Example sentences of "[pers pn] must be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must be getting tired : Anya 's binding spell has packed more of a punch than I expected . |
| 2 | Christ , he thought to himself , I must be getting desperate . |
| 3 | In the paddock , he said , ‘ I must be getting old . ’ |
| 4 | I must be getting short-sighted — and maybe somewhat deaf … ’ |
| 5 | I must be lying low in a room there , |
| 6 | ‘ I must be going senile , you know , ’ she said . |
| 7 | ‘ I must be going mad , ’ he muttered . |
| 8 | He shook his head in mock disbelief , ‘ I must be going soft in my old age ! ’ |
| 9 | Oh , grief , I must be going soft in the head , she thought irritatedly , and concentrated on Azor for the next couple of hours . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm sleeping well , and I 'm waking on time , so I must be feeling confident . ’ |
| 11 | 'E must be got warm . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You must be getting awful cabin-fever stuck in all day , ’ said Emma , as they pushed through the lancing wind . |
| 13 | You must be getting old . |
| 14 | Securicor have joined the cowboys on the contract guarding and really I mean you must be getting sick of us getting up every time about security guards , but it 's an important problem and you must know that a lot of you must work at places where you 've got guards on the gate and we all should take a bit of interest in going to see these guards , find out that they 're working for two pound or two pound forty an hour , they 're working as many hours a week as they 'll actually work with no overtime rate , no night rate , no benefits worth having and I mean really I wish you 'd go to your companies and try and arrange site allowances , cos that 's the only way we 'll get any improvements , but when we talk about resolving grievances , we just took in Yorkshire region someone to a tribunal for constructive dismissal . |
| 15 | He said that , you 're just , he , he , he said that it 's available to housewives but only if they erm , will be going back to work prior to the claim , but you must be employed prior to the claim . |
| 16 | ‘ I mean , you must be sleeping rough . |
| 17 | In that voice of hers , that warm low voice , she said , ‘ I know you must be feeling sad so often , that was a bad thing your grandmother dying so soon . ’ |
| 18 | You must be feeling sick … ’ |
| 19 | Well , you must be feeling sick ! ’ |
| 20 | It 's normal for you to feel flattered by his attentions , as you must be feeling lonely after the loss of your husband , but your son-in-law should know better . |
| 21 | ( For example Manu the lawgiver recommended to Hindu society more than twelve centuries ago that ‘ the chief function of a woman is to give birth , nurse those who are born and attend daily duties ' or ‘ A girl must be married before she attains puberty and after she is married she must be kept busy looking after elders , cooking , cleaning , keeping accounts and saving money and of course doing Dharma ) . |
| 22 | She must be getting ready to go . |
| 23 | Oh , she did n't know what she meant , she must be going mad , it seemed impossible to think about anything in a straightforward way . |
| 24 | Now in every corner , wherever she looked , the ghosts of the past seemed to be congregating to mock her until she felt sure she must be going mad . |
| 25 | She must be going mad . |
| 26 | ‘ If she has run away , she 's left every single piece of clothing behind — even her cardigan , so she must be frozen solid by now . ’ |
| 27 | ( Of course , no utterances are safe from the post-Freudian trick of claiming that they mean the opposite of what they say , but in the interpretation of literary texts we must be given additional , fairly unequivocal evidence of a discrepancy between speech and meaning , as we are given for Iago , but not for Othello . ) |
| 28 | Of course , they must be kept flat and if any pressed material is left lying around uncovered it will begin to curl up . |
| 29 | They must be getting close now ; already Dalgliesh could see the soaring west tower and pinnacles of Ely Cathedral to the east . |
| 30 | The horse needs to help the rider to a greater extent over these fences and they must be made careful note of when walking the course . |