I suppose he must have been choosing between them . |
| 4 | It must have been irritating for you . " |
| 5 | ‘ Whoever did it must have been aiming at her head but thankfully they missed . |
| 6 | They must have been moving alongside us in cover , taking our measure , and they had two archers ahead , one either side the track . |
| 7 | But someone must have been slipping amongst them like a stoat , noting , memorizing , carrying word stealthily to the Duke of Atholl . |
| 8 | I must say that I feel Charles Greenwich must have been joking in his reply . |
| 9 | All this time I had had to try hard not to think of what my parents must have been feeling about my going away . |
| 10 | When it touched Parker it had evidently acquired a tremendous spin , and for a second it must have been spinning beneath me . |
| 11 | I thought she must have been waiting for someone … ’ |
| 12 | Grant got the impression that Larsen must have been waiting for his signal , like a sprinter crouched in his blocks waiting for the starter 's gun to launch him into motion . |
| 13 | It was held that since the buyer knew much more about Persia than the seller , he must have been relying on his own judgment as to whether the tractors were suitable for the Persian market . |
| 14 | It must have been playing on her mind . |
| 15 | ‘ We agreed she must have been talking to someone … ’ |
| 16 | LOYAL Bluemen like you and Malcolm Brodie must have been crying in your beer when Bangor turned Linfield over yet again this week . |
| 17 | He must have been working on it in January 1948 at the latest , since the book was sent to the printers in the second week of February . |
| 18 | We were walk walking to erm the , down the high street and a plane went over , and erm , I think mum must have been saying to her about Aunty Jill being on holiday , and she went , ah , there 's Aunty Jill in the plane going to the city . |