Example sentences of "must have be [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Sir Patrick Mayhew must have been hoping for some winners and losers , as he considers how to kick-start his talks process .
2 He must have been gouging for half an hour when an idea seemed to strike him .
3 As he stood on the tee with the green five hundred yards away , Kyle must have been thinking of another birdie , possibly an eagle .
4 He had thought they were at least speaking to one another privately , but if Jim had really sworn an affidavit he must have been listening on another telephone .
5 What volcano of emotion must have been boiling inside that youngster under his teasing and laughing , under his occasionally expressionless face ?
6 She must have been waiting for some time .
7 I think he must have been putting on all that business with his ankle , just to gain sympathy . ’
8 I THINK you must have been going to small moneylenders to be quoted interest rates of this sort .
9 Because Edith now Edith was going away for some unknown reason , I do n't know , she must have been going on another holiday anyhow .
10 That creature must have been travelling at 60 miles per hour .
11 Choose one of the four and try to work out what he or she must have been doing at each stage of the carnival .
12 There was no law , strictly speaking , against experimenting , although considering the stage which Alexei 's trials had reached , it was clear that he must have been working on this for some time .
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