Example sentences of "must have [vb pp] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they were neither wholly water-resistant nor airtight some very unpleasant odours must have arisen from below . |
| 2 | He must have stood at least two inches over six feet , and his obvious physical strength caused an unfamiliar quivering to start up deep inside her . |
| 3 | For the next few years American audiences were shown aspects of their society that they could never have expected to have encountered at the movies and it must have struck at least some members of the public that film-going had become a more serious business . |
| 4 | It must have represented at least three weeks wages for the average man in the village . |
| 5 | All the time she dashed through the streets , fighting her way through the hubbub , Wilson looked for Mr Browning , knowing he must have heard by now and would surely be rushing to his wife 's side . |
| 6 | The essay , on ‘ The Dangers of Smoking ’ , had cost Hank a number of Sundays of hard work , and he estimated that he must have smoked at least eight packs of cigarettes while writing it , but to his astonishment it had won him a hundred dollars . |
| 7 | Nameless Lives : Sir Robert Peel ( 1788-1850 ) , who became Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1812 after Spencer Perceval was assassinated and Lord Liverpool became Prime Minister for what must have felt for ever . |
| 8 | Now in in the bakery at that time it was one of the most progressive bakeries in the city and it must have employed at least about a hundred bakers . |
| 9 | ‘ Lucas must have fitted in well with the other three there , ’ Finn observed . |
| 10 | J. says I must have eaten at least three of the pounds myself , but that 's just his usual exaggeration . |
| 11 | We can contemplate many pictures of large-wheeled carts , for example , and a few scraps of them remain ; but the details of land transport are still obscure , though we become ever more aware how much must have travelled on exceedingly inadequate roads . |
| 12 | But in the nature of averages the price on some other island(s) must have risen by less than 5 per cent . |
| 13 | Not all of these widows would have had dependent children of course , but a significant proportion must have done as there were 460 children under 14 in the 403 households in this group . |
| 14 | You must have guessed by now that 1-2-3 for Windows is n't the best Windows spreadsheet on the market . |
| 15 | ‘ You 've no idea where he must have gone to when he came back from London ? ’ |
| 16 | They must have gone at least three miles along the Atherton Road already . |
| 17 | But actually , even with an alarm system you must have gone through where you 've heard alarms ringing all day and nobody 's been . |
| 18 | It was during this visit that I realized what people must have gone through simply to immigrate to the United States . |
| 19 | ‘ His plane must have gone by now . ’ |
| 20 | He must have gone by now . |
| 21 | He must have gone in somewhere near midstream . |
| 22 | Where the employee works less than 16 hours , but more than eight hours , a week , her continuous employment must have begun at least five years before the qualifying date . |
| 23 | Jumped ‘ The gunman got out of a window and must have jumped at least 25 feet to the ground . |
| 24 | Thus , after two days in which a negotiated settlement to the original squabble seemed possible , an ultimatum to the Vietminh to clear out of Haiphong in two hours led to a bombardment which must have killed at least 1,000 people , many if not most of whom would be described as innocent civilians . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , it must have wandered in here by mistake . ’ |
| 26 | They must have drawn at least 2 games then . |
| 27 | In India , where continued hegemony was now the consideration paramount above all others in the minds of British politicians , a wholehearted attempt at such a policy , by one so well qualified to pursue it , must have seemed at least worth a try . |
| 28 | He must have come at least a mile across the fields and climbed over a stock-proof fence . ’ |
| 29 | Paul 's teaching must have come with all the more force to his original hearers . |
| 30 | Hidden for centuries under plaster , the architrave of the main doorway is now revealed to be a monumental inscription from the time of the Emperor Trajan , which must have come from either the Roman baths or the imperial mint , both of which are nearby . |