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 . |