Example sentences of "it must [verb] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | D' you remember I showed you a manuscript — it must 've been some years ago , now — purporting to be by some mariner who remembered an English cargo boat having gone down between us , here at Møn , and Malmo — during the First Schleswig War ? |
| 2 | Think it must have been all the cleaning and dusting I did . " |
| 3 | It must have been such a shock for him when Maria Luisa had told him she was going to marry Steve . |
| 4 | I suppose looking back on what I said at the time it was true and I did really love you and I still do but now it 's not sexual or romantic , it was n't sexual then because my mind was too pure and partly because you were such a huge chunk of my life , one seventh , and I think I always will do n't know what that 's su oh it 's love you I suppose for you it must have been such a small thing and at fifteen stroke sixteen you can probably only just remember me I was fourteen actually I was the middle son who was n't properly blond unlike the brothers and hung around near you far too much . |
| 5 | It must have been that day or the next , Adam thought , that he or one of them , surely he , had first suggested the commune idea . |
| 6 | An uncommonly good lunch it must have been that day . |
| 7 | Others said it must have been that girl who worked here , the one who was the German officer 's mistress , she knew everything that was going on around here . |
| 8 | It must have been some time after we had last met . |
| 9 | It must have been some bender ! |
| 10 | I was surprised to see that the recording venue was good old Abbey Road Studios : there is such a prominent background rumble that I had assumed it must have been some city church . |
| 11 | It must have been some challenge to oversee that . |
| 12 | It must have been some time in August when I took those pictures , Rufus thought , and a couple of weeks later it was all over . |
| 13 | And it must have been some comfort to her , a few months later , to receive a picture of Anna , healthy , happy , as she could never have been in the orphanage . |
| 14 | It must have been Good it must have been some sort of carbonate , and the salt that was formed was from the hydrochloric acid was calcium chloride , so it must have been ? |
| 15 | ‘ It must have been some idea the architect had . |
| 16 | It must have been some force to knock the fences down . ’ |
| 17 | I think it must have been some sort of |
| 18 | Yeah , cos it was you with erm well it must have been some years ago . |
| 19 | It must have been another gift . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It must have been those boys who climbed the wall after my apples , ’ said Miss Miggs . |
| 21 | It must have been those candles at the table . |
| 22 | ‘ It must have been those honeyed cakes , ’ she added hurriedly , and gestured to the Empress . |
| 23 | Er it must have been half ten , eleven o'clock , if not later I suppose . |
| 24 | It must have been several dances later that she noticed Annie standing on the edge of the dance floor . |
| 25 | How much money went with this is not known but the scale of the ruins — the shell of the reactor is still visible — suggest that it must have been several million dollars even in 1950s prices , perhaps 1 per cent of the gross national product of Argentina , or roughly the equivalent of a whole year 's research budget for a developed country . |
| 26 | How long it took the different ancestors of these very different animals to evolve such tongues we do not know for there is no fossil evidence of any antiquity to tell us , but it must have been several million years . |