Example sentences of "they must [verb] been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so they must 've been fairly sure of their support to allow them to come into an area of villages . |
| 2 | There must 've been with erm in forty seven was it the encirclement campaign where they allowed the nationalists to sort of drive through the , I do n't know the defences , they must 've been fairly certain of their support in certain areas by then . |
| 3 | And your sister 's ten years older than you so they must 've been there ten years plus , must n't they ? |
| 4 | So they must have been pretty good . |
| 5 | Once they must have been dead level , but not for long It was Student Cross that had really swept him out of her reach . |
| 6 | They must have been easily satisfied in those days , I should think . ’ |
| 7 | The young lady doctor had said ten minutes , but they must have been here twenty . |
| 8 | The thegns lived in increasing grandeur but in wooden halls rather than masonry villas ; although tapestried and heated by a central fire they must have been both dirty and draughty . |
| 9 | They must have been especially successful in exploiting whatever was available from them , because I do n't remember anything of it . |
| 10 | But anyway we , they must have been so impressed by the , the order that they got , that they gave us the agency for Galashiels and Selkirk for the Austin . |
| 11 | ‘ Only a very few failed and they must have been bloody awful . ’ |
| 12 | In the tradition of Wilfrid , he seems to have taught the men of Lewes and Bramber how to fish ( they must have been very forgetful ) , or at least blessed their nets . |
| 13 | ‘ They must have been very discreet . |
| 14 | They must have been too valuable to be discarded wantonly . |
| 15 | They must have been extremely hard to fool , otherwise the insects would not have evolved to become as perfect mimics as they are : they would have remained relatively imperfect mimics . |
| 16 | As girls , they must have been exceedingly beautiful . |
| 17 | This group may include the distant ancestors of the sharks , but they must have been somewhat ponderous animals compared with the streamlined hunters of modern seas . |
| 18 | They must have been less pleased when a slightly sensational story got into Weekend under my own name . |