Example sentences of "must [verb] [vb pp] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Must 've heard this fucker coming in , ’ deduces the striped pyjamas . |
| 2 | I was pretty mad and must have sounded that way . |
| 3 | It must have amused that bastard greatly to write back saying you were betrothed . |
| 4 | ‘ The Foreign Minister must have authorized this reply . |
| 5 | He is standing as he must have stood that afternoon on the shore of the Gulf of San Miguel , four-square and haughty , bucklered , helmeted , spurred , and looking out over the greatest ocean in the world . |
| 6 | That meant , or so I like to flatter myself , that it must have struck some chord with at least one practising politician . |
| 7 | But I must have missed that film . |
| 8 | ‘ It must have fallen that way . |
| 9 | Although the Club was for Brakspear 's an outlet for their products without many responsibility of property up-keep , their generosity was far in excess of what might be expected on strictly commercial terms and doubtless when their relationship and arrangements were terminated in 1983 , the Club 's former President , John Chalcraft , also the Brewery 's retired Managing Director , must have felt some regret . |
| 10 | Dr Lee has recently pointed out that although the resources which went into the exporting industries could have been channelled elsewhere , the return would almost certainly have been less : " An eighteenth-century economy without resource to trade would have been smaller , less diversified and must have generated less growth even than the modest rate of increase actually achieved . " |
| 11 | I felt sure she must have escaped this way . |
| 12 | If the answer to that question can not be verbalised succinctly then the meeting must have served some purpose other than the interchange of information fields ( it may for example have had a social value or a " credit " assessment value ) . |
| 13 | We must have sensed that war was inevitable , as Birtwistle and myself had two feverish years in ‘ 38/'39 , when we made many hard ( in those days ) ascents , including a few pioneering routes . |
| 14 | Promoter Barry Hearn told me : ‘ He must have created some kind of record already with this his ninth world title fight in under two years . |
| 15 | Fernand wears his bleu de travail every day and he must have handled that rail umpteen times — the threads could have come from him . |
| 16 | The Etruscans of the second century B.C. must have discovered some allegory of death in such episodes . |
| 17 | Fran must have made some noise , some movement , some tiny betraying gesture , because he swung round , his face hardening when he saw her in the doorway . |
| 18 | Sigmar left no heir and his passing must have caused some apprehension amongst the people of the Empire . |
| 19 | And he must have done some healing , because he was no longer moving so slowly . |
| 20 | Curtis remarked to Springfield that he must have seen more action in Rockford in the space of a few days , than he had done in the previous few years . |
| 21 | I expected it to be either genetics or haematology , after what you must have seen this morning . ’ |
| 22 | Such masters of the merciless put-down must have studied each other 's writings through the long intellectual civil wars of the 1930s and after with a mounting respect that no dogmatic divide could dim . |
| 23 | ‘ Those things must have implanted some sort of image in their mind , stimulated the right emotions to make them do it . ’ |
| 24 | She was saddened by the number of times the man must have asked this question . |
| 25 | I can well imagine how he must have looked that day , framed by the doorway of the vehicle , his dark , severe presence quite blotting out the effect of the gentle Hertfordshire scenery behind him . |
| 26 | So you must have left that room early int it ? |
| 27 | ‘ Since you remember those moments we shared so vividly , my prowess as a lover must have left some impression on you , ’ he gritted toughly , then , his eyes glinting dangerously , he told her , straight from the shoulder , ‘ Though in actual fact I was n't talking of our time on your bed , but of your interest in my financial standing ! ’ |
| 28 | Judging from his stock , funerals must have held some position of importance to have merited such an impressive display of hatchments . |
| 29 | ‘ It must have happened that way , I suppose . |
| 30 | Must have happened some time after Buchanan and his sidekick came here . |