Example sentences of "i must [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was n't scared of him , he was only a skinny little thing ; I suppose I must 've loved him . |
| 2 | Then the weather got cold and I must 've realized it was nice havin' warm feet 'cos Mam said she never had no trouble with me after that . |
| 3 | And erm I got down on my hands and knees I must 've done it for an hour |
| 4 | I ai n't been to no doctor 's , well I 'm lying I had to go again , I had to like because I 've been getting these here bloody , I must 've had them ten or fifteen year or more and , cos I 'm on these here tablets now for the old stomach like , and that like . |
| 5 | I suppose that bearded bloke must 'ave dropped it , I suppose I must 'ave picked it up without thinking and that I went off with it in an absent-minded way . |
| 6 | I must go to join them . ’ |
| 7 | I must choose to give it all back to you and to feel the happy liberation of unpossessiveness . |
| 8 | ‘ All right , but Marcus and I must go , I must telephone to say we 're coming . ’ |
| 9 | And now , my dear Sir , having said this much on behalf of this deserving Youth , I must beg to assure you that however zealous my wish to be the means of serving him and his poor Mother , I do not wish , on that account , to influence you — Quite the contrary — I know that in similar cases , your benevolent views have been disappointed , and , perhaps , you have consequently made arrangements for the Future which may render it ineligible to take any youth in the same way as proposed to his Brother — even if you have at present — or are likely in course of a year or two — to have a vacancy . |
| 10 | And when I think of my daughters growing up in that atmosphere , in that society , I feel I must try to avoid it if in any way I can . |
| 11 | I must have heard it , ’ he began , but she cut him short . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've swallowed — I must have swallowed him — ’ There was a bitter taste in her mouth , a dusty lumpy bitter taste of lemons and ashes dissolving , dissolving … |
| 13 | ‘ I must have given it them ? ’ |
| 14 | It was dark , by then , but they have them new electric lights there , so I must have seen him . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I suppose I must have touched him many times before , but not consciously or deliberately . |
| 17 | She asked me about him , and I must have said it was a boy , and he was resting . |
| 18 | I must have studied her with attention for I find that I can at this moment , however reluctantly , see her face before me as distinctly as though I was still sitting in that coffee bar with a quarter of an inch of the brown dregs left in my cup . |
| 19 | I assume I must have made it because when the noise of movement outside wakes me four hours later that is where I am . |
| 20 | The wolves were real enough , although there are times when I think I must have imagined them . |
| 21 | I must have imagined it . |
| 22 | I must have strained it or something playing with the kids . |
| 23 | So I must have wanted them , you see . |
| 24 | I must have killed him , Culley thought . |
| 25 | ‘ Lots of people say it must be easy for my family to carry on in music and that I must have taught them everything — but I feel they just inherited their love of music as it 's in our blood . ’ |
| 26 | Edna , blind since birth , said : ‘ I must have hit him at least 12 times . |
| 27 | I must have missed you , cos if I went past Britannia , and I thought ooh they 'll probably still be in there |
| 28 | I says what curling tongs , says you left curling tongs on , I 'd actually burnt my finger I must 've sleepwalked and I , I felt the bed when I remembered all this and it was dry so I must have sleepwalked it all and went to the toilet and done my hair cos there was a big burn all down my finger . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , I suppose I must have met her , then , if you say so , but somehow I ca n't remember anything about her . ’ |
| 30 | This is an avouching which is ( a ) about the past , and ( b ) not based on evidence ( as would be the sentence ‘ I must have emptied it yesterday ’ uttered on finding it empty ) . |