Example sentences of "it must [verb] been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been creepy for you , going into that empty house and finding something nasty behind the door … hey , that 'd make a title , would n't it ? |
| 2 | In the past it must have been necessary for spectators to keep well clear or be vigilant . |
| 3 | While it must have been galling for Lear , Gould took pains to ingratiate himself with the young artist , and Lear all too easily complied . |
| 4 | It must have been humiliating for her to accept that after helping him to create an empire within show business , he should choose to spend his time with a younger woman . |
| 5 | It must have been good to be home . |
| 6 | It must have been awful for Mme Wyatt . |
| 7 | It must have been awful to be separated from her children , as she and many other Jamaican mothers were . |
| 8 | At the Tribute and subsequently in Seville , it must have been great to be surrounded by so many people who openly acknowledge Queen as a huge influence . |
| 9 | It must have been terrible for him . |
| 10 | It must have been terrible for you all these years , but what a day it 'll be when Terry comes home , wo n't it ? ’ |
| 11 | It must have been terrible for her gran , wanting to explain about the Italian connection , and being unable to . |
| 12 | ‘ It must have been terrible for you when they told you there was nothing more they could do , ’ Juliet said quickly . |
| 13 | ‘ Nico , it must have been — it must have been terrible for you , loving her and losing her . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A police spokesman said : ‘ The assistant has given us some vital information even though it must have been embarrassing for her . ’ |
| 16 | It must have been odd for Ralph , I thought , to feel like an intruder in his own library . |
| 17 | It must have been halfway through the year , and it was " You were pregnant ! |
| 18 | It must have been inconvenient for everyone . |
| 19 | It must have been distasteful for a man whose principles were always of the very highest . |
| 20 | It must have been lonely for him . |
| 21 | It must have been scary for you . |
| 22 | It must have been hard for her — uprooted and transported to a strange country — not to know what was happening to her and her mother , apart from the fact that somehow or other they 'd been able to join up again with the father . |
| 23 | It must have been hard for a short , drunken man to do at the dead of night . ’ |
| 24 | By now it must have been obvious to the Romans that the power and authority of the Druids was in the ascendancy and that sooner or later their inimical influence had to be removed . |
| 25 | Rather ingenuously it appears that , with the liberation of Paris , the French in Vietnam asked for Japanese permission to celebrate the event ; and it must have been obvious to the Japanese , too , that the uneasy but de facto alignment between them and the French was liable to break down sooner or later . |
| 26 | It must have been obvious to the jury that these witnesses were in a special position , one as the husband of a woman with whom the defendant had had an intimate relationship and the other as the sister of the deceased , whom the defendant had shot , according to himself , accidentally . |
| 27 | By now it must have been obvious to her host that she had put him down as a direct descendant of Casanova , Don Juan or Jack the Ripper — or possibly a combination of all three . |
| 28 | It must have been horrible for her . ’ |
| 29 | Oh yes oh yes in my thirty odd years erm looking back now it must have been primitive in those days really . |
| 30 | It must have been difficult for the teachers to organize things even before the arrival of the evacuees , who had problems of their own , of course , adjusting to a major change in lifestyle . |