Example sentences of "must [vb infin] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must 've made a mistake — Marie said she 'd write to me . |
| 2 | The downstairs was inches deep in sherry bottles , newspapers , strange men 's shoes , and someone must 've lit a fire in the kitchen because there was a big black patch on the floor , as if a rocket had taken off . |
| 3 | It , it must 've cost a fortune , because er extra because of all the hotel accommodation we had to have as well . |
| 4 | Beautiful piece , one of the earliest I 've seen — but he must 've had a hard head , ‘ coz it broke . |
| 5 | ‘ All it tells us is he must 've had a foreign accent for them to give him a name like that . |
| 6 | When you 're going round the Fens , you must 've had a very early start in the morning , did you ? |
| 7 | Maxie Carlo must 've cracked a joke . |
| 8 | If this were so then these other clubs must have breathed a sigh of relief when City 's books were not produced . |
| 9 | To qualify for an ultra race , runners must have completed a full marathon in under three hours 30 minutes . |
| 10 | He must have constructed a pretty good strong bow too ( according to my detailed instructions ) which would by now no doubt be broken into unidentifiable pieces in distant undergrowth . |
| 11 | Mike Gatting presented , and in the pre-match interviews he stressed that it was very , very hot , and I swear Gatt must have lost a stone just standing out in the middle talking about the pitch . |
| 12 | Looking back on that then , you must have lost a great number of colleagues and workmates that it must give you sort of mixed feelings looking back on it ? |
| 13 | ‘ And take something for yourself ; you must have lost a day 's trading to chase after us . ’ |
| 14 | She 'd never had a weight problem , of course , but she must have lost a few pounds over the past few days , because the waistband of the shorts she was wearing this morning — which she had purchased in New York only last Saturday — was already far looser than it had been . |
| 15 | Since he did not have the physical strength of most of the others , this was important for him and must have contributed a lot to his effectiveness . |
| 16 | I think we must have missed a briefing from |
| 17 | He bought all the most fantastic " unrealistic " fiction he could find and afford ; by the rules they must have hidden a clue away in it " somewhere . |
| 18 | Thus , at least one of the systems that children have been learning over the centuries in the ancestral forms of BV must have incorporated a three-way distinction of meet/meat/mate . |
| 19 | Now that in England we pay an average of six copper pence per lemon , I think I would still find them almost worth the silver pennies which in z 533 must have represented a pretty large sum . |
| 20 | Indirectly this must have represented a challenge to the influence of Aethelred of Mercia in the East Saxon region . |
| 21 | She must have dozed a little and the train grew stuffy as the sun hit the windows . |
| 22 | But the fact that he must have discerned a certain shyness in her responses … |
| 23 | You must have received a NEWOED1 form completed by the lexicographers and the New OED Computer Group Manager before starting . |
| 24 | You must have received a NEWOED1 form completed by the Lexicographers and the New OED Computer Group Manager before proceeding . |
| 25 | You must have received a NEWOED1 form completed by the Computer Group Manager before starting . |
| 26 | You must have received a NEWOED2 form completed by the lexicographers and the New OED Computer Group Manager before starting . |
| 27 | He would never understand how she could memorize all those complex , impossibly long poems , yet forget the words of a simple song she must have heard a thousand times or more . |
| 28 | They must have heard a lot of wonderful music-making . |
| 29 | I must have heard a car door slam , or something . ’ |
| 30 | And it should be said that , at least outwardly , Murphy and his men retained their charm and their good humour throughout what must have become a harrowing experience . |