Example sentences of "must [verb] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There followed what must have been the longest two hours of my life . |
| 32 | My mother told my father and I think that must have been the worst time of my life . |
| 33 | The first fourteen hours must have been the worst of the journey as I was not able to sleep , whatever position I sat in . |
| 34 | We said it must have been the worst ever experience . |
| 35 | I do n't know what kind of women you 've associated with , Luke Calder , but , believe me , it must have been the wrong kind ! ’ |
| 36 | It must have been the last one left in London . |
| 37 | It must have been the last straw to a tired Lancaster crew to have home in sight , and then to be attacked by a fighter . |
| 38 | The tower must have been the last sight of land for hundreds of drowning mariners in peace and war . |
| 39 | ‘ Must have been the last time I saw him . |
| 40 | Max Beerbohm 's generation must have been the last to which the delicious syllabub was a familiar childhood treat . |
| 41 | it must have been the last he wrote — saying |
| 42 | And to slip in the mud must have been the last straw . |
| 43 | He must have been the last to drink it . |
| 44 | Erm it must have been the last day , it must have been Friday , must have been Friday . |
| 45 | They must have been the same year , for their birthdays were only two months apart . |
| 46 | But dad Craig said : ‘ It must have been the same bug . ’ |
| 47 | Must have been the same time I did my leg in . |
| 48 | It must have been the same in the early days of the Reich . ’ |
| 49 | Then , on an impulse , I retraced my steps following the run of the old water washout pipes until I found myself in the remains of what must have been the old boilerhouse . |
| 50 | Must have been the American Space Shuttle . |
| 51 | Well so I went and then they came on the Friday night it must have been the twenty twenty fifth of July ninete nineteen thirty . |
| 52 | Teague helped form what must have been the quietest back row in the history of the game when he joined up Dean Richards and Winterbottom in the 1991 Grand Slam side . |
| 53 | Coming on duty , on what must have been the third morning for our ‘ C ’ cases I met Sister Hancock coming unsteadily down from the theatre . |
| 54 | It was an amazing last 15 mins and the crowd fo nearly 38,000 must have been the biggest and noisiest for at least 10 yrs . |
| 55 | Even more off-putting , though , must have been the permanent doubt about what kind of narrative such a history would be : a celebration or an obituary ? |
| 56 | On top of which , I think Binbrook must have been the coldest RAF Station in England . |
| 57 | The other story I recall to mind about this time is that Cranwell in those days must have been the coldest spot south of the Arctic Circle and the ration of coal to fire the single stove in a billet of 22 erks took little account of the temporary hutment , Some genius had laid down that the ration of coal would he 1lb of coal every other day was sufficient to ward off armies of brass monkeys that descended on Cranwell in winter . |
| 58 | She was dressed in what must have been the formal evening style of 1915 : an indigo silk evening wrap over a slim ivory-coloured dress of some shot material that once more narrowed and ended just above her ankles . |
| 59 | One of the most spectacular sights ever seen by man must have been the mile-high fiery cascade when a lava flow poured into the Grand Canyon in Arizona . |
| 60 | He must have been the best-known and most celebrated inhabitant of Baldersdale — excepting Hannah Hauxwell , of course — within living memory . |