Example sentences of "must be [v-ing] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I 'd guess we must be getting pretty close , Chuck . |
| 2 | And I 'm telling Jackie about this , I says , d' ya know , I says , I must be getting bloody worse ! |
| 3 | Maxim woke with a slightly tender head — those blasted lieutenants and their silly jokes — and the sombre feeling that he must be getting truly old if he could no longer sleep through a normal wakey-wakey in barracks . |
| 4 | It must be getting very obvious , Gina thought , frightened by his frankness and aware that she could n't easily have told someone that . |
| 5 | ‘ Must be getting too old for this globe-trotting lark , or else my mis-spent youth is catching up on me . |
| 6 | I must be getting too old . |
| 7 | ‘ Now you know the truth , the Lady Prioress is no longer needed and Ranulf must be getting as cold as I am . ’ |
| 8 | Last night I was reading an article about wages , and I realised ( with a little male surprise ) that you must be earning about three times as much as I do . |
| 9 | The garden must be looking very nice . |
| 10 | If your weight remains constant you must be using up all your calories , but if you are gaining weight then some of the calories you consume are being stored as fat . |
| 11 | Barnum is showing for 3 weeks , but the theatre must be thinking ahead all the time . |
| 12 | ‘ I know you must be thinking very much of your father at this moment , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Neil Webb is the remaining substitute as well as substitute goalkeeper Mark Crossley and Frank Clarke must be thinking how many more injuries am I gon na get this season . |
| 14 | ‘ You must be reading too many of those French novelettes . |
| 15 | Notwithstanding Major 's valiant efforts to balance pro- and anti-Thatcher elements in his new ministerial appointments , the right must be feeling increasingly uneasy about the broad thrust of what is happening . |
| 16 | But then he said , ‘ Despite your own ability to say no to the pleasures of the moment , I suppose you must be feeling rather hurt . ’ |
| 17 | It 's not often that sponsorship pays off so handsomely , and Pick-popper Sanderson Electronics Plc must be feeling pretty pleased with itself , getting to both cup finals : its local team , Sheffield Wednesday , whose players bear the Sanderson name on their breasts , will be contesting the League Cup this weekend and the FA Cup in May — against Arsenal on both occasions . |
| 18 | She said , her voice remote , not part of herself , ‘ You must be feeling pretty awful about all this , but I 'm sure Rebecca will be well looked after . |
| 19 | You must be feeling pretty relieved . ’ |
| 20 | He looked down at the gun , which must be feeling pretty heavy . |
| 21 | ‘ Iris , if we 're on the right lines , Dora must be feeling pretty grim at the moment . |
| 22 | ‘ You must be feeling very proud today , Seb . ’ |
| 23 | Short must be feeling very depressed after this lapse , since he played a model game . |
| 24 | Five minutes went by as she reflected that Rosemary must be feeling as miserable as Travis , then , checking to see that Travis was all right as she passed , she went to bed . |
| 25 | I think that cuckoo nestlings must be doing rather more than just ‘ fooling ’ their hosts , more than just pretending to be something they are n't . |
| 26 | Yeah , but you put , you must be putting about five hours effort of a day into prospecting accounts . |
| 27 | I mean th it 's Presumably it must be putting out unburned hydrocarbons . |
| 28 | It must be going on twenty-three years old . |
| 29 | I must be going as senile as Mark H thinks . |
| 30 | They must be going absolutely mad about East Germany must n't they ? |