Example sentences of "[coord] must have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pupils must be aged between 13 and 18 years and must have studied French for at least three years . |
| 2 | When the Scots came south , this fellow was probably in their retinue and must have searched Irvine out . ’ |
| 3 | The same waves reached Hawaii in the central Pacific less than 5 hours later and must have travelled at a speed of 740 km per hour . |
| 4 | You were John Mayall 's longest-serving side man , and must have seen a good few guitarists and drummers come and go … |
| 5 | I 've been family member for twelve years and must have seen a thousand children , and of those , barely fifty had both their natural mother and father ! |
| 6 | She said , ‘ A place of that size must contain thousands ; and must have to feed thousands . |
| 7 | Life too never came from inorganic matter , and must have reached the Earth from elsewhere . |
| 8 | This was clearly untrue and must have cost votes . |
| 9 | This independence and opportunity for large profit must have been the most important distinction between riches and grinding poverty and must have played a greater part in creating the economic hierarchy of rural society than any other factor . |
| 10 | He glanced at her , and must have recognized the feelings that were laid out frankly on her own face , for her slipped his arm round her and kissed her . |
| 11 | McLeish found himself shocked by this piece of feminine sharpness and must have registered something because his sergeant blushed . |
| 12 | They were in the throes of obtaining a contract to build 87 hawker Furies , the first military order placed outside the close knit ring of SBAC constructors , and must have felt this was where their immediate future lay . |
| 13 | Wasim Akram finished with 6 for 67 and an uncontrollable grin , and must have felt that this , of all his dramatic performances , must have won an important match . |
| 14 | She may have done : it is surprising , and must have struck contemporaries as highly suspicious , that vengeance was not taken on the murderers . |
| 15 | Jumped ‘ The gunman got out of a window and must have jumped at least 25 feet to the ground . |
| 16 | He hated changing in front of others — and this from a man who played rugby with fourteen other men week in week out for years and must have huddled with them in the cramped and corrugated spaces of dressing rooms up and down the country . |
| 17 | Dr Lee has recently pointed out that although the resources which went into the exporting industries could have been channelled elsewhere , the return would almost certainly have been less : " An eighteenth-century economy without resource to trade would have been smaller , less diversified and must have generated less growth even than the modest rate of increase actually achieved . " |
| 18 | I was pretty mad and must have sounded that way . |
| 19 | This was strong language , and must have swayed many who would have liked to uphold the religious tradition of burying the body whole to await resurrection . |
| 20 | ‘ He was yelling out in terror and must have run 50 yards before two blokes caught him and rolled him about the pavement to put the flames out . ’ |
| 21 | Cave was older than the rest of the party , and the only one with knowledge of Iran ; he also suffered from a bad back , and must have landed with a fierce combination of jet-lag , suspicion and pain . |
| 22 | Since he did not have the physical strength of most of the others , this was important for him and must have contributed a lot to his effectiveness . |
| 23 | It was about five miles round and must have resembled a spinning top , floating above this anonymous planet . |
| 24 | The sloping wings were originally squared off and must have made the house look even taller . |
| 25 | He will have to have reached 65 and must have retired . |
| 26 | Turakina was her daughter , and must have spoken to her . |
| 27 | The building had originally been a manor house and must have looked beautiful in its heyday . |
| 28 | He only liked large men around him and must have looked askance at small Welshmen like T. E. Thomas and G. D. Morgan . |
| 29 | The England coach , who is also assistant to Ian McGeechan on the Lions tour to New Zealand this summer , and who has been in Scotland since last Thursday , admitted yesterday that the Scots ' performance against Wales ‘ had been very impressive and must have surprised quite a few people , especially down south ’ . |
| 30 | The man smiled at the girl and must have passed some friendly remark , for she looked at him agreeably before returning to her inspection of the petticoats . |