Example sentences of "must have [verb] [adv prt] [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 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | So they all must have gone out for the dinner . |
| 7 | ‘ Poor little thing , must have gone out through the cat door . |
| 8 | She must have gone back over the cards much later , when she was old . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She thought Finn must have gone down to the workroom . |
| 11 | ‘ So the bomb must have gone off in the committee room . |
| 12 | You must have shot up from the age of fourteen or so . ’ |
| 13 | She must have faced up to the worst outcome , in the process . |
| 14 | She must have looked down at the dog , and seen the blood stain and the tear on his trouser . |
| 15 | But I must have nodded off at the time . |
| 16 | Ronnie must have come in through the yard door without her knowing … |
| 17 | He thought he must have passed out on the grass verge . |
| 18 | She woke , exclaiming that she must have dropped off in the heat . |
| 19 | ‘ My , but we must have got up on the right side of the interrogation cell this morning . ’ |
| 20 | I found a small but perfectly-formed hailstone on my knee , which must have got in through the air vent . |
| 21 | ‘ I must have got out of the wrong side of the bed , ’ Beck said . |
| 22 | ‘ Either someone moved it or I must have got out of the lift on the wrong floor . ’ |
| 23 | Jon , as he proudly watched the Union Jack raised above his head , must have thought back to the days when , as Oxford University Boat Race president , the only flag he looked at was the skull and crossbones which hung in his study with a menacing message written underneath : ‘ Death Zone — No Prisoners . ’ |