Example sentences of "must [verb] been [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was exaggerating , of course , but all the same , she must have been away for longer than she had intended . |
| 2 | She and Tom must have been here for quite a long time , then . |
| 3 | He must have been around for years but I did n't know what his name was . |
| 4 | It , too , must have been there for years . |
| 5 | It must have been there for at least an hour . |
| 6 | It must have been there for years , abandoned to the plunderers , an illicit plaything for the local children , a welcome shelter for the occasional vagrant like the seventy-year-old alcoholic who had stumbled on the body . |
| 7 | They must have been there for years . ’ |