Example sentences of "[pers pn] must have been [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had another narrow escape , and for years afterwards Father would go red with embarrassment when the subject was mentioned : ‘ I must have been off my head , ’ he would mutter ashamedly . |
| 2 | She must have been in her late thirties then , but to me she seemed timeless . |
| 3 | Quite a little cracker in her day , she must have been in her late thirties now . |
| 4 | He met my mother when he was in his early thirties and she must have been in her teens . |
| 5 | I mean she must have been in her seventies . |
| 6 | They must have been in their twenties when the family moved from Trebyan . ’ |
| 7 | He must have been on his way to Jordan 's place . |
| 8 | He must have been about my age , too , because he 'd been in Nagasaki when the bomb went on . |
| 9 | If he was Sorrel 's father , then he must have been around his mid-forties at least , but he 'd worn well . |
| 10 | ‘ Nice of you , ’ said Gerald Seymour-Strachey , flashing at him those miraculously even teeth , and looking every inch the debonair squire of dames he must have been in his youth . |
| 11 | Well it must be ten years ago when he worked for the B B C and that , he must have been in his late twenties then |
| 12 | Shoes , it must have been on your shoes . |
| 13 | If ever Joseph felt King of Spain it must have been on his triumphal progress in Andalusia . |
| 14 | How it must have been for our Stone Age grandmothers — swell , oh , oh , pop , look , a little one — oh , it 's dead — oh , I 'm dying , dying ; dead ! |
| 15 | He fought Christ 's battles there for ten years — it must have been like our brave missionaries now going into the wildest and most uncivilised parts of Africa — because the pagan King Morken was his enemy and envied the fame of Kentigern . |
| 16 | She tried to imagine what an imposing building it must have been in its time . |