Example sentences of "it must [verb] [be] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must 've been her . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It must 've been someone walking home from the pub . ’ |
| 3 | It must have been something out of the ordinary because even a player of his vast experience was affected by it . |
| 4 | ‘ It must have been something awful , ’ she said . |
| 5 | It must have been something he 'd seen his mother do . |
| 6 | ‘ I knew it must have been something like that . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It must have been something important to break a friendship over . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps not a Jacobite Guinea ; but it must have been something worth having . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You do n't put an empty box in a safe ; there must have been something in it when it was put there and the lavender sachet makes me think it must have been something of sentimental value . ’ |
| 10 | It must have been something of a shock to her system . |
| 11 | It must have been something like that ; Charles was beginning to understand the way Paul Lexington worked . |
| 12 | I seemed to recall that in the past when we 'd met we 'd got on reasonably well , so I assumed that it must have been something that Jennifer had told you that had turned you against me , or , failing that , that you were just embarrassed at having to work with your sister 's ex-fiancé . ’ |
| 13 | But it must have been something connected to the the French when the they said it was French polishing . |
| 14 | It must have been something I was doing . |
| 15 | Why was he ( and it must have been him ) so quick in sending off horsemen early on the morning of 19th March to check on the King 's safety ? |
| 16 | it 's a very erm uncommon name so it must have been him or one of his relations . |
| 17 | But I , the other day I wondered who it was and it must have been him cos he was in Alan 's office . |
| 18 | It must have been their sheer size and the impression of power you got even when they were standing still . |
| 19 | Somebody who knew us must have given a list of our names to the Germans , and it must have been somebody from Fontanellato . |
| 20 | It must have been somebody from the village . |
| 21 | well , somebody found it down by the river just at the back of where they live so it must have been somebody round about |
| 22 | Who the other call was to Jihan has never revealed , but it is certain that it must have been someone of the highest importance , and that her purpose was to obtain from the most authoritative source possible some outside indication of what was happening in Egypt . |
| 23 | It must have been someone who Marius — who Marius — ’ she sobbed . |
| 24 | It must have been someone from the village , Rose said : who else would be walking in the woods at that hour ? |
| 25 | Some people swore it must have been someone in the Martin family . |
| 26 | Well , it must have been my day as with half an hour to go I had just got to the end of my swim when the float buried and the elastic shot out . |
| 27 | But when I looked at the date , my father could only have been about twelve year old you see , when these letters were written so it must have been my grandfather writing to Coventry and Birmingham for parts for the penny farthing bicycles which he worked on . |
| 28 | It must have been mine , I could feel my tongue moving up and down . |
| 29 | He began to think it must have been his imagination when a motorbike zoomed across their path , clouding the corridor with smoke . |
| 30 | For fourthly he talks about the women in his past , acknowledging that some of it must have been his fault . |