Example sentences of "must [vb infin] taken [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's a sadistic man — he must have taken great pleasure in working over Joe last night . " |
| 2 | It must have taken supernatural greed |
| 3 | However quickly he may have acted , the actual taking of the handbag must have taken more time than seems to have been available — since Eddie Stratton and Shirley Brown were seen walking out of The Randolph almost immediately , if the evidence of at least two of you here is to be believed , the evidence of Mr Brown and Mrs Roscoe . |
| 4 | Dragging two novices with buoyancy problems looking excitedly at everything on the bottom , must have taken some stamina . |
| 5 | Although the Shorter Oxford Dictionary says that it means that the person has drunk ‘ intoxicating liquor to an extent which affects steady self-control , ’ it is arguable that the person must have taken intoxicating liquor to excess so that he has lost the power of self control . |