Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] must have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to me now that I must have been more than a little simple , because I received a telephone call from the home the very next day . |
| 2 | My expressing some Fear of being troublesome in coming so frequently , occasioned a great Variety of Invitations , both in Verse and Prose ; which I could seldom resist : And indeed her whole Behaviour to me was so extremely good-natur 'd and obliging , that I must have been the most ungrateful Person in the World , if I had not endeavour 'd to make some Return . |
| 3 | I had kept all the abuse that had been happening to me very much to myself — it seemed to me that I must have been very bad . |
| 4 | As I can remember very little about the rest of the day I presume that I must have been unconscious most of the time . |
| 5 | But I think I can take it that I must have been a little — er — unsteady with my actions . |
| 6 | ‘ For once , not Rosemary , though I 'm getting more and more desperate about not knowing what to do for the best , ’ he confessed , but went on to explain , ‘ I spent a lot of time yesterday in realising that I must have been a real wet blanket when Naylor announced your engagement on Saturday . ’ |
| 7 | But from what we know of local practices It would seem that she must have been crucified Very near an ant-hill . |
| 8 | But then she found that she must have been without noticing , for she discovered that there was writing everywhere which she could read without even trying . |
| 9 | Others , that she must have been born with it . |
| 10 | She had hinted darkly that Wilson herself must be to blame , that she must have been weak , must not have written plain enough and as she had been instructed . |
| 11 | One would have thought that she must have been brought in from that area . |
| 12 | He concluded that she must have been reading modern novels . ) |
| 13 | Workmen on the site had tried to catch the under-nourished dog , but had n't managed to get anywhere near her — they all thought that she must have been very badly abused because she was so terrified of people . |
| 14 | Only that she must have been holding out on him all these years , that she did have memories which she had covered up or , to give her the benefit of the doubt , conveniently forgotten about . |
| 15 | Although Mr Cross was perturbed at his strange encounter , he dismissed his consternation and decided that she must have been a village girl who had watched the train and then returned home . |
| 16 | My sister-in-law answered , so quickly that she must have been right beside the telephone . |
| 17 | But , hearing nothing more , she decided that she must have been mistaken and went back to sleep . |
| 18 | ‘ Where 's Beuno ? ’ asked Betty casually , and Lydia realised that she must have been silently asking that all the way from the farmhouse . |
| 19 | I told myself that she must have been drugged . |
| 20 | Yet they were here today in gratifying numbers , a double row of Larks looking very bronzed and weathered from striding over those ancestral acres , which men like her husband and Lizzie Braithwaite 's husband could never possess ; and their cousin , Colonel Covington-Pym , Master of Foxhounds , with his rather glorious , highly intimidating wife , a tall , red-haired woman who could be seen in Frizingley sometimes wearing a black riding-habit so tight that she must have been stitched into it — Linnet said — and mounted on a colossus of a horse very nearly the same colour as her hair . |
| 21 | She thought of Jonathan , but decided that she must have been too angry and hurt , because she could only manage to summon up the blurriest of images of him . |
| 22 | She suddenly became aware that she must have been thinking of Naylor Massingham for quite a bit of the journey , when she was all at once incredibly jolted by a question that flashed into her head out of nowhere . |
| 23 | A second or two later though and she realised that she must have been mistaken , for his look was suddenly more mocking than anything when , ‘ In a word , ’ he lobbed back at her , ‘ fantastic . ’ |
| 24 | I sa I said about half past three , that she must have been enjoying it because she never once came to me |
| 25 | Thus , where substantial quantities of the same material equipment or products are discovered , archaeologists tend to assume that they must have been produced by the same people . |
| 26 | That fact alone makes it clear that they must have been preceded into the air by other vegetarian forms which , judging from the primitive nature of their anatomy , were probably cockroaches , grasshoppers , locusts and crickets . |
| 27 | This confused Benny at first , until she realized that they must have been going deeper into the complex , while Froebe would have assumed she was making for the outside . |
| 28 | Although the nature of the vagotomies surveyes in these reports is not stated , the follow up period is such that they must have been truncal vagotomies . |
| 29 | And he concluded , quite soberly , that they must have been visited by muse . |
| 30 | And he went to them , and he found that they had n't a clue what they 'd written , and he concluded , quite soberly , that they must have been visited by a Muse . |