Example sentences of "must have [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 That must 've hit Walsall Wood as a mining village .
2 A private party in some high-rise apartment block ; looking down into the city from the forty-second floor , it was like being inside a radio , one of those old valve radios , and Jed almost told Creed what he thought , he almost blurted something Creed would n't even have understood , You must 've had radios thrown away some time , did n't you ? but the rush blew over and he was still staring down into the forest of lit buildings and he still had n't spoken .
3 You must 've had people passing through there , famous people who you can register , get them there , do , do this sort of thing .
4 I thought it was a fine display of irreligious pop art myself , but the local Scout Master must 've taken offence , for the Dog pack packed up and headed for The Robey , where they currently host their anti-establishment , multi-media club nights .
5 ‘ He must have stored things here .
6 The civic grandeur of Liverpool , which in the middle of the nineteenth century was ever expanding on the most monumental scale , must have influenced Mr Bushnell 's taste , for he had strong views on what he wanted .
7 These surveys , although not published before the first major statement on the curriculum , must have influenced HMI thinking .
8 It must have worn Christy out .
9 We must have lost pints . ’
10 We must have lost pints . ’
11 You must have lost count of the number of men who have seen your charms . ’
12 Staring at her reflection , she realised she must have lost weight .
13 She must have lost consciousness .
14 Then I must have lost consciousness . ’
15 When we called , he replied , although he soon must have lost consciousness .
16 She may have done : it is surprising , and must have struck contemporaries as highly suspicious , that vengeance was not taken on the murderers .
17 The play must have struck Eliot as fitting in perfectly with intichiuma ceremonies and with the general idea of drama evolving from primitive ritual .
18 ‘ He must have hidden talents , eh ? ’
19 ‘ This Steve must have hidden talents .
20 Such reading must have recalled Eliot 's Harvard reading in anthropology and psychology of religion when he had noted , amongst other things Jevons 's stress that ‘ the worship of stones is a degradation of a higher form of worship ’ .
21 When the Scots came south , this fellow was probably in their retinue and must have searched Irvine out . ’
22 Like any political arriviste , he could not be sure whom he should trust among his colleagues , but the faction-fights of the previous thirty years must have taught Ceauşescu that in the Romanian Communist Party ideological affinity or even past services counted for little .
23 ‘ You must have received instructions . ’
24 Furthermore there is no qualifying period during which the applicant must have received maintenance from the deceased .
25 She 'd tried to keep the newspaper story hidden from her because she did n't want to discuss it until she 'd had more time to get her thoughts in order … but of course mother had found it and started questioning compulsively about abortion , what exactly was the law on it now , how did you get one , where did you go , what did it cost , things she must have heard Dorothy and her friends discussing a hundred times but which the newspaper report had triggered into today 's obsession .
26 Charles felt he must have heard Steen being interviewed at some stage on radio or television , because it was very familiar .
27 She does n't , of course , mention it , but as a researcher living among the Masai she must have become part of the total social fact herself .
28 She turned slowly to give him a long , searching look and decided he must have become expert at keeping his emotions on a tight rein .
29 It would therefore follow that unless Molla Yegan were using the title though in fact an ex-kadi , he must have become kadi again in the years alter returning with Molla Gurani .
30 On these figures , Felix must have become bishop by 631 at the latest , so that three years before this gives 628 for the slaying of Eorpwald , whose conversion would have followed very rapidly indeed on Eadwine 's and his assassination very swiftly on his conversion .
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