Example sentences of "he must have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aethelred 's parents had been married in 762 , so he will only have been about 11 when he became king on Alhred 's expulsion and those around him must have exercised real power . |
| 2 | He must have gone mad or deaf . |
| 3 | He probably went twice to Spain with Scipio Aemilianus , in 151 and in 134 ; on his first journey he must have visited southern France , including Marseilles ( Polyb. 3.59.7 ) . |
| 4 | Nothing certain is known of Hammond 's career from then until the eve of the civil war , but he must have seen military service in the continental wars , either in the Netherlands or Germany , since he was a trained gunnery officer before 1642 . |
| 5 | He must have fallen asleep during the Jane Russell film . |
| 6 | If , however , Shakespeare did actually exist , then he must have possessed certain attributes that made him the kind of existent he was , even though no attributes that he may have had would have been sufficient to individuate him in a metaphysical sense . |
| 7 | There is no record of Jamie Macrae 's early career but he must have made steady progress . |
| 8 | True to form , Orwell in his notes on Waugh disapprovingly named snobbery and Catholicism as the two driving forces of the novel , and as a secular radical he must have felt obliged to reprobate the one as much as the other . |
| 9 | He must have felt sorry he had saved the life of his enemy 's son . |
| 10 | My mother went down the yard and seen the boss and asked him if he could get and the fact that my mother went down the yard I suppose er he must have felt sorry for us . |
| 11 | ‘ When I saw that he had drunk it all , I knew he must have felt bad . |
| 12 | It is clear to all of us that he must have discarded poor Lina … ’ |
| 13 | One sentry almost drowned on his feet , for the wind had pinned him against a rock , and he could not free himself or even turn his face into shelter , while it dashed into his mouth and nostrils unceasing volleys of rain so heavy that he could not get his breath ; and if two of his companions who had their backs turned upon the blast had not been cast against him , and so afforded his face shelter enough to breathe , he must have died spread-eagled there . |
| 14 | He must have lain awake all night . |
| 15 | He 's a sadistic man — he must have taken great pleasure in working over Joe last night . " |
| 16 | There remained the peculiar business of the poetry book , which he must have had ready to puzzle me . |
| 17 | ‘ Bank robbery is a very serious crime and he must have known considerable violence would be involved as he provided the sledge hammer , ’ said Judge Hart . |
| 18 | They watched him trying to free himself , as he must have tried countless times before . |