Example sentences of "[pers pn] must have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Eadmer there were over sixty in about 1080 , and a high proportion of them must have been Englishmen of the old foundation . |
| 2 | Among them must have been many new men pushing up from below . |
| 3 | At the same time it must be remembered that the occupations of a quarter of the inhabitants were not stated ; some of them must have been farmers , and it is quite conceivable that many of the omissions were the result of uncertainty as to whether or not to class the persons in question as agricultural or industrial . |
| 4 | Some of them must have been terrifying . |
| 5 | Some of them must have been on there . |
| 6 | When the mare basins were excavated the fragmentary material beneath them must have been compressed to a higher density than before . |
| 7 | At all events the rent from them must have been very considerable . |
| 8 | And there was the beds that was there there was beds were still in that bothy and there was there were three of them must have been in the bed you see , and then there was a a board that they slipped in half up the bed and there was a a mattress or whatever on that and another three on that . |
| 9 | One of them must have been , loads of make-up ? |
| 10 | Feeding me must have been painful , and perhaps therefore an unpleasant emotional experience . |
| 11 | If pig butchers kept piggy banks , his must have been empty once in a while during this period … |
| 12 | This Melanie of his must have been a right madam , thought Leonora when Penry went off to get himself a glass of whisky . |
| 13 | Then one evening — I must have been 12 or 13 at the time — we were driving back from visiting my nan in Kent . |
| 14 | I must have been knitting . |
| 15 | I must have been arranging those flowers , and setting the lighted candles round them , at the very moment my father was dying . |
| 16 | From outside , the church looked very old , and deserted , and I began to wonder why I had come ; and I must have been a little late , because in the perfect stillness within , the members of the congregation already knelt — like statues , some caught in a swath of rainbow light where the rising sun shone through a stained-glass window , splashing the bowed heads and bent shoulders with crimson , royal blue , emerald and gold . |
| 17 | It seems to me now that I must have been more than a little simple , because I received a telephone call from the home the very next day . |
| 18 | I think I must have been knocked down by a car . ’ |
| 19 | It was a hot day , and I think I must have been half asleep when I noticed something very strange . |
| 20 | I must have been crackers even to think it ! ’ |
| 21 | I must have been subsidizing you . |
| 22 | I must have been jealous of her life away from me , and wished to have her entirely to myself . |
| 23 | Looking back on it , I 've decided I must have been clear round the bend ! |
| 24 | My expressing some Fear of being troublesome in coming so frequently , occasioned a great Variety of Invitations , both in Verse and Prose ; which I could seldom resist : And indeed her whole Behaviour to me was so extremely good-natur 'd and obliging , that I must have been the most ungrateful Person in the World , if I had not endeavour 'd to make some Return . |
| 25 | I suppose I must have been intending to explain to Mr Farraday how I would thus be able to explore an option which might prove the ideal solution to our present small problems here in this house . |
| 26 | We had another narrow escape , and for years afterwards Father would go red with embarrassment when the subject was mentioned : ‘ I must have been off my head , ’ he would mutter ashamedly . |
| 27 | I had kept all the abuse that had been happening to me very much to myself — it seemed to me that I must have been very bad . |
| 28 | ‘ Conceive what I must have been at fourteen , ’ he reminisced to James Gillman , his first biographer . |
| 29 | I tried to stare my dislike into him but I must have been unsuccessful for he merely said with a primitive accent : ‘ Good in auto , yes ? ’ and grinned . |
| 30 | I must have been the greatest bore ever , and it 's a wonder that those I inflicted my views upon did n't rebel . |