Example sentences of "must have [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must have practically sprinted to his house , grabbed the bottle and glasses and sprinted back again . |
| 2 | They must be qualified teachers , and in Scotland must have previously taught in an ordinary school for at least a year ( this is common practice but not compulsory in England and Wales ) . |
| 3 | It gave Spinal Tap the inspiration for ‘ Stonehenge ’ , but otherwise the Reading Festival must have barely registered beyond ‘ laughing stock ’ status in the minds of Barbara 's ‘ intelligent , discerning ’ young music fans . |
| 4 | II Maccabees is not interested in following up the destiny of the Samaritan temple , which must have indirectly benefited from the rebellion of Judas Maccabaeus . |
| 5 | ‘ He must have just gone over the fields . ’ |
| 6 | Oh it was a horse-drawn , horse-drawn , there were no cars on the road in those days , I think I was one of the earliest to get knocked down by a car actually in Walsall , I was er , when we lived in Street he came down Street and immediately opposite there was a Co-op shop opposite Birds the fruitiers , and mother sent me down to the Co-op and the old trams used to run along the Pleck to Darlaston , Wednesbury and that way on and I ran across the road , past the Co-op the tram and a car must have just bumped into me and he knocked me down , a terrible commotion amongst the folks and could n't have hurt them much , because I got up and ran off , ran off home , so they were restricted in you see and the speed they could go in the car , but the car , the tram car was stopped at the bottom of Street , almost opposite the Co-op and er I must have just run across the road run into the car and more or less bounced off it I should think . |
| 7 | It must have just lurched into life . |
| 8 | It must have just lurched into life out of a great trodden stillness of dust and damp . |
| 9 | I think he must have just looked at us as guys who could take care of themselves , no problem . ’ |
| 10 | Oh it was a horse-drawn , horse-drawn , there were no cars on the road in those days , I think I was one of the earliest to get knocked down by a car actually in Walsall , I was er , when we lived in Street he came down Street and immediately opposite there was a Co-op shop opposite Birds the fruitiers , and mother sent me down to the Co-op and the old trams used to run along the Pleck to Darlaston , Wednesbury and that way on and I ran across the road , past the Co-op the tram and a car must have just bumped into me and he knocked me down , a terrible commotion amongst the folks and could n't have hurt them much , because I got up and ran off , ran off home , so they were restricted in you see and the speed they could go in the car , but the car , the tram car was stopped at the bottom of Street , almost opposite the Co-op and er I must have just run across the road run into the car and more or less bounced off it I should think . |
| 11 | and er , well what they were saying on bus cos he had a sleep just in front of us last night , somebody said we 're Park Row and they said oh he 's asleep in front there , well that was him you see , so I reckon he comes from there , see I mean , the rest must have just come in here or King 's Lynn , well if they fell out |
| 12 | Here we have something that looks very much like a totalitarian welfare state in microcosm , and which must have powerfully contributed to Schreber 's psychosis , which featured delusions of passive submission to impregnation by an omnipotent solar god . |
| 13 | When one recalls the Emperor 's addiction to cigarettes — he was almost a chain-smoker — his rooms must have frequently appeared as places of torment to those who had business to transact there . |
| 14 | But since he was the one most involved with Vivien 's welfare , he must have either approved of , or acquiesced in , her committal ; he was also a trustee of the Haigh-Wood Estate , and was responsible with Maurice for Vivien 's financial affairs — they must , for example , have paid her bills at Northumberland House until the time of her death . |
| 15 | It must have then seemed in many ways an unresolved and unsatisfactory painting . |
| 16 | It 's eerie walking silently between these ghost summer villages that must have once echoed to children playing , women gossiping and men complaining about being paid for their labours with books of Gaelic poetry . |
| 17 | A third party has no right to accede ; the treaty must provide for accession , or the parties must have subsequently agreed to it . |
| 18 | She must have really wanted to . |
| 19 | ‘ I sometimes think now , Oh gawd , I must have really looked like a schlepp when I used to turn up at Motown or somewhere taking a punk rocky attitude with me . |
| 20 | As we trooped in for the service , the sun caught it and , for a moment , I had a virion of what it must have really looked like , all those years ago , when they nailed poor old JC up before the people , one bright day in palestine . |
| 21 | No , she must have invisibly ascended through those upwards-sloping corridors and irritating little steps , and come down again on the spiral staircase . |
| 22 | Hadrian Road was named after the Roman emperor who , we agreed , must have genetically bequeathed to us some superlative qualities . |