Example sentences of "must have [vb pp] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I told Nathaniel that he must have completed two jumps . |
| 2 | I must have worn two or three copies out ! ’ he laughs . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Later , confronted with the ambiguously dominating Attwater who kings it over the natives on his atoll , one of them ‘ broke into a piece of the chorus of a comic song which he must have heard twenty years before in London : meaningless gibberish that , in that hour and place ’ , seemed hateful as a blasphemy : ‘ Hikey , pikey , crikey , fikey , chillinga — wallaba dory . ’ |
| 7 | It would have done but he , he used to be what we called a proper chain smoker , oh he must have smoked hundreds of Woodbines in a week , must have been hundreds , that was his life . |
| 8 | They must have crossed 1,000 balls in the first half hour . |
| 9 | You must have served five years [ two after membership ] in a legal office and be 25 years of age before you become eligible to become a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives . |
| 10 | Another fine eight-part composition , the motet ‘ Super flumina Babylonis ’ , was in 1583 sent by de Monte to William Byrd whom he must have met thirty years earlier during his visit to England as a member of Philip II 's chapel . |
| 11 | But I must have met thousands of mothers in my career . |
| 12 | He derived some comfort from Rajiv 's habitual elegance ; wearing a suit , shirt and tie that must have cost two months of his salary as an Assistant Under-Secretary of State , he was sitting at the other side of the large , uncompromising desk that the Department provides for its most senior officials , not a hair out of place and his black eyes alive with amusement . |
| 13 | I mean that thing I went to on Wednesday it must have cost thousands of pounds . |
| 14 | and , I must have collected two hundred at most . |
| 15 | He paused for a moment , then went on softly , ‘ Lord , Merrill , but you must have made one hell of an impact in just one evening for him to come all this way , presumably simply to see you . ’ |
| 16 | Tom Jones had hit the scene wearing black horseshoe-necked , flared-leg catsuits — I must have made two dozen crimplene copies . |
| 17 | I must have made thousands over those university years , much to the annoyance of my own family , as I 'd rarely made the effort for them . |
| 18 | The same stack is excited at the beginning and end of the sequence and if the stator and rotor teeth are aligned in this stack the rotor must have moved one tooth pitch . |
| 19 | Once a guy came running after me , he must have run fifty yards up the road , but I had to ignore it , because I ca n't be big-headed enough to turn round and go , ‘ Oh , he 's running after me . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ He was yelling out in terror and must have run 50 yards before two blokes caught him and rolled him about the pavement to put the flames out . ’ |
| 21 | That 's alright that , I must have done six loads of washing , for some reason I just did n't seem to have enough to do me loads |
| 22 | Once over the stile he was soon amongst the hawthorn and gorse and on the track which led to the little hut ; he was doing as Alfred must have done two days earlier . |
| 23 | Boscastle is a truly delightful place , which looks very much the same as it must have done 600 years ago with its narrow winding streets and pretty 14th-century cottages . |
| 24 | The pipebridge section alone held five tons of hot water when it was full and in all we must have pumped hundreds of tons around the system . |
| 25 | Surrounded by apple orchards and huge cedar forests , the older parts of the town looked like parts of the Alps must have appeared sixty years ago . |
| 26 | He must have embezzled thousands of pounds over the years . ’ |
| 27 | A reconstruction of how the burial mound must have looked four thousand years ago has led experts to believe the ceremonies were linked to the appearance of the midsummer sun . |
| 28 | Lake Manyara , ringed by crusty salt deposits , is an excellent contemporary example of how Olduvai must have looked two million years ago . |
| 29 | Relief is on a sliding scale and to get maximum relief , you must be aged at least 55 and when selling shares must have owned 25 per cent as a working director for 10 years . |
| 30 | ‘ We must have forgotten dozens of people . ’ |