Example sentences of "must [vb infin] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must think I 've just crawled out of my crib ! ’ |
| 2 | And we must make it pay as much as we can . |
| 3 | Who and how many people we imprison , for how long and in what conditions are questions that politicians and sentencers must answer ; those in the prisons must make it work as well as they can . |
| 4 | And the reason I would come up with would be that it must make you feel stonkingly great . |
| 5 | She told herself that she must confine herself to anger only , but it was easier said than done . |
| 6 | To draw unemployment benefit in an off-season a seasonal worker must show he has already had , or can reasonably expect to obtain , a substantial amount of employment during the current off-season — normally at least one quarter of that period . |
| 7 | ‘ Any party who seeks to charge an accounting party with an amount beyond that which he has by his account admitted to have received or who alleges that any item in his account is erroneous in respect of amount or in any other respect must give him notice thereof stating , so far as he is able , the amount sought to be charged with brief particulars thereof or , as the case may be , the grounds for alleging that the item is erroneous . |
| 8 | He looked at Rachel , said curtly , ‘ Miss Swift , I must insist we speak privately . ’ |
| 9 | erm I must confess I 've always had rather a soft spot for macro mutations , I do n't know why , it may have had something to do with Goldsmith 's prose , which is sort of rather moving when you get into it , erm and partly , and this is an interesting comment as an aside , that I knew as an undergraduate that to argue in favour of Goldsmith would make my teachers in general , and Professor J B S Halldane in particular , exceedingly angry and making one 's teachers angry is , after all , one of the activities into which undergraduates should occasionally go . |
| 10 | She is a handsome woman , intelligent , articulate and faithful to inflexible socialist principles , which I must confess I have never shared . |
| 11 | International aid donors meeting in Paris this week to discuss cutting payments to that far-flung little country — once a bulwark against communism , today a relic of one-partyism — must wish they knew exactly what . |
| 12 | He must wish he had rather more economic success to report this year , but the thought remains valid . |
| 13 | It must have something to do also with the close shave that Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Malcolm Bruce was given in Gordon , where his majority was trimmed by 9,000 . |
| 14 | But the old animals must have it see like th for fitness . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , I must admit it looks very like Elsie . |
| 16 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |
| 17 | I then , in true sneaky Aussie fashion , hired two young men who were willing to hold a fictitious conversation in a pub that Ryan frequented , which I must admit I thought rather a nice touch . |
| 18 | ‘ The situation has been eased slightly for my parents since a community nurse has been visiting Jennifer , but I must admit I 'd rapidly been coming to the conclusion that something else would be needed very soon . |
| 19 | I must admit I 've never I did n't have any surprise that I was I wanted a a deposit cheque . |
| 20 | I must admit I 've never seen anything like that on schools . |
| 21 | I must admit I get very glum sometimes . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ The debate on poverty has ground to a halt since the new government came into power and TAFOS must get it going again . ’ |
| 23 | " Well , you must put her to sleep immediately . |
| 24 | The noises insisted upon her serving her sentence : she must allow them to sound violently fortissimo for an hour . |
| 25 | But murder it is , and whatever leniency is called for must find itself reflected either in a verdict of not guilty by a jury , despite the facts , in the sentence of the court ( though in England the sentence is at present fixed by law ) , or in the exercise of some executive discretion . |
| 26 | For a start it 's got a village atmosphere which I must say we find rather agreeable . |
| 27 | I I must say I 've also been er you know very very impressed and er learnt quite a lot just attending these courses that you 've you 've got running here . |
| 28 | I must say I 've only grown two maincrop this year , I 've been clearing some new ground and I 've just grown King Edward and Pink Fir Apple , I 've got the biggest biggest Pink Fir Apples you have ever seen bar none but I 'm coming back to you now Fred , I put to you a few minutes ago , your personal recommendations for the best three or four or five potatoes for the different cooking purposes . |
| 29 | ‘ But I must say I 've never seen him quite so — ’ |
| 30 | I must say I 've almost forgotten what they look like . |