Example sentences of "she must have [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He , too , checked with the police and rang back to confirm that Derek had not been arrested and that he felt she must have made a mistake . |
| 2 | She waited a moment for the signal to appear somewhere on the grid , then leaned forward to key the search sequence again , thinking she must have made a mistake . |
| 3 | She must have made a mistake herself . |
| 4 | She must have made a huge error in giving change somewhere along the line and she felt defeated . |
| 5 | But she i if they say she 's made a payment , she must have made a payment . |
| 6 | ‘ She must have liked a book of mine , ’ he said . |
| 7 | She must have seen a few sights in her time . ’ |
| 8 | I think she must have seen a lot of things at that time which had made her the way she was , seen things in the blackout and in the underground stations . |
| 9 | But , flicking her glance away from him when he caught her looking at him , she formed the view that she must have gone a little light-headed with the guilt of her conscience , because it seemed to her that since knowing him she had been visited by one strange thought or feeling after another . |
| 10 | He would never understand how she could memorize all those complex , impossibly long poems , yet forget the words of a simple song she must have heard a thousand times or more . |
| 11 | She must have dozed a little and the train grew stuffy as the sun hit the windows . |
| 12 | She 'd never had a weight problem , of course , but she must have lost a few pounds over the past few days , because the waistband of the shorts she was wearing this morning — which she had purchased in New York only last Saturday — was already far looser than it had been . |
| 13 | Well she must have paid a bit off . |
| 14 | She must have forgotten a few things in the holidays , like the time I pushed her in the school goldfish pond . |
| 15 | The phrase , which was one she must have used a hundred times to visiting parishioners in ordinary times , took on a poignant inadequacy in the context of the murder of her husband . |
| 16 | ‘ When I got back I found I had left the garden door a little ajar ; she must have taken a chill . |
| 17 | She must have taken a knife to push the cord through , she said , there was hardly any room for it . |
| 18 | Once they heard her say , ‘ But Harry , you ca n't keep on — ’ And then she must have put a hand over the mouthpiece , because they did not hear anything else until , suddenly , another voice spoke . |
| 19 | She must have had a posting , or else obtained her demob while I was still at Binbrook , because I have a distinct memory of Sheila hammering nails into this crate before despatching it to her new destination , and scornfully refusing all help from J. , who was standing by with the hammer and nails . |
| 20 | " She must have had a fanciful imagination , or been delirious . |
| 21 | She must have had a life apart from what we know about and she 's living it , ’ she concluded , lamely . |
| 22 | Whoever his dearest Nina was , she must have had a hard time of it ! |
| 23 | We fill grocery cartons with shoes that have the shape of living feet , a bulge on the left where she must have had a swollen joint ; I did not notice it while she was alive . |
| 24 | From the length of it , she must have had a truck waiting outside the check-out . |
| 25 | ‘ No idea — but I gather she must have had a wonky heart . ’ |
| 26 | I think she must have had a really bad stroke . |
| 27 | Well she must have thought a lot of |
| 28 | But maybe they should n't have — she must have known a better life before this , and what right had they to claim her as their own without having brought her up ? |