Example sentences of "must have be on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite suggesting that God must have been on the side of the Philistines in the battle , they talk as if God is literally enthroned above the ark , and the bringing of it to the camp will mean the bringing of God himself . |
| 2 | Laurin concluded that the Tetraceratops , as a species , lay between the pelycosaurs and therapsids , and that it must have been on the way to becoming a mammal . |
| 3 | Must have been on a visit . |
| 4 | He had visited the place in 1937 and it must have been on this occasion that he took photographs of the village and of St Michael 's Church there ( where later his ashes were to be interred ) . |
| 5 | Some of them must have been on there . |
| 6 | If ever Joseph felt King of Spain it must have been on his triumphal progress in Andalusia . |
| 7 | It was n't long before I got caught shoplifting again so I was back on remand at Low Newton — I think I must have been on remand there about eight times . |
| 8 | He must have been on his way to Jordan 's place . |
| 9 | It would not come although it must have been on the same day as the trip to the cathedral and her aunt had undoubtedly been with her . |
| 10 | He jumped up from the chair he was sitting on and knocked something on to the floor , something that must have been on the arm . |
| 11 | I sometimes wonder at the sheer multiplicity of the oyster Gryphaea arcuata there must have been on the earliest Jurassic sea-floors over what is now Europe , and the millions upon millions of creatures ( whatever they were ) that chewed their way through mid Jurassic mud to produce the trace-fossil Zoophycos . |
| 12 | Nathan must have been on deck all night . |
| 13 | It must have been on a main line , because there were two sets of tracks , and the mouth of the tunnel had seemed to him — he might have been five , six ? — bigger than anything he had ever seen , bigger than anything he had known could exist . |
| 14 | He must have been on one or other of them every night , in weather much like this , all through that last summer of his life . |
| 15 | Effectively this means that the previous dealings must have been on the same terms and a consistent procedure must have been followed . |
| 16 | He must have been on the phone as soon as she had stormed out of the door . |
| 17 | We all know the facts and figures by now … if you do n't then you must have been on a different planet this weekend … |
| 18 | He instantly spotted the ‘ yorker ’ delivered by the man from BBC Wales — in effect , that the England match could not have been one he expected to win at the start of the season , therefore the Scottish match must have been on the credit side of the ledger . |
| 19 | Shoes , it must have been on your shoes . |
| 20 | I must I must have been I must have been on good form that day |