Example sentences of "must have [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | … 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I must have fallen on to a sharp stick , I thought . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Many of them must have ended up in a British soldier 's mess-tin . |
| 6 | It must have spewed out as a gas — a blindingly hot gas . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So they all must have gone out for the dinner . |
| 9 | ‘ Poor little thing , must have gone out through the cat door . |
| 10 | ‘ Must have gone out in a hurry . |
| 11 | She must have gone back over the cards much later , when she was old . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She thought Finn must have gone down to the workroom . |
| 14 | Something must have come up , and she must have gone off in a hurry . |
| 15 | ‘ So the bomb must have gone off in the committee room . |
| 16 | Not only that , but he must have swallowed the large Garry Dog I had on the line , which must have floated down in an unrestricted way to him . ’ |
| 17 | You must have shot up from the age of fourteen or so . ’ |
| 18 | She must have faced up to the worst outcome , in the process . |
| 19 | ‘ But you must have started out as a baby , ’ the boy said . |
| 20 | She must have looked down at the dog , and seen the blood stain and the tear on his trouser . |
| 21 | But I must have nodded off at the time . |
| 22 | Ronnie must have come in through the yard door without her knowing … |
| 23 | They must have come out of a back entrance to the flats and they were intent on avoiding somebody , although I 'd seen nothing suspicious when I 'd cruised down Seymour Place . |
| 24 | Connors said the guy must have curled up into a ball and hidden in a waste-basket . |
| 25 | He thought he must have passed out on the grass verge . |
| 26 | I was expecting you , of course , but I must have dropped off for a few minutes . ’ |
| 27 | She woke , exclaiming that she must have dropped off in the heat . |
| 28 | ‘ My , but we must have got up on the right side of the interrogation cell this morning . ’ |
| 29 | I found a small but perfectly-formed hailstone on my knee , which must have got in through the air vent . |
| 30 | ‘ I must have got out of the wrong side of the bed , ’ Beck said . |