Example sentences of "but [pers pn] must have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to stare my dislike into him but I must have been unsuccessful for he merely said with a primitive accent : ‘ Good in auto , yes ? ’ and grinned . |
| 2 | We sipped them gratefully , but I must have been miles away , for Mr Johnson said , ‘ Daydreaming , eh ? ’ |
| 3 | And erm I think I was in the middle somewhere , I was n't er brilliant but I must have been somewhere in the middle I suppose . |
| 4 | There are occasional references to fullers during the 13th and 14th centuries but theirs must have been a small scale operation compared to that encountered further downstream around Cirencester . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , but you must have been a little girl once , Headmistress . |
| 6 | But you must have been sufficiently curious to check it out on a map . |
| 7 | ‘ I should like that very much , but you must have been there many times before . ’ |
| 8 | No special LIFESPAN privileges are required to use this option , but you must have been requested to endorse the SSR for specific package(s) via the Mail System . |
| 9 | I was expecting that at any minute Mum would shout down to find out what was going on but she must have been preoccupied , trying on her new frock . |
| 10 | She 'd lost of course all modesty , if she ever had any , but she must have been reared like a pig … her language was indescribably common and coarse , and whether eating , drinking , speaking , washing or even pissing , her vulgarity and idiocy were intolerable . |
| 11 | over round the left hand side in the first place , but she must have been in the wrong so they must have seen it as well , they have n't really got a strong case so they threw it out of court and last week he had a letter , he opened it , from the , from the court , and he thought oh gawld here we go again , he 's got jury service , oh |
| 12 | The young lady doctor had said ten minutes , but they must have been here twenty . |
| 13 | This group may include the distant ancestors of the sharks , but they must have been somewhat ponderous animals compared with the streamlined hunters of modern seas . |
| 14 | What types of boats were used is hard to conceive , but they must have been small and of shallow draught . |
| 15 | Perhaps they were justified in recalling early days in makeshift cinemas and perhaps they had to mingle with the masses as they went in search of Chaplin movies , but they must have been aware that prestigious down-town and suburban theatres were now largely being patronized , not exclusively by a lumpenproletariat , but rather by a mix of social classes and perhaps above all by young people who were moving up the social scale into more respectable occupations . |
| 16 | Severiano Ballesteros also had a 70 for a total of 213 but he must have been kicking himself for it included a seven at the 13th . |
| 17 | The third time she saw it Allen was with her but he must have been looking in the wrong place , for he did n't see it although she did n't understand how that could be . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I I do n't remember but he must have been . |
| 20 | Daine needed that flexibility , but he must have been aware of the risks . |
| 21 | he was very polite but he must have been bored by me . |
| 22 | ‘ But he must have been very politically conscious as well — I mean The Factory Whistle — ’ |
| 23 | I 've been looking for him all afternoon , but he must have been tied up with work . |
| 24 | ‘ But he must have been keen . ’ |
| 25 | But he must have been thinking something and I would have given anything to know what it was . |
| 26 | But he must have been ; that was why he was shirtless . |
| 27 | He did n't actually live in St Aldate 's , but he must have been here a lot , because he was mayor in 1636 , he was an alderman erm he was very much a leading in the city , and I think the leader of the opposition to Royal Policies . |
| 28 | She 'd been writing for the NME , about David Cassidy and things like that but it must have been quite a struggle to get by . |
| 29 | His notes say that it was in 1924 , but it must have been sooner , probably 1921 or 1922 , because he was back in South Africa in time to get married in 1923 . |
| 30 | But it must have been clear to him that I was not a professional escaper . |