Example sentences of "must have been [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third time she saw it Allen was with her but he must have been looking in the wrong place , for he did n't see it although she did n't understand how that could be . |
| 2 | Had the German attack been mounted on 12 February , as planned , the French , caught as it were in transit — for though now aware of the impending peril they were only beginning to bring up reinforcements — must have been overcome in a total and horrible manner . |
| 3 | ‘ The person who put this together must have been living in a box for the last 10 years . ’ |
| 4 | A groan went up that Charlie reckoned must have been heard in the middle of Edinburgh . |
| 5 | ‘ How she was able to effect all this ’ , her nephew writes in his Memoir , ‘ is surprising , for she had no separate study to repair to , and most of the work must have been done in the general sitting-room , subject to all kinds of casual interruptions . |
| 6 | Notice to produce the document must have been given in order to render oral evidence of it admissible ; it must be shown that the document existed , is or was in the possession of the other side , and that the original would have been admissible and relevant . |
| 7 | Many a promising liaison must have been nipped in the bud by Algernon being a duffer at flower arranging or breaking the significant corn stalk with a clumsy tweak ; and many a passion choked to premature death because Augusta absentmindedly pinched the petals off her posy of moss rosebuds and myrtle . |
| 8 | A wooden mansion was quite an inviting residence : it consisted of the saloon of a large ship that must have been wrecked in the neighbourhood . |
| 9 | I came to the conclusion that my hunch had been right , but that the ditches must have been dug in mid-Victorian times and the earth piled on the track , putting all the older items out of detecting range . |
| 10 | But it was open , I mean it must have been fenced in some way later on . |
| 11 | He must have been born in the middle ‘ thirties , when hunger was already rampant . |
| 12 | Birth dates are not given on marriage certificates , only ages , and his mother 's was there as twenty-five , which meant she must have been born in 1926 and have been twenty-seven when he was born . |
| 13 | It was recorded as early as 1749 , by the French astronomer Legentil , though presumably it must have been noticed in more ancient times . |
| 14 | But , fully clothed , he must have been reading in the sitting-room — or maybe he had just come in — when he too had heard the sound of a car crash . |
| 15 | I must say that I feel Charles Greenwich must have been joking in his reply . |
| 16 | Over that time , it must have been cooked in an enormous variety of ways . |
| 17 | To constitute an offence under those sections the waste must have been deposited on an unlicensed site or in breach of the conditions in the licence , must amount to an ‘ environmental hazard ’ and must have been deposited in such circumstances or for such a period that whoever deposited it there may reasonably be assumed to have abandoned it there or to have brought it there for the purpose of its being disposed as waste . |
| 18 | Found hidden in a cist at Ballynaughton were 74 coins , the latest of which was an Elizabeth issue before 1561 , so they must have been deposited in the early part of her reign . |
| 19 | This explains the abundance of deltaic sediments in the stratigraphical record of the continental areas , but one must also expect that such sediments will either not exceed a critical maximum thickness , such as that suggested above , or they must have been deposited in a tectonically subsiding trough . |
| 20 | The mercantile agent in disposing of the goods must have been acting in the ordinary course of business of a mercantile agent . |
| 21 | It must have been killed in an avalanche or died in a blizzard earlier in the winter . |
| 22 | ‘ You must have been blown in there by the blast of the bomb . |
| 23 | He must have been hiding in the back room behind the stage all the time . |
| 24 | It is in domestic architecture that Ostia provides the most interesting revelations for here are astonishingly well preserved remains of insulae , the tenement blocks which must have been constructed in quantity in Rome itself and , since Ostia is so near and as it had such close association with the capital , probably of a very similar character . |
| 25 | The information must have been imparted in circumstances importing an obligation of confidence . |
| 26 | Secondly , it must have been imparted in circumstances importing an obligation of confidence . |
| 27 | And that payment before the day might be more beneficial , and consequently that the plea was in substance good , and this must have been decided in the case . |
| 28 | If the Gospel was written by the John Mark who is mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles , then it must have been written in the first generation of the Christian Church , between 35 and 75 AD . |
| 29 | In A Song to David , which must have been written in the asylum , as it was publicised soon after his release , David , who represents the poet and is thus a symbol for Smart himself , leads the hymn of Adoration in which all Creation joins , every creature making his individual and characteristic contribution . |
| 30 | Only Pliny the Elder interrupts the silence by telling us that a Zachalias Babyloniensis — surely a Jew called Zacharias — wrote a book dedicated to Mithridates ( Eupator ? ) on the influence of precious stones on human destiny : this must have been written in Greek ( N.H. 37.60.169 ) . |