Example sentences of "[pron] must [adv] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | My doctor tells me that leg of his must still be hurting like the devil . |
| 2 | Consider the immense resources available to our nation , consider the British soldiers who must now be converging on the mutinous Indian plains from every part of the Empire . |
| 3 | In order to work you must already be working . |
| 4 | Therefore , by the time you are seven , although your birthdate remains the same , you must actually be celebrating your birthday one week later in the year . |
| 5 | You must still be taking that very seriously ? |
| 6 | ‘ Ben and I were sure that you must still be feeling jet lagged . |
| 7 | It screwed me up thinking how the invalid 's hopes must have soared at the sound of my entry , and how she must now be falling into deeper and deeper misery because of the silence and the nothing happening . |
| 8 | Leith supposed she must still be feeling shaken at being grabbed at by Alec Ardis , and more than a touch bruised by her dismissal , and the unfairness of it . |
| 9 | Thus provisioned , he invited Louise to come to the banqueting hall to celebrate her birthday , though in a very quiet way , he assured her ; he had not forgotten that she must still be suffering on account of her father , who had only recently taken his last dive down the well in the Residency yard in the wake of so many of his former patients . |
| 10 | Awareness , although aided by propositional knowledge , is primarily of the concrete situation , to which one can not attend without being causally affected , so that to have become aware of it at all one must already be responding to it in ways which vary with the range and degree of awareness . |
| 11 | When one is asking questions , however , one must never forget that the answers come from the respondents , so one must always be thinking about those respondents . |
| 12 | What weird impressions one must always be making upon different people . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ If they 're hiring your sort of freelance now , we must really be going downhill fast . ’ |
| 14 | Finally , it should be remembered that in looking for linguistically significant aspects of speech we must always be looking for contrasts ; one of the most important things about any unit of phonology or grammar is the set of items it contrasts with . |
| 15 | ‘ I simply do n't want the ball put at risk in areas where we are immediately vulnerable to counter-attacks and we must always be giving the opposition something to think about . |
| 16 | These were followed by two more , whoosh whoosh , and then two more , whoosh whoosh , and they must surely be coming , Little Billy told himself , from the two nose-holes of some galloping panting beast that had smelled him out and was coming after him . |
| 17 | So they must still be doing them and that was two huge boxes . |
| 18 | Without consulting the master layout plan I have no idea which square yard H24/V72 occupies on the pitch , once the biggest in England until former manager Billy Bremner lopped off a few yards because he thought it put the team at a disadvantage when playing away ( they must now be regretting all those lost square yards they could be selling ) . |
| 19 | They must really be looking forward to seeing their parents again . ’ |
| 20 | He must also be hoping the measures will save his political neck . |
| 21 | Somehow or other he must surely be making an exhibition of himself . |
| 22 | He must still be basking in the afterglow of their lovemaking — and was no doubt a little shocked by its unexpectedness — Ashley thought , as the track gave way to the lane and his silence continued . |
| 23 | He must really be wetting his pants . ’ |
| 24 | He must be critical of himself — and others — since in a changing world he must constantly be questioning his methods , his direction and the administration of his responsibilities . |
| 25 | In Heseltine 's case , it must already be approaching the danger level ; he needs to be vigilant that nothing he says or does reinforces it . |
| 26 | The Spanish government may , of course , be hoping in the long term to be able to buy at least part of this collection at favourable rates ; otherwise it must simply be gambling on the Thyssen collection being a sufficiently spectacular and alluring feather in the cultural cap of the capital over the next ten years to make its considerable investment worthwhile . |
| 27 | However , two tunes stand out : the single ‘ One Love In My Lifetime ’ , and the alluring , groovy ‘ Looking For Someone ’ , a song so lazy that it must still be living with mum in middle-age . |