Example sentences of "must have [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of these puzzles , Jim , must 've fallen down behind the erm fermenting bin . |
| 2 | … the earliest agriculture must have grown up round the shrines of the Mother Goddess , which thus became social and economic centres , as well as holy places , and were the germs of the future cities . |
| 3 | This combination of characters in Sivapithecus indicates that if it is indeed related to the orang-utan , characters like the straight shaft and convex deltoid plane that are present in the extant great apes must have arisen independently in the orang-utan and the African apes . |
| 4 | As we do so , we shall keep in mind the fact that these very same ingredients , at least in some rudimentary form , must have arisen spontaneously on the early Earth , otherwise cumulative selection , and therefore life , would never have got started in the first place . |
| 5 | This must have contributed eventually to the decision of the British Caledonian board reluctantly to consider a merger with the much larger BA . |
| 6 | David Damiani set off from here with his family in April 1948 , and it was not difficult to see how clearly the old factory and the church above the city must have stood out on the horizon as the Argentina slipped past the tide bar and steamed for Beirut . |
| 7 | She had not been allowed make-up ; if she had , at that age , developed any idea of herself as having rights simply by virtue of being a pretty girl , it must have crept in between the covers of some acceptable book . |
| 8 | John Shaw , a geographer from Queen 's University , Ontario , argued in a recent issue of the US journal Geology , that enormous volumes of glacial meltwater must have burst forth from the Canadian ice sheets in cataclysmic floods as they broke up at the end of the Ice Age . |
| 9 | In one of those announcements that trigger a double take in observers who find it hard to believe the function had not been available for years , IBM Corp this week finally added Ethernet support for the 3174 cluster controller , long after most users must have given up on the idea and made other arrangements . |
| 10 | For Jason , he must have done well on the video excercise , he 's just been told he can follow in his father 's footsteps and join West Mercia Police . |
| 11 | For Jason , he must have done well on the video excercise , he 's just been told he can follow in his father 's footsteps and join West Mercia Police . |
| 12 | Ronny replaces Swindon-striker Fjortoft for the game tonight — Ronny must have done well in the training sessions ( coach Olsen really put some value on how the players perform in training before the games ) and Fjortoft which has been even worse for Swindon than Deano for us might have a hard time to get the attacker place back ( Fjortoft 0 — Deano 3 — Cole 10 is n't it ? ) . |
| 13 | In an experiment , leaf-cutter ants of the species Atta texana had to follow a trail by walking along a plastic roadway placed just above the trail ; they followed the trail as usual , but must have done so by the airborne odour of evaporated scent . |
| 14 | So they all must have gone out for the dinner . |
| 15 | ‘ Poor little thing , must have gone out through the cat door . |
| 16 | She must have gone back over the cards much later , when she was old . |
| 17 | Rather too pertinent , I thought , for the place 's original dweller , who must have gone down to the Atlantic in a small boat on many a stormy night . |
| 18 | She thought Finn must have gone down to the workroom . |
| 19 | ‘ So the bomb must have gone off in the committee room . |
| 20 | The important period of use of the Banbury Lane must have begun therefore in the late twelfth century . |
| 21 | You must have shot up from the age of fourteen or so . ’ |
| 22 | She must have faced up to the worst outcome , in the process . |
| 23 | She must have looked down at the dog , and seen the blood stain and the tear on his trouser . |
| 24 | That must have happened somewhere about the middle of last century . |
| 25 | But I must have nodded off at the time . |
| 26 | These must have lain freely on the surface of the sediment . |
| 27 | Some of them evidently lacked a stem , and must have lain loosely on the bottom . |
| 28 | Ronnie must have come in through the yard door without her knowing … |
| 29 | His words must have issued straight through the mouth of the now defunct Repo Man , because the next thing Rex heard was a small green cry of , ‘ We 're rumbled , chief , ’ followed by much scrambling and scurrying and an increasingly distant voice going , ‘ Faster , chief . |
| 30 | Homosexuals must have occurred previously in the family , but they were not recognized . |