Example sentences of "must have be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No but it must 've been talking about youngsters having cars |
| 2 | She must have been looking for me because a few seconds later she spotted me and came over . |
| 3 | He must have been looking for the keys . |
| 4 | Master Thomas said they must have been looking for people , not things , and thought you should be warned , so … ’ |
| 5 | He must have been looking for bathroom . |
| 6 | Must have been looking for a house . |
| 7 | The third time she saw it Allen was with her but he must have been looking in the wrong place , for he did n't see it although she did n't understand how that could be . |
| 8 | Sir Patrick Mayhew must have been hoping for some winners and losers , as he considers how to kick-start his talks process . |
| 9 | Taken together the expansion of the middle-class suburbs was from about 28 , inhabitants in 1871 to over three-quarters of a million ( 808,000 ) just after World War I. The other large suburbs , of mixed population , though with working-class majorities , experienced similar trajectories : Lichtenberg grew from 4,700 in 1871 to 145,000 in 1919 , Rixdorf/ Neukolln from 8,145 to 262,000 , and Spandau from 20,500 to 95,500.10 The total population growth of just these large above-mentioned mainly working-class districts was of the order of 1.3 million from 1871 to World War I , a phenomenon which taken together with the revolutionary uprising of 1918 must have been frightening to Berlin 's middle classes in a manner hardly imaginable today . |
| 10 | If it was n't exactly political pessimism of the order of ‘ mourir pour Danzig ’ it must have been alarming for Americans to hear from High Commissioner Pignon 's diplomatic adviser of the feeling that French interests were not important enough to die for because the country was being given over to the Vietnamese and when the war was over French influence would have disappeared . |
| 11 | ‘ The person who put this together must have been living in a box for the last 10 years . ’ |
| 12 | I must have been chatting to him for about 20 minutes and he told me he 'd needed an urgent lift . |
| 13 | There are a few conditions ; you must have been sailing within the area or bands briefed by the flotilla skipper , timing starts when the lead boat acknowledges the failure , and you must return to UK with a report signed by the flotilla skipper detailing the circumstances . |
| 14 | I suppose he must have been choosing between them . |
| 15 | It must have been irritating for you . " |
| 16 | ‘ Whoever did it must have been aiming at her head but thankfully they missed . |
| 17 | The entire college must have been humming with gossip and speculation . |
| 18 | They must have been moving alongside us in cover , taking our measure , and they had two archers ahead , one either side the track . |
| 19 | He must have been gouging for half an hour when an idea seemed to strike him . |
| 20 | It was him she must have been thinking of . |
| 21 | Tolkien must have been thinking of Njorthr the sea-god and Skathi , daughter of the mountain-giant , in Snorri Sturluson 's Prose Edda . |
| 22 | She must have been thinking of Steven ( bridegroom 's name ) . |
| 23 | As he stood on the tee with the green five hundred yards away , Kyle must have been thinking of another birdie , possibly an eagle . |
| 24 | She suddenly became aware that she must have been thinking of Naylor Massingham for quite a bit of the journey , when she was all at once incredibly jolted by a question that flashed into her head out of nowhere . |
| 25 | No and we 'd got three young girls , new , new girls and I saw those and I must have been thinking about Mandy and the car because they said something about oh when we leave we 're all going on a picnic to and I think it was Kettering or quite some time aw some |
| 26 | Ward must have been thinking along the same lines , for as the road flattened out and the mist began to glimmer with a strange brightness , he said something about the Promised Land . |
| 27 | But someone must have been slipping amongst them like a stoat , noting , memorizing , carrying word stealthily to the Duke of Atholl . |
| 28 | They must have been riding for a long time , but there was no sign of a large town , only a solitary light shining ahead . |
| 29 | But , fully clothed , he must have been reading in the sitting-room — or maybe he had just come in — when he too had heard the sound of a car crash . |
| 30 | I must say that I feel Charles Greenwich must have been joking in his reply . |