Example sentences of "must have [vb pp] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dan must have built it with just that fantasy in focus , to keep some bust-out bimbo with a big ass and chichis in a style befitting Little Freakin' Egypt . |
| 2 | Someone of great influence in Britain must have exercised it on his behalf but who did so is not known . |
| 3 | He tells us — largely as he must have heard it from the horse 's mouth — the history of programmed machines , the development of McCarthy 's own interest in combining human common sense with the brute number-crunching force of early computers , and how this led to his own contributions , perhaps the best-known of which is the invention of LISP , now the standard programming language of artificial intelligence . |
| 4 | My friend must have heard it from him , and after you left remembered and telephoned me . |
| 5 | It then took me a while to realise the significance of it , but at last I remembered it had been around Dora Belle 's neck , the person who murdered Perk and she must have placed it in Perk 's hand when she buried her . |
| 6 | Not half as much as I am of you ! thought Henry , as he ran his eyes down the rest of the manuscript ( she must have written it before going to sleep ) . |
| 7 | This is the wrong side , they must have rewound it without meaning to . |
| 8 | " He must have made it for us ! " |
| 9 | ‘ You must have done it for a good reason . |
| 10 | ‘ We also know that if Vechey committed suicide he must have done it in the early hours , just before dawn . |
| 11 | By definition I must have seen it with someone else , but the fact that , at the time , our own coupledom was predicted only by Nostradamus was irrelevant . |
| 12 | If she had thought she was showing him a stop-light , however , he must have seen it as a green one , for his arm suddenly tightened and there was a definite amorous gleam in his eye as he edged closer to her and breathed seductively , ‘ I like you so much , Fabia . ’ |
| 13 | She must have seen it on some of the murdered woman 's belongings when you first entered the priory but she probably could not place it immediately . |
| 14 | She felt she must have seen it in a dream . |
| 15 | But an EastEnders spokesman reckons its a load of blarney : ‘ He must have said it as a joke . |
| 16 | You must have read it in a woman 's magazine . ’ |
| 17 | In washing her hands after breakfast she had taken off her wedding ring and must have left it on the side of the basin . |
| 18 | Just a minute — oh , bother , I must have left it at home . |
| 19 | You must have left it at home . ’ |
| 20 | I must have left it off the hook this morning . |
| 21 | I must have left it in my handbag and somebody 's stolen it . ’ |
| 22 | I thought he must have left it in that place round the point , Halfway House . |
| 23 | And we must have caught it from there . |
| 24 | She must have borrowed it off Derby ! |
| 25 | Since the parents are presumed to be native speakers of Dominican French Creole , ( they probably speak a variety of Caribbean English as well ) the Bradford Dominican speakers of JC must have acquired it through peer contact in their own community — where Jamaicans are a minority . |
| 26 | In R v Mehmed [ 1963 ] Crim LR 780 where the accused had an air pistol which he produced in another 's private house , it would be reasonable to assume that he must have carried it in a public place to get it there or to take it away . |
| 27 | You must have knocked it over yourself ! ’ |
| 28 | Must have found it in someone 's file . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I did n't steal your money , you stupid bitch , you must have put it in the wrong apron . ’ |
| 30 | Oh yeah , somebody must have been there , you must have put it in yourself , you must have done . |