Example sentences of "must [vb infin] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My horse went down a couple of times when we were riding along a shallow river The hooves must 've turned up the mud at the bottom and I 'm sorry but no amount of expert preparation can help you keep cool when a 500lb horse goes down on you . |
| 2 | I know I must finish clearing up the lawn , but , before doing so , I decide to telephone Auntie to come over on her bike even though I know it will take her an hour to get here from Hambledown . |
| 3 | They must attempt to innovate over a very broad front using people and structures which are still firmly in place from the ancien régime . |
| 4 | One of the most important limitations on statutory safeguards is the insistence that , to qualify for most rights , you must have built up a specified period of continuous employment . |
| 5 | ‘ Granny 's little extortion racket must have built up a small fortune for you . ’ |
| 6 | The speed of descent must have cut down the exposure to any residual gas since he felt none of the earlier weirdness as he approached the still sealed engine room door . |
| 7 | The water really is n't that hot , usually , but my other one was fiddling with the boiler earlier — he must have turned up the thermostat . |
| 8 | In her haste to get away , she must have bundled up the documents and ledgers that she had been working on and brought them back with her . |
| 9 | The cavern was so huge that Benny thought they must have hollowed out the entire mountain . |
| 10 | The police must have carried out a very thorough search of the premises and she said , threw the book at my client . |
| 11 | Someone must have torn out the right hand page . " |
| 12 | My own present stance and the position of the boy in the bed must have thrown up the embroidered , tasselled triangle hanging in blue , white and gold on the chapel wall . |
| 13 | He must have put up a bit of a struggle , but they were a persuasive bunch , those women , and the two nans in alliance were practically irresistible . |
| 14 | The rose which mantled the house must have put out a thousand flowers and these were at the peak of their blooming , not a petal yet shed , each blossom the pink of a shell within and the pink of coral on its outer side . |
| 15 | We thought the bumpy flight must have brought on a bout of air-sickness , but it was not so . |
| 16 | The trio were modifying the trolley with implements they must have brought in the pockets of the golf-bags . |
| 17 | During the subsequent exploration of New Zealand and Australia , Green was , in Cook 's words , ‘ indefatigable in making and calculating these observations [ for latitude and longitude ] which otherwise must have taken up a great deal of my time … |
| 18 | I think I must have picked up a virus . |
| 19 | Emil , who must have picked up the same signals , spoke with a true leader 's decisiveness . |
| 20 | Next week came , and we never got that half hour , so it must have added up a lot , all throughout the year . |
| 21 | Even if that figure were now to be drastically reduced orthodox interpretations of the fossil evidence together with orthodox evolutionary theory would require that the last generalized man/ape , the " missing link " of the early Darwinian imagination , must have died out an exceedingly long time ago . |
| 22 | We must help to clear up the confusion , dismantle — where appropriate — the weapons and assist in the disposal of the fissile material . |