Example sentences of "must have [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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1 | As they were neither wholly water-resistant nor airtight some very unpleasant odours must have arisen from below . |
2 | They must have fallen from the loft and hopped inside , and touched something in there that brought the rusty flap crashing down to entomb them . |
3 | They must have fallen from a very great height to end up like that ! |
4 | Oh , lordy , lordy , she must have heard from that wretched Mrs Elswick ! |
5 | Much of his hatred and contempt of Bella must have stemmed from her involvement in Johnny 's fall from grace . |
6 | He thought this one must have escaped from the National Theatre down the road . |
7 | But — you must have escaped from the TARDIS ? ’ |
8 | I swear he must have ridden from Gloucester at the gallop to arrive before you . |
9 | She had always resented Luke , and feared the way he made her feel — because she must have sensed from the beginning the power he could and did have over her ; because he had deprived her of himself when he had had her dismissed from that very first job back in South Africa ; because something had led him to misjudge and despise her , and he was unable to see the truth ; because she had always known that he could break her heart … |
10 | I can only imagine that shortly before the excursions a long double headed steam train must have travelled from Shrewsbury to Machynlleth , but I do n't know the times . |
11 | He must have seen from my face that I knew what he was talking about . |
12 | This group must have separated from the ancestral flatworms at a very early stage indeed , long before the split between the molluscs and the segmented worms . |
13 | When humans arrived , the dove demonstrated a behaviour pattern that it must have inherited from its ancient ancestors and kept in storage ever since . |
14 | I REALISE everyone must have suffered from the saturation coverage of the election regardless of which party they support . |
15 | Everyone said she must have struggled from her sick-bed the moment she realized that the aunt left in charge during her illness had sadly neglected her little boy . |
16 | The Dorset industry must have continued from its Pre-conquest days up to the moment of expansion ; its potters had been supplying the army in the middle of the first century , as is evident from Waddon Hill ( Webster , 1960 , 93 , 95 ; 1965 , 142 ) . |
17 | Will he rediscover some electronic equivalent of the metaphor of the arch , and realize that computers could not have sprung spontaneously into existence but must have originated from some earlier process of cumulative selection ? |
18 | ‘ I went home and just after I got in my mother phoned ; she must have known from my voice that something was wrong . |
19 | Although islands may be formed by a variety of processes , such as vulcanism , tectonic movements and accumulation , many of the world 's present islands must have resulted from the Post-glacial rise of sea level . |
20 | The three species of bee seem so closely related that they must have evolved from a single carrion-eating ancestor . |
21 | It was obvious that the fish — the ‘ lowest ’ class within the vertebrate phylum — must have evolved from a pre-existing invertebrate form , yet this had occurred before fossils became plentiful in the rocks . |
22 | It must have come from Colin 's collection . |
23 | Kerry Evans said at Shrewsbury Crown Court that he asked Edward Browning about the blood , and was told that it must have come from an animal he had hit while driving to Scotland . |
24 | Bluestack Bill , the singer , must have come from these damp Colorado badlands . |
25 | When we got there the street was crowded with people who must have come from all parts of the City . |
26 | Shotwell ( 1955 ) attempted to distinguish between bones from different sources by devising an index of completeness of preservation , by which species represented by most complete remains must have been transported shorter distances and therefore have come from communities close by , while species with less well preserved remains must have come from more distant communities . |
27 | The missing two-thirds of its energy must have come from elastic tension stored in its huge tendons , tail and lower back . |
28 | Then the water vapour which condensed into oceans must have come from early volcanic activity and from the gaseous components of the solid Earth itself . |
29 | Whatever was being alleged against her neighbours must have come from statements made by her children in care . |
30 | A fire blazed in a huge hearth beneath an oak lintel which , to judge by its thickness , must have come from a tree already at least a hundred years old when it was felled to help build this ancient building . |