Example sentences of "must have 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 It , too , must have been there for years .
4 It must have been there for at least an hour .
5 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 .
6 They must have been there for years . ’
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