Example sentences of "he must [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christ , he must 've been good . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ But he must have been keen . ’ |
| 3 | He was a skilled architect who would grow used to praise , but he must have been pleased to hear that the Goldsmiths regarded his school as " not excelled by any other building of a similar construction in solidity , taste , and execution . |
| 4 | Poor man , he must have been frantic . |
| 5 | He must have been radical in religion and he favoured English support for the cause of the Netherlands , possibly being used by Sir Francis Walsingham [ q.v. ] and Robert Dudley , Earl of Leicester [ q.v. ] , to urge this policy on Burghley . |
| 6 | When they turn to the handling charge they must presume that he is not guilty of robbery ; and , if they are quite satisfied that he must have been guilty of the one offence or the other , they are bound to conclude that he was guilty of handling . |
| 7 | Although my father was six foot two , Geoffrey Archer seemed a real giant ; he must have been six foot four and broad in proportion , but he was a kind giant , having an instinctive sympathy with small boys . |
| 8 | He must have been six foot four , with a frame to match . |
| 9 | It was only when I did n't , and we 'd been making love without contraceptives for months and months , that I decided he must have been right . ’ |
| 10 | At the top of the scale , business must have taken a number of leading men out of town at the time the assessment was made , including , for example , Robert Thorne , Merchant Taylor and a notable benefactor to the City ; worth more than £20,000 at the time of his death in 1532 , he must have been one of the very richest men in England . |
| 11 | Reid felt the first spasm of panic sweeping over him for he knew what Lester was after but Reid just grunted back at Piggott which provided no encouragement at all and he must have been one of the most relieved jockeys in the race to see the starting stalls open for even in the parade beforehand he still had visions of Lester taking over . |
| 12 | He must have been sixty or so , but you had to get close to see it and if his hair was grey , someone had made a good job of disguising the fact . |
| 13 | So he must have been convinced that there really was a lot more where that came from . |
| 14 | he was very polite but he must have been bored by me . |
| 15 | Although I realized that my faulty literary judgment was the occasion for his reaction — for he must have been well-accustomed to reading manuscripts of surpassing dullness — because when lie wrote to Wakefield-Harrey it was in firm but polite terms , which , since they were from Eliot , were to him the next best thing to commendation . |
| 16 | So he must have been elderly when this Sinai experience took place . |
| 17 | Sam could sing and play the concertina and violin , and he must have been good for the BBC to come all the way to Baldersdale to find him . |
| 18 | He must have been well over six feet tall because Jenna was not in any way small , but she felt it now . |
| 19 | IF President FW de Klerk was hoping to ease the pressure on his government by announcing the release of eight prominent prisoners on Tuesday , he must have been disappointed by the reaction . |
| 20 | ‘ He must have been disappointed . |
| 21 | If so , he must have been desperate . |
| 22 | He must have been uncomfortable at the least but he never once even laid his ears back . |
| 23 | ‘ He must have been all of 40 , 50 … at least 60 yards out . ’ |
| 24 | Again Alice smelt spirits , and repressed disapproval : he must have been tired , coming in so late . |
| 25 | He had said he thought he must have been eight but that he did n't really know . |
| 26 | He must have been asleep . |
| 27 | He must have been asleep for hours . |
| 28 | Late in his recorded career he described himself as ‘ only simply lettered ’ , but his extensive citation of biblical , patristic , and canonistic authorities in both Latin and English suggests that he must have been familiar with academic sources . |
| 29 | ‘ He must have been terrified . ’ |
| 30 | He did n't elaborate on this unease but Wexford thought he must have been worried lest the two hundred and fifty was n't forthcoming . |