Example sentences of "[pron] must have [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Among them must have been many new men pushing up from below .
2 Feeding me must have been painful , and perhaps therefore an unpleasant emotional experience .
3 If pig butchers kept piggy banks , his must have been empty once in a while during this period …
4 I must have been asleep .
5 When he returned with the blankets I must have been asleep .
6 ‘ Dear me , I must have been asleep for …
7 If he did I must have been asleep .
8 I think maybe I must have been Spanish in some former life — I feel as though I 've come home . ’
9 I must have been tired , she said to herself reasonably .
10 I must have been desperate !
11 As I can remember very little about the rest of the day I presume that I must have been unconscious most of the time .
12 I must have been unconscious for hours .
13 I must have been unconscious a long time .
14 ‘ Idiot that I was , I was crass enough to insist , since I could n't see her privately ; to push her into a corner and tell her … tell her — oh , lord , I must have been mental ! — that if I could n't see her privately I would n't see her ever again . ’
15 I must have been half-mad .
16 I must have been 13 .
17 I tried to stare my dislike into him but I must have been unsuccessful for he merely said with a primitive accent : ‘ Good in auto , yes ? ’ and grinned .
18 I must have been six or seven — something like that — and we had drawing lessons once a week , taken , believe it or not , by a Mr Moore .
19 I must have been jealous of her life away from me , and wished to have her entirely to myself .
20 I must have been wrong I suppose .
21 " I think I must have been mad , " said Mrs Denham , taking off the tea pot lid and staring nervously into its smoky silver depths .
22 I must have been mad to kill him !
23 I must have been mad on the strength of one fish , going all out boilies but it was a double and I just had a feeling this was how the better fish might fall .
24 I must have been mad for a few hours , and I swept you up in it too .
25 Her face flaming , Luce muttered , ‘ I must have been mad to let you seduce me . ’
26 I guess I must have been frightened but it all happened so quickly .
27 Looking back on it , I 've decided I must have been clear round the bend !
28 I must have been crackers even to think it ! ’
29 I must have been tight .
30 I 'd look better blonde and I assumed that I could wash the colour out before my parents saw : I must have been naive to think that bleach would affect my hair differently from anything else .
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