Example sentences of "must have [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was too large for me at that time , but over the next twelve months I must have grown considerably because , with wooden blocks fixed on the pedals , I was able to reach it in comparative comfort . |
| 2 | Must have landed already . ’ |
| 3 | He must have kissed so many women … |
| 4 | By now , knowing that Thomas must have pressed home his own attack , we were concerned that the only reference to his part in the operation was the bald statement — ‘ The sixth aircraft was lost ’ . |
| 5 | But , even though direct criticism of Hitler seldom surfaced , the excuse must have sounded somewhat hollow . |
| 6 | That said , the integration of the new players has gone better than the selectors must have hoped even in their most Panglossian moments . |
| 7 | ‘ She must have stopped here , ’ Anne said , ‘ or doubled back . ’ |
| 8 | But , after watching some of the internationals this season , I think that these rival friendships must have worn pretty thin judging by the number of collapsed scrummages in games . |
| 9 | In doing this , Carvajal and his colleagues finally threw off the disguise of Roman Catholicism , which by then must have worn very thin . |
| 10 | This combination of characters in Sivapithecus indicates that if it is indeed related to the orang-utan , characters like the straight shaft and convex deltoid plane that are present in the extant great apes must have arisen independently in the orang-utan and the African apes . |
| 11 | Alternatively , it may be that Sivapithecus precedes the splitting of the great apes , so that the combination of cranial characters shared by it and the orang-utan must have arisen independently . |
| 12 | Oreopithecus is clearly not a dryopithecin , which indicates these postcranial characters may be primitive for the great ape and human clade , but if Sivapithecus belongs in the orang-utan clade , as I have argued , the shared morphology of the orang-utan and the African apes must have arisen independently . |
| 13 | As we do so , we shall keep in mind the fact that these very same ingredients , at least in some rudimentary form , must have arisen spontaneously on the early Earth , otherwise cumulative selection , and therefore life , would never have got started in the first place . |
| 14 | However , the patterns of species diversity do not coincide with those of endemism and one of the present ‘ refugia ’ seems to have been underwater 5000 BP and its endemism must have arisen subsequently . |
| 15 | Wimbledon must have lost about 30 balls cannoned over the stand roof . |
| 16 | This must have contributed eventually to the decision of the British Caledonian board reluctantly to consider a merger with the much larger BA . |
| 17 | The markets themselves must have contributed greatly to this . |
| 18 | It was during Aaron 's lifetime that Jewish moneylending developed in England on a large scale , an achievement to which Aaron 's own extraordinary success must have contributed greatly . |
| 19 | Sturt , with his unrivalled knowledge of Australian geography and zoology , had much to say on the subject , and his observations must have contributed greatly to Gould 's views . |
| 20 | To photograph the house for the news last night the cameraman must have stood just where he had stood himself , on the edge of the lawn with his back to the cedar tree . |
| 21 | Constructed in the early sixteenth century with a heavy timber frame mounted on saddlestones , with mud and stud walls surmounted by a thatched roof and with hand-made brick chimneys , it must have stood thus , virtually unaltered for about two hundred years . |
| 22 | This place must have stood here like this for all those years , and I imagined it retaining always this season , a pocket of perpetual spring — almost a source of spring from which the frozen bare earth in other places could be revivified , as those old maps depict in each corner a Wind holding in his bursting cheeks the force of the wind everywhere . |
| 23 | I must have stood there for at least ten minutes , quite still as though transfixed . |
| 24 | I must have stood there for a couple of hours , getting more and more fed up as my imagination worked overtime . |
| 25 | It must have struck home in some way . |
| 26 | In his mind he saw his grand-father ; he must have visited here as a young man . |
| 27 | She must have fallen downstairs . ’ ' |
| 28 | As she grew older , she looked upon herself , tragically , defiantly , with all the hopelessness of fourteen years , as a plant trying to root itself upon the solid rock , without water , without earth , without shade : and then , when a little older yet , when conscious of some growth , she had to concede that she must have fallen happily upon some small dry sandy fissure , where a few grains of sand , a few drops of moisture , had been enough to support her trembling and tenacious life . |
| 29 | His head must have fallen almost directly on top of one of the tall spikes that surmounted the old iron rail . |
| 30 | According to the World Bank , the proportion of Thais living below the poverty line fell from 59% in 1960 to 26% in 1986 and , with the three years of double-digit economic growth that followed , must have fallen much further since . |