Example sentences of "must have put " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You must have put it there by accident , ’ I said . |
| 2 | ‘ What do you mean , I must have put it there , you must have put it there . |
| 3 | ‘ What do you mean , I must have put it there , you must have put it there . |
| 4 | ‘ I did n't steal your money , you stupid bitch , you must have put it in the wrong apron . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He must have put some Cherry Blossom boot polish on it . |
| 7 | The girl let go of my hand and moved away into the gloom behind me , where she must have put the screwed-up five-pound notes on to the chest of drawers with the magazines , the small framed photograph , the towel , the box of paper tissues , the jar of Vaseline , the baby 's dummy and all the other odds and ends spilled over the varnished oak top . |
| 8 | He won the local Easter parade a couple of times as the best-dressed man which , in the depressed Thirties , must have put him in the mould of something of an exhibitionist . |
| 9 | You must have put in many , many hours of practice to attain your current level of technique … |
| 10 | Luke must have put her to bed . |
| 11 | You surely must have put the fear of God into someone . ’ |
| 12 | The rose which mantled the house must have put out a thousand flowers and these were at the peak of their blooming , not a petal yet shed , each blossom the pink of a shell within and the pink of coral on its outer side . |
| 13 | IT WAS shameful of British owners to enter racehorses in the Breeders Cup in Florida — the 90-degree heat and dirt track must have put these horses in great distress . |
| 14 | The Minoans seem to have been self-sufficient in terms of basic needs , which must have put them in a position of trading strength , but they relied on imports for supplies of exotic raw materials for the manufacture of luxury goods . |
| 15 | The head estimates that : overall we must have put something like £2000 into the library in terms of pure cash and obviously almost the equivalent in terms of hours of time given . |
| 16 | He must have put up a bit of a struggle , but they were a persuasive bunch , those women , and the two nans in alliance were practically irresistible . |
| 17 | Pascoe guessed that she must have put her hand over the mouthpiece . |
| 18 | We appreciated that long months of solitary on top of the awful treatment he 'd received before must have put incredible strains on him . |
| 19 | She must have put the idea into his head herself : pinned it onto the back of his mind , like one of her flaming hairpieces . |
| 20 | They must have put money on his reaching 50 . |
| 21 | Blanche understood the people who must have put pressure on the commander to take her off the case : MI5 and Urquhart 's boss , Capron . |
| 22 | You must have put them in your bag . |
| 23 | Newley must have put him up to it . |
| 24 | He must have put in some agile footwork at times , to get this far through his life still single , and yet have all the fun he 's had . ’ |
| 25 | I must have poured out my troubles at such length , and he must have put to me a sufficient number of searching questions , that , before we had drawn breath , the afternoon was already far advanced . |
| 26 | Oh yeah , somebody must have been there , you must have put it in yourself , you must have done . |
| 27 | Trippy took his cue and banged the palm of his left hand on the top of the cab and Ali must have put down his book — or got to a frightening bit — because he set off sharpish , left back towards Oxford Street . |
| 28 | ‘ You must have put in a lot of hard work . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Charity begins at home , ’ Ruth suggested wryly at the same time uncharitably thinking that Maria Luisa must have put Fernando under such a terrible strain over something that had nothing to do with him . |
| 30 | There was a write up in the newspaper I found , I must have put it back . |