Example sentences of "they must have [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wind was blowing free , and if there were any fences they must have been beyond the distant horizon . |
| 2 | Now I do n't know what they were worth and she was saying they must have been worth quite a bit cos they 're big detached solid houses are n't they ? |
| 3 | You 've Radio York all week , they must have been over er over overwhelmed for callers I imagine this week , I would have thought you would have been a boon to anybody 's talk show . |
| 4 | They must have been at that game for ages — and no anaesthetics , either . |
| 5 | Yet again , if slightly more hardcore fans have n't already got ‘ Injected With A Poison ’ ( mix credited to Digital Orgasm , daft since they made the record in the first place ) or Sonz Of A Loop Da Loop Era , then they must have been in a coma for months . |
| 6 | He realised they must have been in the accident . |
| 7 | The same thing is seen in a more hesitant form on another boy ( fig. 71 ) , and here the very slight tilt and turn of the head are part of a change in the pose of the whole figure , as they must have been in the fair-haired boy also . |
| 8 | They must have been in their twenties when the family moved from Trebyan . ’ |
| 9 | Modern tackle has given today 's anglers a great advantage and simple things such as float control are now much easier than they must have been in the silk line and gut era . |