Example sentences of "must [vb infin] [verb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I sometimes wonder what people must think to hear him haggling over a few dollars . |
| 2 | Yeah well by then you 'd , you 'd already messed him up , she must 've got him to sleep before she put him down in the cot did she ? |
| 3 | Certainly my personal reaction when hearing of the unexpected death of someone I know has always been , ‘ I must wait to have it confirmed in some sort of irrevocable way because I 'm sure I must have got it wrong ’ . |
| 4 | Algy must remember to ask you to come next time I give a little party for her . |
| 5 | Your issue concentrated too much on women deploring male violence : if men are to become less violent , women must stop requiring them to enslave themselves to the industrial machine in order to support a family . |
| 6 | We must try to help ourselves to come to terms with the changes in farming , but if the present position persists , farmers in rural areas will not be seen to be working in line with the avowed aim of my right hon. Friend the Minister of a good environmental policy mixed with good farming . |
| 7 | When a horse is shy of any object , and reluctant to approach it , the rider must try to make him feel that there is nothing terrible in it , especially to a horse of spirit ; but if he can not succeed , the rider must himself touch that which appears so alarming , and lead the horse up gently to it . |
| 8 | Of course , you can not hope to provide them with everything they need , but you must try to provide something to encourage them to come to your microhabitat . |
| 9 | ‘ But they must try to get themselves sorted out to the extent they have at least a working relationship . |
| 10 | You must have heard me say them . |
| 11 | But she must have heard me say so , because at seven she came down and said she 'd overlooked this marvellous Stockhausen concert on Two — well , I just put on my coat and flung out of the house … |
| 12 | and this that and the other but people must have heard what went on and and you know the next morning they 'd see a black eye and just carry out a normal conversation as though |
| 13 | He must have heard what happened because he never came back . |
| 14 | Somebody 'll come in a minute ; they must have heard us come in . ’ |
| 15 | They must have felt they had secured his future when a Treasury pension of £50 per annum was obtained for him in April 1766 , but his letters continue to reveal his financial anxiety . |
| 16 | Married to a sickly wife , then having to cope as a widower with a daughter who suffered fits frequently , finding work difficult to obtain , Thomas Titford must have felt he had enough crosses to bear for one lifetime . |
| 17 | The English pundit , John Reason , hardly gives the impression that endearing himself to Scots is high among his priorities , but many surely enjoyed his observation that , by the time Dume had peeled away the last player obscuring his verdict , Turnbull must have felt he had been down there longer than Tutankhamen . |
| 18 | That comes from Milton 's Latin Treaties on Christian Doctrine , and you can see he certainly must have felt he 'd found his subject . |
| 19 | ‘ There 's already one Banks Island just north of Australia , but Cook must have liked him to name another after him . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ But they must have realised something had been going on ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ There is no doubt , the prosecution suggests , that this young defendant must have realised what had happened , but witnesses saw him accelerate away . ’ |
| 22 | You must have realised we do have them . ’ |
| 23 | He must have realised he has a tail … ’ |
| 24 | He must have realised you did n't know about Paul and he was n't prepared to blacken my name in any way . ’ |
| 25 | She maintains the " only " thing she did on business while in hospital was answer letters , which , given the number she received , must have kept her occupied for a fair portion of the day . |
| 26 | A savage anger rose , but she must have kept it hidden , because Giles did n't appear to notice anything wrong . |
| 27 | June must have noticed me staring at her . |
| 28 | Unable to imagine anyone travelling for pleasure , or out of curiosity , they assumed that the king of England must have sent her to discover and redress their grievances . |
| 29 | After all , something must have made me do it , pointless and unjustified as it seemed now ; perhaps if I went over it all again carefully , I could find out that the truth did n't condemn me out of hand . |
| 30 | The physical contact which He must have had with them when reclining at table ( compare John 13:25 ) and which He obviously never dreamed of disallowing ( Luke 7:38 , 39 ) must have made them feel clean and acceptable ’ ( Nolan 1976:39 ) . |