Example sentences of "must have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They , they must have existed these characters |
| 2 | Jimmy Adams , too , who must have pushed match-award adjudicator Everton Weekes close to a three way split , sat head bowed in the dressing-room , contemplating the following week 's engagement at Eppleton in the Durham Senior League . |
| 3 | ‘ I told Nathaniel that he must have completed two jumps . |
| 4 | Going about their daily tasks , the people of these villages must have grown tired of the tramp of marching feet . |
| 5 | Although Georgian architecture is now so popular and so familiar , its introduction must have shocked some people at the time . |
| 6 | I was pretty mad and must have sounded that way . |
| 7 | " Perhaps that 'd be going too far , " but I must have sounded wistful , because he said , " I do n't see why . |
| 8 | I must have sounded astonished . |
| 9 | The theory must have sounded wonderful to the think-tankers who dreamed it up . |
| 10 | I must have prepared some twelve pieces for possible auditions . |
| 11 | It must have amused that bastard greatly to write back saying you were betrothed . |
| 12 | I must have worn two or three copies out ! ’ he laughs . |
| 13 | He must have worn those jeans on countless beaches and fishing trips . |
| 14 | ‘ The Foreign Minister must have authorized this reply . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I must have stood next to them in the Tube , passed them in the street , of course I 've overheard them and I knew they existed . |
| 17 | That meant , or so I like to flatter myself , that it must have struck some chord with at least one practising politician . |
| 18 | ‘ I must have missed that one . ’ |
| 19 | But I must have missed that film . |
| 20 | I was thrilled to hear of cuts on TV on at least two occasions but NatWest must have missed this . |
| 21 | I wanted nothing more , though I think Dana must have wanted other things that I never thought of offering him ; with him alone I would have been happy to do what I had always denied others . |
| 22 | Even on a far smaller scale the pilgrimages to Jerusalem of the third century B.C. must have represented important events . |
| 23 | He probably went twice to Spain with Scipio Aemilianus , in 151 and in 134 ; on his first journey he must have visited southern France , including Marseilles ( Polyb. 3.59.7 ) . |
| 24 | SAILING around the coast of England searching for shoals of fish , Gerorge Trowark , a Cornish fisherman born in 1877 , must have visited dozens of ports and harbours . |
| 25 | Aethelred 's parents had been married in 762 , so he will only have been about 11 when he became king on Alhred 's expulsion and those around him must have exercised real power . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Nuadu knew that the Robemaker must have summoned one of the creatures from the Cruachan Cavern to take his victim 's soul and , as he watched , the winged creature fell on the remains of the young boy , and settled on his chest , nibbling and clawing its way into his face . |
| 28 | For example one notices over many years of you know having teaching I must have taught hundreds now in different class groups , ca n't help noticing that although you 're the same , subject is the same , the syllabus is the same , the reading list is the same , the room is the same , the time of day may be the same , but the groups are completely different . |
| 29 | In addition , personnel working in this field must have received adequate training in the assessment procedure , and in the management of interpersonal and family problems . |
| 30 | Lear must have received considerable encouragement from the Fellows of the Zoological Society , just as Gould had after him ; not to mention the contacts necessary to recruit his 175 subscribers . |