Example sentences of "[pers pn] must [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Late night I was in bed by twenty past ten , I was in bed and I say I must of been asleep by half past , |
| 2 | that 's it , I was , I was , I must of been addictive to the Coke |
| 3 | I must of been on holiday or something , cos tha , that 's the only reason I would n't of gone , if I , if I was n't in the country . |
| 4 | No I , I must of been how long 's he been married ? |
| 5 | Oh I must of been on holiday dad , with the girls or something . |
| 6 | you must of been dead to the world , what with working |
| 7 | so there would of been nothing there for him to go for , you must of been ever so worried following him around watching him . |
| 8 | Well , they 've had , they 've only had you must of been better or Miss Johnson would of said you could n't go to the public |
| 9 | Well you must of been gone mother . |
| 10 | You must of been . |
| 11 | , I mean a woman that frightened we all be seething inside and of course seeing him asleep in a drunken stupor to think now 's my chance , she must of been in a terrible state emotionally |
| 12 | Then the mesh , she told Sally the next time she saw her , I 'm sorry I made that mistake about you having a sister she said to Sally , I 've written to tell mother you 've said you have n't one she must of been mistaken what your mother said . |
| 13 | So she must of been good . |
| 14 | she must of been . |
| 15 | Well it , according to what I read before , they say they staple the stomach down to the size of er , of a tea spoon , so presumably she , her stomach must only receive , she must of been eating twenty four hours a day , you know , to keep they , she did n't lose any weight , the other girl did , but er |
| 16 | They must of been mad . |
| 17 | they have n't been for a long time them two so they 're cast off , well they must of been they 've had to join |
| 18 | they must of been in the middle of it . |
| 19 | you know like it 's reversed they thought they , they , the words , so they must of been if that 's how it is |
| 20 | Well they must of been lo , I had a load of them here ! |
| 21 | now then the E E C said this should of happened so we , we got a petition up and I thought , we got , well I did n't but the lads got over two hundred signatures and they must of been er two letters went to the Corporation and everyone was talking er critical |
| 22 | Oh a couple of there 's youngsters , there what , those two boys that talk to us they must of been about , at the most eighteen I think , messing about getting chips and fish and burgers and stuff , rubbish . |
| 23 | Oh a couple of there 's youngsters , there what , those two boys that talk to us they must of been about , at the most eighteen I think , messing about getting chips and fish and burgers and stuff , rubbish . |
| 24 | Because I recko , I reckon they must of been paid for that because Maury has n't been phoning up and saying oh you have n't paid it ! |
| 25 | they must of been red |
| 26 | You know , so they must of been talking about it |
| 27 | bloody hell , that must of been hard work that , they must of been at it all day |
| 28 | So he put it in shed , left it in shed for a while and then it were not last year the year before , he took it down , I 'm putting this in dustbin duck he says it 's no damn good , we went on holiday and me daughter 's boyfriend came down while we were away and er , he must of been looking in dustbin he says what 's this telly doing , our Mandy said it 's no good , me dad 's slinging it out , so he took it home and fixed it , it 's been going ever since |
| 29 | He must of been an admiral of title somewhere else , ha ha . |
| 30 | Oh he came from an old , I think he came from a very old er , there was , there was a General , first world war , erm , well the last time I heard anything about Cake , well , he was , he 'd , he 'd left the Signals section , he was the when I left India , and the last time I heard anything about him , I read it in , in a paper in erm , when the troubles were on and he was brig brigadier in charge of an infantry brigade , about my age , well , a , probably a year or two older than me , cos he was a , yeah he was a lieutenant when I got out there a full lieutenant , so he must of been a captain . |