Example sentences of "must have be [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At all periods there must have been recognised places in a locality where goods could have been acquired or disposed of . |
| 2 | ‘ You must have been collecting antiques quite a while . ’ |
| 3 | I had only just noticed her — so I must have been taking things seriously — but she was worth waiting to be polite to . |
| 4 | The fact that after the Great War the Liberal party went into decline and the Labour party emerged as a governmental party seemed to indicate that the most interesting developments must have been taking place on the left of British politics , even before the war . |
| 5 | ‘ They must have been meeting places for The Hell Fire Club he discovered . ’ |
| 6 | The procedure is only available for proposed and not completed mergers and the merger proposal must have been made public . |
| 7 | Thus he must have been singing falsetto in this role . |
| 8 | I can remember Leslie coming home , I think I must have been expecting Doreen at the time , that was in , that was early early on , nineteen , well that was nineteen sixty three , and he was , he had heard that had I had been in the Gatehouse Drama Club , and er he said , Would I be interested in com in coming to the Drama in if they started ? |
| 9 | You must have been expecting trouble . ’ |
| 10 | You must have been imagining things . |
| 11 | Must have been built m Georgian times . ’ |
| 12 | I knew that Vecchi 's reason for shooting Mahoney was something that must have been worrying Mr. Bonanza . |
| 13 | Importance of contacts : Sir Patrick is quite happy with the thought that one of BP 's intentions in inviting him to join its board must have been to gain access to his little black book . |
| 14 | Their structure was by no means on a sound footing by the 1560 's however , and heeding what must have been glowing reports from England , and having seen for themselves good samples of the ore , they were probably quite eager to invest in the English adventure . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , they must have been selling flowers for ages , Luke . |
| 16 | The child was born to what must have been exhausted parents , strained to their physical and mental limits , and it never lived to see another year ; in the December of 1771 the nameless infant was buried on Catherine Hill — the first occupant of plot number 119 , but certainly not the last . |
| 17 | ‘ Your imagination must have been playing tricks . ’ |
| 18 | The subject was taken from contemporary life and the chief musical interest lies in the treatment not of the amorous gentry but of the hero 's four comic servants and their sons , and the peasants at a fair , who sing partly in dialect : and in a quick recitative with many repeated notes which must have been performed quasi-parlando . |
| 19 | Stuart said the girl must have been leading Oliver on and being provocative , I said she was probably shy and terrified by these advances from her teacher , until we both realised neither of us had set eyes on the girl or knew what had happened . |
| 20 | Anyway , we kept blowing in , and we must have been doing mouth to mouth for about eighteen er about a mi a minute and a half . |
| 21 | The big problem for anybody watching the opening ceremony must have been suppressing whoops of hysterical laughter . |
| 22 | He must have been chopping wood outside and forgotten to hide it . |
| 23 | Vaults with a ground-level diameter of 9 metres or so , such as the one at Platanos ( Figure 53C ) , were certainly technically feasible ; they must have been imposing structures in their original state . |
| 24 | Therefore Neill LJ must have been contemplating protection by an express restrictive covenant of confidential information in respect of which an obligation against use or disclosure after the determination of the employment could not be implied . |
| 25 | ‘ Yet you must have been keeping watch on the house — why ? ’ |
| 26 | They must have been unpacking Rice Crispies . |