Example sentences of "must have [be] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she went on a party of three , no , no , she went with a party of four friends I think , there were five of them altogether and er she stayed for well er , three nights , four days , or four days , three nights I ca n't remember no , it must have been four days , four nights , three days . |
| 2 | So I 'm zooming down , which I thought must have been fifty mile an hour , but it was probably only about five really , or ten , but er put the brake on for the platform to stop , no chance , it just kept going . |
| 3 | An anonymous telephone call to the police must have been one option ; but that seemed unlikely because in that case the police would already be here . |
| 4 | ‘ It must have been one hell of a party . |
| 5 | This must have been one hell of a shock , and you 're overwrought , that 's all . |
| 6 | ‘ By the time the doors opened there must have been 100 people . |
| 7 | Charlie heard the words , ‘ Carry on , Sergeant-Major , ’ and a moment later a man who must have been six feet six inches in height , and whose beer-barrel chest was covered in medal ribbons , took a pace forward . |
| 8 | Although my father was six foot two , Geoffrey Archer seemed a real giant ; he must have been six foot four and broad in proportion , but he was a kind giant , having an instinctive sympathy with small boys . |
| 9 | He must have been six foot four , with a frame to match . |
| 10 | It must have been six months ago , when he started stealing money from his uncle . ’ |
| 11 | The wave must have been fifteen feet high . |
| 12 | The thing — it must have been five metres across — rippled its flanges invitingly and eased right to where we stood . |
| 13 | There must have been 5,000 head corralled into convoy formation by a quartet of big black dogs . |
| 14 | But Malcolm Brodie , who must have been 80 yards away and looking at the player 's back , could say the goal was quite rightly disallowed . |
| 15 | It must have been two month old . |
| 16 | Finally he suggested that Mr Hancock must have been 180 degrees off-course . |
| 17 | There must have been twenty men on the back of the lorry in masks and carnival costumes . |
| 18 | She had never been on a train before and the speed , which must have been twenty miles an hour , made her as excited as a child . |
| 19 | It is the singular most difficult shot in golf — he must have been 50 yards from the pin with a soft lie and he had all the trap to clear . |
| 20 | On we went , it must have been three hours by now . |
| 21 | I 'd been teaching in Preston it must have been three years then , and when I read that book I suddenly realized I knew nothing about Lancashire at all — not the real Lancashire . |
| 22 | The last of the finals was on Saturday night ( after a luncheon at the Rivercrest Country Club ) , with works of Chopin , Brahms and Rachmaninov that we had come to know and love ; and there must have been 700 people at the Forth Worth Club party afterwards . |
| 23 | There was a heel-bone , in particular , which Dr Macleod said was such , that if the foot was in proportion , it must have been twenty-seven inches long . |