Example sentences of "though [pers pn] must have be " in BNC.

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1 No wonder poor Dad was embarrassed , even though I must have been repeating something that he himself had said .
2 Though I must have been around just at that time , I think .
3 However , there are two exceptions : the Magellanic Clouds , so named because they were recorded by the Portuguese explorer Magellan in his voyage round the world — though they must have been noticed earlier , because they are very bright — and the Large Cloud is visible with the naked eye even in moonlight .
4 A police spokesman said : ‘ The assistant has given us some vital information even though it must have been embarrassing for her . ’
5 Even though it must have been obvious that he would not hold to it at the last , the threat was enough to make Stormy Petrel veer again to her original course , and though she was trying to increase speed , and was perhaps a little more powerful than Sea Otter , we , on our straight line , could hold her comfortably .
6 The advertisement pages of The Scotsman in the golden Edwardian afternoon carried long columns of vacancies for parlourmaids , cooks and housemaids ( so it is not surprising , though it must have been a source of irritation , that male printers hostile to women entering the trade often urged them to look for work " in service " ) .
7 Though it must have been copied from a photograph or something …
8 ‘ I though it must have been because they were accusing each other of sleeping with each other 's husbands , ’ said McLean .
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