Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] must [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Conceive what I must have been at fourteen , ’ he reminisced to James Gillman , his first biographer . |
| 2 | I tried to picture what she must have been like , the young woman who had diligently allowed her life to fade away working at this solitary chore . |
| 3 | Anyone who has romantic ideas of what it must have been like for great women and men to be filled with God 's Spirit should think again if the story of Mary is anything to go by . |
| 4 | At least one bookseller remarked to me that so many ex-library books had come on to the market in the last few years that he had begun to realise what it must have been like when the great monastic libraries were being dispersed . |
| 5 | As I picked my way through the frozen woods towards the observation post which commands a unique view over the former battle-ground of the Marne , I wondered what it must have been like to be a soldier . |
| 6 | ‘ For inspiration I researched what it must have been like when , after one or two volleys of musket-fire were exchanged , everybody was hacking at everybody else with edged weapons . |
| 7 | I tried , for the first time in my life , to understand what it must have been like then , under tsarist rule , where people , peasants , were no more than livestock , to be dealt with by the aristocracy as they saw fit . |
| 8 | To be greeted by complete strangers with instant derision was a sobering experience , and it vividly reminded me of what it must have been like for those first black people , in the eighteenth century , walking the streets of England freely . |
| 9 | There was no easy way to answer the bitterness in her voice , and Julia remembered what David had said about his mother 's probable feelings during the war and tried to imagine what it must have been like for Mrs Wallington , stuck in Scotland , knowing only a little but guessing all too much of what was happening to her own country — and to her two sons . |
| 10 | ‘ And imagine what it must have been like before all those modern office ‘ towers ’ were built to dwarf it — especially if you happened to be a traitor . |
| 11 | ’ You know , ’ he went on , ’ I often wonder what it must have been like before people 's working lives began to be separated from their personal lives . |
| 12 | Settling in , I looked out of the window and reflected on what it must have been like for the men building the Trans-Australia Railway when hundreds of navvies , using horses , camels and a few machines , battled their way across the inhospitable plain , which in winter crackles underfoot with frost while summer temperatures exceed a baking 50°C . |
| 13 | I ca n't imagine for one minute what it must have been like to raise children here . |
| 14 | I can only hazard a guess at what it must have been like to sail in a typical convoy , with bombers and submarines liable to strike at any moment , or to brave the Western Approaches with only a couple of inches of rusting metal between yourself and the enemy . |
| 15 | £ But I think to give us perhaps a more vivid idea of what it must have been like for ordinary people , these are 3 houses in St Aldate 's that do n't exist any more , they 're down more-or-less where the police station is , erm and we do know exactly who lived there , and who was actually there during the war . |