Example sentences of "must [adv] [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why , Edward wondered , did Brackenbury speak yesterday of being off-duty on Thursday when he must already have been on the point of resigning his post ? |
| 2 | Even if he added some new music for the revival , all the rest must already have been on paper for the premiere . |
| 3 | He hurried back to the Limousin and completed a piece of business , negotiations for which must already have been in train . |
| 4 | He tried to visualize its brown wooden bottom — he could not — there must still have been at least one sheet there . |
| 5 | ‘ I should have realized at once — that Frenchman who was killed , the same poison must still have been on the skin of his attackers , and it would almost certainly still have been strong enough to affect him as well ! |
| 6 | But of course , Agnes realised , Sims — or whoever he 'd been born — must once have been on the far side of The Wall , too . |
| 7 | As for our own species , the oldest evidence , going back to possibly about 35,000 BC , reveals that the dead were not only equipped with weapons , tools , and ornaments but also with food , which must often have been in short supply among the living . |
| 8 | It was an insignificant point in its way , for Harry knew from Marjorie Mallender that Clare had met Minter whilst at Oxford — he must simply have been at another college — yet somehow his faith in his own reasoning was undermined . |
| 9 | Something like the last few sentences must however have been at least a part of Tolkien 's intention . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , I did not , and I must actually have been in the gardens . |
| 11 | Religion must certainly have been at the forefront of his mind when , shooting the sharks , he twice looked death directly in the face . |