Example sentences of "must have been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remembered a swamp draining into a lagoon some distance to the right of the highway — the road must have been raised for him to have seen that distance . |
| 2 | She must have been looking for me because a few seconds later she spotted me and came over . |
| 3 | He must have been looking for the keys . |
| 4 | Master Thomas said they must have been looking for people , not things , and thought you should be warned , so … ’ |
| 5 | He must have been looking for bathroom . |
| 6 | Must have been looking for a house . |
| 7 | Sir Patrick Mayhew must have been hoping for some winners and losers , as he considers how to kick-start his talks process . |
| 8 | If it was n't exactly political pessimism of the order of ‘ mourir pour Danzig ’ it must have been alarming for Americans to hear from High Commissioner Pignon 's diplomatic adviser of the feeling that French interests were not important enough to die for because the country was being given over to the Vietnamese and when the war was over French influence would have disappeared . |
| 9 | They are distributed along the shorelines in innumerable enclaves ( sensu Crisp , 1 978 ) * many of which must have been isolated for long enough ( since the sea level rose to its present height after the retreat of the last ice sheet ) for them to have evolved local forms to suit the particular selective influences of their habitats . |
| 10 | It must have been irritating for you . " |
| 11 | Though put beautifully into the mouth of Hannah by the storyteller , it did not have its origins with her , but , to judge from its mention of the king at the end , must have been composed for national celebration at some point during the time of the monarchy . |
| 12 | He must have been gouging for half an hour when an idea seemed to strike him . |
| 13 | Well he must have been transferred for some reason or other . |
| 14 | There was little spare cash in the home , so real sacrifices must have been made for me . |
| 15 | They must have been riding for a long time , but there was no sign of a large town , only a solitary light shining ahead . |
| 16 | At first I thought this must have been intended for someone else and began grubbing about in the wastepaper basket to find the envelope . |
| 17 | These settings must have been intended for private use since Calvin objected to polyphony in church , but when the Lutherans adopted them , using Ambrosius Lobwasser 's translation of Marot-de Beze ( Leipzig , 1573 ) , their congregations undoubtedly sang the tunes . |
| 18 | ( b ) The property must have been intended for private use , occupation or consumption . |
| 19 | It must have been mistaken for a deer . " |
| 20 | They must have been singing for , though Sharpe could hear nothing , he could see their mouths opening and closing in unison . |
| 21 | Each clone must have been grown for at least 18 months at Kew before being distributed ; during this period , the plants are regularly inspected for disease and insects . |
| 22 | The keys must have been lost for some time . |
| 23 | It is not known where the Gospel was written but it must have been written for a Jewish Christian community . |
| 24 | This has the appearance of an emergency military operation which may not apply to the other civil defences , but these too must have been commissioned for a specific occasion , but where the emergency may not have been too critical . |
| 25 | I thought she must have been waiting for someone … ’ |
| 26 | She must have been waiting for some time . |
| 27 | Grant got the impression that Larsen must have been waiting for his signal , like a sprinter crouched in his blocks waiting for the starter 's gun to launch him into motion . |
| 28 | The folding of a protein is a highly cooperative process ; in the case of R2 the energy cost of the clustering of carboxyl side chains in the interior of the protein must have been accounted for by other means . |
| 29 | I must have been walking for nearly an hour , he thought . |
| 30 | She must have been going for the six o'clock train , and she was probably in a dickens of a rush when … ’ |