Example sentences of "must [verb] been [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Gould 's arrangements for his own children were meticulously considered , which must have been of some consolation to his wife , who had dutifully resolved to accompany her husband to Australia .
2 He had been Town Sergeant from 1846 , and a formidable character he must have been to any offender .
3 Welcome as the Cabinet 's new policy must have been to some Ministers in the Lords , such as Lord Pakenham , then Minister of Civil Aviation and an abolitionist to his fingertips , voting for suspension can not have been an agreeable experience for the unyieldingly retentionist Lord Chancellor , Jowitt .
4 He started to give her expert directions and it was plain that he must have been to this particular establishment before .
5 It must have been with some degree of cautiousness and a heightened sense of responsibility that Gould once more stocked up on shot , caps , and powder on his way back through Launceston for the journey home .
6 There is a display also of various types of mountain refuge or cabin , from which you can judge how extremely uncomfortable it must have been for those invited by Count Russell to share his quarters on his favourite mountain of Vignemale , for the so-called ‘ Russell ’ is quite the most Spartan of shelters , little more than a hollow scooped out under an overhanging rock .
7 It must have been at that time that his habit of keeping notes on his travels began .
8 They must have been at that game for ages — and no anaesthetics , either .
9 She had said ‘ the rest of you ’ and I had never heard her so distance herself before , but what astonished me was the realisation that my father must have been at that party , must have returned with my mother to the villa in the small hours , must have been aware of me in my little white pyjamas and Panama hat .
10 It must have been at some time , because I can speak it now .
11 This very large accession takes up where the first deposit stopped , and covers the years 1861 to 1920 , in addition to some titles and papers of earlier date which must have been at some time extracted from their proper place .
12 He had visited the place in 1937 and it must have been on this occasion that he took photographs of the village and of St Michael 's Church there ( where later his ashes were to be interred ) .
13 It also gives the information that Rolle was " accustomed to show himself very familiar to recluses , and to those who needed spiritual consolation " and it must have been during this period of his life that he met his disciple Margaret de Kirkeby .
14 Considering how many times he must have been through this script , there are a lot of ‘ ums ’ and ‘ you knows ’ and pauses , but eventually we get there .
15 It is difficult to visualize now , but it must have been within this pavilion that the young Roshanara consulted her spies as she reclined on carpets beside the gently bubbling irrigation runnels .
16 ‘ Well , it must have been after that he had his accident . ’
17 Something like that , it must have been like that .
18 Marley must have been like that himself .
19 It must have been like that for Euturpia , when she was turned out to the cabana .
20 ‘ It must have been like this in Arkaig when my father first went there , ’ Cameron said to Menzies .
21 It must have been like this watching a man being broken on the rack , Blanche thought .
22 It must have been in that one moment of darkness , as she 'd been taking her hand away .
23 Others , however , joined in the exercise : ‘ It must have been in such and such a way ; I mean , there 's a story which says …
24 This being must have been in some way necessary to humanity , it is inconceivable that this is not so , for surely there would have been evidence of at least one enduring civilisation that had neither ‘ god ’ nor temple .
25 Must have been in this room when I got here .
26 It must have been in these years that Henry II and Eleanor became increasingly estranged .
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