Example sentences of "he must [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christ , he must 've been good . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ But he must have been keen . ’ |
| 3 | He was a skilled architect who would grow used to praise , but he must have been pleased to hear that the Goldsmiths regarded his school as " not excelled by any other building of a similar construction in solidity , taste , and execution . |
| 4 | Poor man , he must have been frantic . |
| 5 | He must have been radical in religion and he favoured English support for the cause of the Netherlands , possibly being used by Sir Francis Walsingham [ q.v. ] and Robert Dudley , Earl of Leicester [ q.v. ] , to urge this policy on Burghley . |
| 6 | When they turn to the handling charge they must presume that he is not guilty of robbery ; and , if they are quite satisfied that he must have been guilty of the one offence or the other , they are bound to conclude that he was guilty of handling . |
| 7 | It was only when I did n't , and we 'd been making love without contraceptives for months and months , that I decided he must have been right . ’ |
| 8 | So he must have been convinced that there really was a lot more where that came from . |
| 9 | he was very polite but he must have been bored by me . |
| 10 | Although I realized that my faulty literary judgment was the occasion for his reaction — for he must have been well-accustomed to reading manuscripts of surpassing dullness — because when lie wrote to Wakefield-Harrey it was in firm but polite terms , which , since they were from Eliot , were to him the next best thing to commendation . |
| 11 | So he must have been elderly when this Sinai experience took place . |
| 12 | Sam could sing and play the concertina and violin , and he must have been good for the BBC to come all the way to Baldersdale to find him . |
| 13 | He must have been well over six feet tall because Jenna was not in any way small , but she felt it now . |
| 14 | IF President FW de Klerk was hoping to ease the pressure on his government by announcing the release of eight prominent prisoners on Tuesday , he must have been disappointed by the reaction . |
| 15 | ‘ He must have been disappointed . |
| 16 | If so , he must have been desperate . |
| 17 | He must have been uncomfortable at the least but he never once even laid his ears back . |
| 18 | Again Alice smelt spirits , and repressed disapproval : he must have been tired , coming in so late . |
| 19 | He must have been asleep . |
| 20 | He must have been asleep for hours . |
| 21 | Late in his recorded career he described himself as ‘ only simply lettered ’ , but his extensive citation of biblical , patristic , and canonistic authorities in both Latin and English suggests that he must have been familiar with academic sources . |
| 22 | ‘ He must have been terrified . ’ |
| 23 | He did n't elaborate on this unease but Wexford thought he must have been worried lest the two hundred and fifty was n't forthcoming . |
| 24 | I think he must have been full . |
| 25 | He knew the fine private collections that were being amassed by men like Frank Burty , who was a friend , and most of all he must have been interested in the objects bought by his painter friends . |
| 26 | He must have been interested in cooking , must n't he ? |
| 27 | He must have been dead . |
| 28 | He must have been dead for hours . ’ |
| 29 | Even is he was n't , he must have been aware that there were some yobs there . |
| 30 | To the end of his life Picasso himself did not bother to distinguish between African and Oceanic art , although he must have been aware of distinctions between the two during his contacts with the Surrealists in the 1920s , for they tended to prefer and extol the ‘ marvellous ’ properties of the latter . |