Example sentences of "he must be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He just played with his food , ’ Chatterton frowned , ‘ and that means he must be over the crash period , which means his behaviour 's going to be difficult . ’ |
| 2 | He must be past thirty now , but she would never have believed he could have grown to make such a gross figure of a man . |
| 3 | He said , ‘ There 's absolutely nothing to see and it 's awfully full of nettles ’ ; at the same moment Jean Powers was saying noisily that not a solitary soul had been into the Britches in years and the village wondered what Edward got up to in there — ha ha ! — some people said he must be into black magic , or maybe he was growing cannabis . |
| 4 | He must be off his … he must be joking ! ’ |
| 5 | In short , he must be of their kind … |
| 6 | ‘ God and the King ’ , he proclaimed , ‘ are so in a league … as one can not be enemy to the one , but that he must be to the other . |
| 7 | He must be for ever two steps behind them on complicated murder cases . |
| 8 | Torquay and fire prevention oh I said he must be with Richard , yes she said he is |
| 9 | His skin was dirty in places and wrinkled and Endill thought he must be at least fifty years old . |
| 10 | She said , looking into the box , ‘ You must know Fergus Wolff , he must be at your college , I think . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He must be at least sixteen hands . ’ |
| 12 | He must be at least six feet two , she decided confusedly , wondering why those blue eyes turned her legs to jelly so quickly . |
| 13 | Darlington Civic Theatre HE can still do the high kicks and he still has that sexy giggle , even though he must be at least … |
| 14 | He must be on his way . |
| 15 | He must be on the way down . |
| 16 | He must be on the premises lawfully , either by virtue of a warrant , under statutory authority or by consent . |
| 17 | He is in for the ride , so he must be on the payroll . |
| 18 | He must be on his way back by now . |
| 19 | So he must be on Alan and Dee . |
| 20 | He must be near nine inches long . ’ |
| 21 | But he must be behind what happened . |
| 22 | If it 's on the tank he must be in the lav , he never takes food in there with him . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ He must be in one of the containers down there . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Oh Christ , he must be in one of the paddocks or the garden . ’ |
| 25 | She had lost one son — lost him truly , for she realized that he must be in Ireland now — but she was determined that she would not lose a daughter . |
| 26 | That is rather a ponderous way of saying that no one in his right mind doubts the truth of my assertion about the states in which Bill will be found , because there are two of them and he must be in one or the other . |
| 27 | For the discourse analyst , on the other hand , the more personal and particular the occasion for the participants , the more limited and circumspect he must be in his interpretation . |
| 28 | He must be in his early forties , Belinda decided , while Faye , she knew was thirty-eight — fairly old to be having a first child , which added a greater sense of urgency and importance to the task of keeping her pregnancy on track . |
| 29 | I suppose er , he must be in the top ten of all-time great British footballers , would n't you say ? |
| 30 | He must be in one of the Coptic parts of the city . ’ |