Example sentences of "she must have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must have realised some years before that I was n't headed in the direction of St Margaret 's , Westminster , but she had still intended the occasion to glitter , a bright milestone in our uneventful lives . |
| 2 | She waited a long time ; so long , she must have fallen asleep , for the next thing she knew the room was in darkness , and Connor was in bed beside her . |
| 3 | After that she must have fallen asleep , for when she next came round he had gone . |
| 4 | She must have become conscious of my appraisal , because she suddenly turned and glanced at me directly . |
| 5 | She must have seen many similar noses in Rosenberg 's neighbourhood , but how she felt about the similarity has not been recorded . |
| 6 | I — She must have said this to you . |
| 7 | Well now would them girl would them girls say , she must have said more than that mother . |
| 8 | ‘ She must have gone mad ! |
| 9 | For a second I think she must have gone mad , then she makes a really loud rude-noise with her lips , winks at me , points at the Monster and laughs . |
| 10 | you see and ther I su I suppose there was about ten or a dozen girls behind the counter because it was early and late turn for them because you see we were open , you see , until ten o'clock at night , you see , and er then , well , anyway , after that erm I heard about this job going as Assistant Manageress at Cambridge and er so I applied and the Manager said to me , I thought well I 'll be here ten years , erm I can be here until I 'm you know , donkeys years and er so he said well look you may not get a job because he said that another girl coming from Norwich to go to Cambridge to see the Manager as well as you and so you might not get it , she might get it , and , however , I went and er I , I met the Manager and the Manageress in the front office , the Manager 's office and we all had a chat but I did n't see the girl from Norwich , she must have gone some other day and anyway I got the job , you see , and er , and so I went to Cambridge as Assistant Manageress and I very well and I got to know all kinds of people , all nationalities being a university city . |
| 11 | ‘ She must have gone berserk . |
| 12 | I felt sure she must have escaped this way . |
| 13 | She must have felt guilty about not inviting me as she gave me £1 to get myself home . |
| 14 | I do n't think Sophie had ever felt anything so complicated as guilt , so she must have done these things because she was fond of him . |
| 15 | The expression on her face read my last remark as no more than a condescending gesture of patient sympathy such as she must have met many times before . |
| 16 | It was so far from her usual style that Charles thought she must have undergone some violent change of personality . |
| 17 | As she watched the door swing gently to a close behind him , Lindsey was left with the crazy feeling that she must have imagined those few seconds when something , even if she could n't put a name to it , had passed between them . |
| 18 | He believed she must have received some of his mailings by now as she was in an even worse temper than usual . |
| 19 | I felt that she may have either directly or indirectly encouraged him to make this decision for several reasons : she was suffering ; she knew that he was n't going to leave the hospital and she accepted that ; and she did n't like seeing him talk himself into more suffering for him and for her ; and I do n't think there 's any question that in some sense she must have gotten this across to him that he ought to give up much more than anyone else . |
| 20 | She must have come this way often enough , she was a diligent churchgoer . ’ |
| 21 | There were numerous poems written about country estates in the eighteenth century , but again it is difficult to know how many of these Leapor read , though she must have read some . |
| 22 | Mrs Maugham was a great shopper in large department stores , and she could not resist their sillier notions ; if anyone had accused her of extravagance , she would have roundly rebuffed the accusation as fantastic and perverse , and yet she must have spent many useless pounds in her pursuit of useful acquisitions Similarly , she always maintained that she hated clutter-clutter , implying , in her tone , the dense decorative drawing-room knick-knacks of Victorian England and yet clutter reigned in all her rooms . |
| 23 | She must have spent half an hour making herself up . |
| 24 | And she must have had five pees or six . |
| 25 | I think she must have had that for her little boy . |
| 26 | ‘ She must have had such high hopes and now they have been dashed . ’ |
| 27 | She must have had some idea what she was doing . ’ |
| 28 | She must have had some kind of brainstorm . ’ |
| 29 | She must have had this whole floor bricked up from the outside . ’ |
| 30 | For example , she considered Yardley 's Foundation Cream highly desirable , and would purchase it at every shop where it was to be found , with the consequence that she must have had dozens of pots stored , all drying up , in the limited accommodation provided in her billet . |