Example sentences of "must have be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It concluded that Kennedy was shot by Oswald acting alone , a verdict which has been questioned ever since by those believing that he must have been acting as part of a conspiracy . |
| 32 | The mercantile agent in disposing of the goods must have been acting in the ordinary course of business of a mercantile agent . |
| 33 | They must have been singing for , though Sharpe could hear nothing , he could see their mouths opening and closing in unison . |
| 34 | The Rhodesia Metals case was referred to in the Hang Seng Bank case [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 306 and it follows that when Lord Bridge used the words ‘ place where the property was let ’ he must have been referring to the place where the property let was situated and not to the place or places where the lease happened to have been signed . |
| 35 | must have been referring to R.S.C. , Ord. 59 , r. 10(3) rather than to the Act of 1960 when he said that ‘ in cases of contempt , however , these powers will be used only in exceptional cases ’ because section 13 is solely concerned with appeals in cases of contempt . |
| 36 | They must have been watching from a hill-top as I rode towards them because suddenly I was surrounded by a company of about 40 soldiers , all aged between 17 and 18 years . |
| 37 | He must have been hiding in the back room behind the stage all the time . |
| 38 | He had thought they were at least speaking to one another privately , but if Jim had really sworn an affidavit he must have been listening on another telephone . |
| 39 | You must have been listening to the B.B.C. or something . ’ |
| 40 | And it gets in your hair and it gets in your clothes , she must have been listening to the television . |
| 41 | He referred to the Man City game which he must have been listening to on Manc Radio . |
| 42 | What volcano of emotion must have been boiling inside that youngster under his teasing and laughing , under his occasionally expressionless face ? |
| 43 | All this time I had had to try hard not to think of what my parents must have been feeling about my going away . |
| 44 | When it touched Parker it had evidently acquired a tremendous spin , and for a second it must have been spinning beneath me . |
| 45 | If someone had valuables hidden in the hypocaust , he must have been waiting on thorns for the chance to get his hoard away , and baulked all day by staff and visitors wandering around . |
| 46 | I thought she must have been waiting for someone … ’ |
| 47 | She must have been waiting for some time . |
| 48 | Grant got the impression that Larsen must have been waiting for his signal , like a sprinter crouched in his blocks waiting for the starter 's gun to launch him into motion . |
| 49 | Whoever it was must have been waiting by the telephone for the call . |
| 50 | They must have been waiting in a car , as neither wore an overcoat and both were suddenly there smack in front of me , blocking the pavement , tantalizingly close to home . |
| 51 | Then she looked swiftly , secretly with her large eyes back to where Conchis must have been sitting at the harpsichord , and then again at me . |
| 52 | She must have been sitting over the phone . |
| 53 | I must have been walking for nearly an hour , he thought . |
| 54 | I think he must have been putting on all that business with his ankle , just to gain sympathy . ’ |
| 55 | She must have been going for the six o'clock train , and she was probably in a dickens of a rush when … ’ |
| 56 | she was nearly retiring by the , no still the girls go to her at the school so she must have been going for , two or three years after we came up here , but I would be in the choir just , maybe two or three years . |
| 57 | I THINK you must have been going to small moneylenders to be quoted interest rates of this sort . |
| 58 | Because Edith now Edith was going away for some unknown reason , I do n't know , she must have been going on another holiday anyhow . |
| 59 | Well you must have been going during the day while I was at work then . |
| 60 | It was held that since the buyer knew much more about Persia than the seller , he must have been relying on his own judgment as to whether the tractors were suitable for the Persian market . |