Example sentences of "must have [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must 've missed that one . |
| 2 | ‘ Must 've heard this fucker coming in , ’ deduces the striped pyjamas . |
| 3 | She must 've used more than that . |
| 4 | People were still walking up the drive , and one or two were beginning to walk back down it : they must 've had enough of visiting for today , like me . |
| 5 | They , they must have existed these characters |
| 6 | Although Georgian architecture is now so popular and so familiar , its introduction must have shocked some people at the time . |
| 7 | I was pretty mad and must have sounded that way . |
| 8 | I must have prepared some twelve pieces for possible auditions . |
| 9 | It must have amused that bastard greatly to write back saying you were betrothed . |
| 10 | He must have worn those jeans on countless beaches and fishing trips . |
| 11 | ‘ The Foreign Minister must have authorized this reply . |
| 12 | He is standing as he must have stood that afternoon on the shore of the Gulf of San Miguel , four-square and haughty , bucklered , helmeted , spurred , and looking out over the greatest ocean in the world . |
| 13 | That meant , or so I like to flatter myself , that it must have struck some chord with at least one practising politician . |
| 14 | ‘ I must have missed that one . ’ |
| 15 | But I must have missed that film . |
| 16 | I was thrilled to hear of cuts on TV on at least two occasions but NatWest must have missed this . |
| 17 | And that to him seems to be the answer to a problem which at sometime or another must have exercised most of use , and which he explains in the pamphlet which accompanies the display ; ‘ The art gallery , that supposed refuge and den of tranquility , I find a troubled place . |
| 18 | He believed she must have received some of his mailings by now as she was in an even worse temper than usual . |
| 19 | If a trust can be established with the posthumous child as trustee , then he must have received some benefit attributable to the intention of the deceased and arising from succession to him . |
| 20 | ‘ It must have fallen that way . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm sorry , you must have heard all this about Maria Luisa from your partner . ’ |
| 22 | You must have heard that . |
| 23 | She spoke to her husband , but I thought she was addressing me , for he must have heard this before , or at least known what was in her mind . |
| 24 | Well you must have heard enough on the phone erm and there and there 's no bull which I gave you |
| 25 | Because Jean-Claude must have felt all this , too , there was no point in my saying anything . |
| 26 | Although the Club was for Brakspear 's an outlet for their products without many responsibility of property up-keep , their generosity was far in excess of what might be expected on strictly commercial terms and doubtless when their relationship and arrangements were terminated in 1983 , the Club 's former President , John Chalcraft , also the Brewery 's retired Managing Director , must have felt some regret . |
| 27 | They were in the throes of obtaining a contract to build 87 hawker Furies , the first military order placed outside the close knit ring of SBAC constructors , and must have felt this was where their immediate future lay . |
| 28 | This structure relates to the underaccretion and uplift and has existed since the Miocene , when temperatures in the crust must have exceeded those of the shield geotherm . |
| 29 | It is said for the appellants that the decisions of Home Office ministers fixing their tariff periods were irrational , in public law terms , because they must have exceeded those recommended by the trial judge and the Lord Chief Justice . |
| 30 | Thucydides must have perceived this , without necessarily endorsing the extreme views which he gives two of his speakers : Alcibiades who said that democracy was acknowledged folly ; and Kleon who said that a democracy was incapable of running an empire ( vi.89 ; iii . |