Example sentences of "must [verb] been [adj] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been heartbreaking for people who had been through sensational experiences to have to recount them to politely tepid audiences and to discover that their stories conformed to an orthodox pattern . |
| 2 | He must have been asleep for hours . |
| 3 | It must have been odd for Ralph , I thought , to feel like an intruder in his own library . |
| 4 | It must have been awful for Mme Wyatt . |
| 5 | In the past it must have been necessary for spectators to keep well clear or be vigilant . |
| 6 | I must have been unconscious for hours . |
| 7 | It must have been worse for Charlie . |
| 8 | While it must have been galling for Lear , Gould took pains to ingratiate himself with the young artist , and Lear all too easily complied . |
| 9 | They also got very noisy , which must have been galling for Ron , standing out in the wind and rain supervising the keen members of his squad . |
| 10 | The trip home must have been hazardous for Mars alone had suffered 72 hits , leaving 29 of her complement dead and 85 wounded , and she now had three feet [ 0.9 m ] of water in her hold . |
| 11 | He must have been dead for hours . ’ |