Example sentences of "but it must have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No but it must 've been talking about youngsters having cars |
| 2 | morning , but it must 've been alright because er he was going off with David , I said you got tablets for him and she said yeah plenty of stuff for him , anyway , he seemed , he looked alright anyhow |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But it must have been clear to him that I was not a professional escaper . |
| 6 | ‘ I can not recall the dates but it must have been in the very late twenties if I was still at school , because I left just as soon as I could when I made up fourteen . |
| 7 | But it must have been very difficult to start with … |
| 8 | Not all can be traced to the Black Death , but it must have been a significant factor . |
| 9 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 10 | It is not known where the Gospel was written but it must have been written for a Jewish Christian community . |
| 11 | It 's bad enough now , but it must have been really something when it was occupied . |
| 12 | I do n't know when the first visit was , but it must have been very recent , possibly within a few days of your , er , release . ’ |
| 13 | ( Another of their bans , on duelling with Jews , may seem less deplorable because of its practical results , but it must have been even more humiliating . ) |
| 14 | But it must have been a temptation in poor working-class communities , where virginity in any case was not sacred , where the stigma against extra-marital sex was weak , and where a prostitute could earn in half an hour what a respectable girl might earn in a week . |
| 15 | Our press date prevents us giving details of this run but it must have been quite a spectacle if it went ahead as reported , and would have provided a fitting finale to an outstanding season of operations . |
| 16 | How long it took the different ancestors of these very different animals to evolve such tongues we do not know for there is no fossil evidence of any antiquity to tell us , but it must have been several million years . |
| 17 | But it must have been short-lived . |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps not a Jacobite Guinea ; but it must have been something worth having . ’ |
| 19 | I 'm rather surprised that but there you are this this er this stuff this is coming they were both being one and another er put here and er um um I suppose the idea is that the er two people should be fairly good but I think it 's going somewhere and as I say it 's down again … let's see what else has gone er the the this is just I do n't know how she di ’ how they did this but it must have been fairly hard when they did it and er I think there is n't v-very much there I think . ’ |
| 20 | I do n't know what time it was but it must have been late . ’ |
| 21 | Anything would do , but it must have been used by him . |
| 22 | As late as 1863 he could still assure his mother that he might turn his attention to almost any subject , but it must have been around this time that a first decision in favour of classics was taken , even though it was not until 1865 at Leipzig that his academic specialization became complete . |
| 23 | But it must have been based upon replicating entities with power over their own future . |
| 24 | It is difficult to visualize now , but it must have been within this pavilion that the young Roshanara consulted her spies as she reclined on carpets beside the gently bubbling irrigation runnels . |
| 25 | Its satin ribbons were worn and the gold paint was flaking , but it must have been lovely once with its tear-drop pearls artfully placed on the cheek . |
| 26 | ‘ But it must have been very frightening , what you must have gone through . |
| 27 | I do n't know what they fell out over , but it must have been serious . |
| 28 | ‘ But it must have been obvious ! ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't know , but it must have been pretty good ! ’ |
| 30 | We do n't know exactly where but it must have been close , as he dragged himself home to his favourite spot on the lawn where his life ebbed out of him in the quiet of the night . |