Example sentences of "he must have [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beautiful piece , one of the earliest I 've seen — but he must 've had a hard head , ‘ coz it broke . |
| 2 | ‘ All it tells us is he must 've had a foreign accent for them to give him a name like that . |
| 3 | He must have constructed a pretty good strong bow too ( according to my detailed instructions ) which would by now no doubt be broken into unidentifiable pieces in distant undergrowth . |
| 4 | He must have waved a thousand times , and it was barely ten o'clock . |
| 5 | I thought he must have gone a bit ga-ga but there was no harm so I went up to my room and did my hair a bit . |
| 6 | As Charles stood in his doorway and looked around , he must have seen a bustle of activity and a variety of dwellings only possible before the days of clinical town planning . |
| 7 | Minutes later , when Grant estimated he must have covered a good quarter of a mile , he again saw a grey wall barring his passage in the torch beam up ahead . |
| 8 | He must have become a fairly senior member of his own company , since he was one of the receiving trustees of Painter-Stainers ' Hall in 1580 , and one of those releasing the hall to others in 1605 . |
| 9 | But the fact that he must have discerned a certain shyness in her responses … |
| 10 | I could n't help thinking that he must have made a mistake . |
| 11 | He must have made a little joke . |
| 12 | Said he must have made a mistake and it was the Cynthia T. The Cynthia had one of the new masters whom I did n't know , so I could n't do anything . |
| 13 | He must have questioned a hundred people but none could remember seeing the green car . |
| 14 | I think he must have eaten a lot of it , though if it tasted anything like it smelt it must have been vile . |
| 15 | He must have learnt a great deal from Thomas May , and from him also acquired an enthusiasm for pottery , but he was quick to grasp the crucial principle that the changes in the form of some vessels was due to a chronological development , an idea that had eluded May , who never rose much above the level of that of ‘ an indefatigable draughtsman ’ , as his Antiquaries ' obituary rather dismissively calls him . |
| 16 | He must have looked a sight but he did n't think so then . |
| 17 | Nick had his sunglasses on , he must have looked a bit touched . |
| 18 | I thought he had just punched me but he must have produced a knife , ’ Mr Norrie mumbled through his swollen mouth . |
| 19 | But presumably he must have taken a shine , as the expression went , to Celia , particularly as he had gone to such trouble to seek her out and visit her at the Meadhaven Clinic . |
| 20 | He must have taken a thousand pictures with people . |
| 21 | He must have taken a shine to the jacket because he turned the corner — and never came back leaving the police red-faced . |
| 22 | He must have taken a cut in pay . " |
| 23 | He must have taken a short cut that she had n't noticed on her way down , as they arrived back at the house sooner than she was expecting and went straight to the veranda , where Faye still lay on the lounger , enjoying a long drink of iced water . |
| 24 | For a moment Agnes thought he must have pulled a muscle , then giggled as she , and she alone , realised he had come close to spilling his holstered pistol . |
| 25 | Referees and opponents who have crossed Souness during this dreadful Anfield season swear he must have had a humour and charisma bypass at the same time . |
| 26 | ‘ He must have had a reason . ’ |
| 27 | we know he must have had a father , from our knowledge of the world , but we did not know what he was . |
| 28 | If this reading of Ali is correct , it would seem that simply in terms of his daily allowance the kasabat kadi was better off financially at the beginning of his career than the new muderris ; but in any case , given the fees the kadi could expect to receive , he must have had a considerably greater income . |
| 29 | He must have had a hand in Lady Eleanor 's death . |
| 30 | ‘ It looks as if he must have had a run-in with a few trees finding his way home that night . |