Example sentences of "must [verb] have [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Your father must have had many acquaintances in business and in his council work , but did he have any close friends ? ’ |
| 2 | Despite her handicaps Helen was an attractive , intelligent woman , and must have had many suitors . |
| 3 | did I have another conversation , Jess and Lucy so I must have had another conversation with you last night then Jess |
| 4 | ‘ I suppose we must have had more help than I remember , ’ he said after a while . |
| 5 | Exactly why , he must have had some sympathy , must n't he ? |
| 6 | We could n't see the slightest movement in the fog , but gradually the noise of the engines diminished and died away , and the collective sigh of relief from the top of Flying Control must have had some part in the clearance of the fog , as by the time all four aircraft returned ( bomb-less ) we could actually see the 1,000 yard marker on the other side of the field . |
| 7 | Tolby must have had some way of preventing Hubert from talking . |
| 8 | He must have had some friends in . |
| 9 | As he dwelt particularly on the menace of the French positions on the Left Bank , the Heir to the Throne must have had some difficulty hiding a note of ‘ I-told-so-you-so ’ For Falkenhayn , in his insistence on limiting the attack to one bank only , had stood in an isolation that was hardly splendid . |
| 10 | He was to see the beginnings of the great urban slums of New York and Chicago , and he must have had some sense of this if they were going to speak to American working people , but still , there was the mythology , the possibility of millions of dollars waiting to be made . |
| 11 | ‘ A good husband would naturally not discuss such things with his wife , but you must have had some idea . |
| 12 | She must have had some idea what she was doing . ’ |
| 13 | Surely you must have had some idea that something was wrong ? |
| 14 | Her voice stayed steady , despite feeling sick with anger and humiliation ; ‘ — but I imagine the Cabinet Office must have had some idea as to whether this is going to touch on security within this country . ’ |
| 15 | She must have had some kind of brainstorm . ’ |
| 16 | Nevertheless , Jackson , the estate agent , must have had some misgivings about the way matters were progressing . |
| 17 | She said : ‘ But he must have had some reason for wanting to talk to you . ’ |
| 18 | Even though Gundovald can never have said some of the things which Gregory attributes to him , the bishop of Tours must have had some reason for putting the words into his mouth . |
| 19 | I must have had some lessons at the Legation , though I have no recollection of them , for I learnt to read and write . |
| 20 | Still , you must have had some royalties from Taunton . ’ |
| 21 | Blyth had lots of time to realise what was happening , jumping about the Snake Park screaming as the frantic and enraged snake bit his stump repeatedly , and little Esmerelda must have had some inkling what was going to happen to her as she was slowly blown away . |
| 22 | The only conclusion that can be drawn from the above correspondence is that Stirling must have had some sort of operation in mind using parachutes during the period when he was returning from his second visit to Sirte . |
| 23 | He must have had some sort of a flight plan . ’ |
| 24 | I do n't know must have had some sort of virus or something |
| 25 | Nos. 41 and 57 which must have had some defects , were sold to T. W. Ward for scrapping at the same time . |
| 26 | He was knocked around so much by his father that he ended up with a crooked leg , but he must have had some courage , because he was the only one of his clutch to survive . |
| 27 | One consequence of this is that the sharp rise in the proportion of young couples in the owner-occupied sector over the post-war period ( and the even greater number who aspire to this sector ) must have had some effect in reinforcing fertility decline in Britain in recent decades although , of course , many developed countries have also experienced declines over this period , so it would be naive to emphasize this ( or indeed any single cause ) as the sole or primary explanation . |
| 28 | ‘ Ah , well , your little lecture must have had some effect . |
| 29 | ‘ You must have had some feeling for him , ’ he said a little crossly . |
| 30 | ‘ Somebody 's children must have had those dolls out , ’ said their owner plausibly , ‘ since 1890 . ’ |