Example sentences of "i must [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must 'ave been light-headed with starvation . |
| 2 | I must have been asleep . |
| 3 | When he returned with the blankets I must have been asleep . |
| 4 | ‘ Dear me , I must have been asleep for … |
| 5 | If he did I must have been asleep . |
| 6 | I think maybe I must have been Spanish in some former life — I feel as though I 've come home . ’ |
| 7 | I must have been tired , she said to herself reasonably . |
| 8 | I must have been desperate ! |
| 9 | As I can remember very little about the rest of the day I presume that I must have been unconscious most of the time . |
| 10 | I must have been unconscious for hours . |
| 11 | I must have been unconscious a long time . |
| 12 | ‘ Idiot that I was , I was crass enough to insist , since I could n't see her privately ; to push her into a corner and tell her … tell her — oh , lord , I must have been mental ! — that if I could n't see her privately I would n't see her ever again . ’ |
| 13 | I must have been half-mad . |
| 14 | ‘ I must have been 13 . |
| 15 | I tried to stare my dislike into him but I must have been unsuccessful for he merely said with a primitive accent : ‘ Good in auto , yes ? ’ and grinned . |
| 16 | I must have been six or seven — something like that — and we had drawing lessons once a week , taken , believe it or not , by a Mr Moore . |
| 17 | I must have been jealous of her life away from me , and wished to have her entirely to myself . |
| 18 | I must have been wrong I suppose . |
| 19 | " I think I must have been mad , " said Mrs Denham , taking off the tea pot lid and staring nervously into its smoky silver depths . |
| 20 | I must have been mad to kill him ! |
| 21 | I must have been mad on the strength of one fish , going all out boilies but it was a double and I just had a feeling this was how the better fish might fall . |
| 22 | I must have been mad for a few hours , and I swept you up in it too . |
| 23 | Her face flaming , Luce muttered , ‘ I must have been mad to let you seduce me . ’ |
| 24 | I guess I must have been frightened but it all happened so quickly . |
| 25 | Looking back on it , I 've decided I must have been clear round the bend ! |
| 26 | I must have been crackers even to think it ! ’ |
| 27 | I must have been tight . |
| 28 | I 'd look better blonde and I assumed that I could wash the colour out before my parents saw : I must have been naive to think that bleach would affect my hair differently from anything else . |
| 29 | Then one evening — I must have been 12 or 13 at the time — we were driving back from visiting my nan in Kent . |
| 30 | ‘ I must have been insane , ’ he muttered . |