Example sentences of "she must [adv] have " in BNC.

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1 She must finally have become bored with school .
2 She must instinctively have replaced it while her mind was on other things .
3 Afterwards she thought that , of course she must already have formulated the plan somewhere at the back of her mind ; but at the time it burst upon her with all the excitement of a vision .
4 Mary of Guise 's name nowhere appears , but she must surely have been involved .
5 Lili looked calm and showed no sign of the guilt she must surely have felt had Robert meant his words as an accusation against her .
6 She must also have been quite a handful judging by Coward 's ironic telegram to a Broadway manager requesting 58 per cent of the gross for the task of restraining her from being ‘ Grock , Beatrice Lillie , Theda Bara , Mary Pickford and Bert Lahr all at once . ’
7 However , she must also have been thinking of Annabelle ( bride 's name ) when she added , ‘ She was of course only too good for him : but as nobody minds what is too good for them , he was very steadily earnest in pursuit of the blessing . ’
8 If Saint Winifred did indeed conceive and decree her departure with the wagon for Ramsey , and if a saint 's plans can not be disrupted by man , then surely she must also have willed all that happened after … the ambush by outlaws , the theft of the cart and team , the abandonment of the load , and with it , her reliquary , to be found by my tenants , and brought to me here .
9 She must also have had good sources of information , as she was said to know all the gossip of the village .
10 She must just have got off , and she was probably watching me from somewhere high above the distant sea .
11 Similarly , bees learn landmarks after taking off : a recruit who arrived and fed at the feeder , but was transported back to the hive while feeding , returned without the slightest memory of the landmarks she must certainly have seen on her arrival .
12 And the believer agrees all too easily that he or she must indeed have this sort of proof if belief is to be possible .
13 She must indeed have plumbed the general sense of Jaq 's message …
14 I could see , again , how striking she must once have been , when her primly drawn-back grey hair had presumably matched her eyes , ‘ with all that 's fair of black and bright ’ .
15 Her voice faded as her body weakened and drooped , so that she seemed no more than the shadow of the eagle she must once have been , and a shadow that was losing itself in the darkness of a cage .
16 Morse had never seen Mrs Marion Kemp , but from the marriage photograph that hung in the living room he realised that she must once have been quite a vivacious woman : dark , curly hair ; slim , firm figure ; and curiously impudent , puckish eyes .
17 He had hated her , and subconsciously she must always have known .
18 Eve looked out of the window down the town , standing as she must often have done over the years .
19 Only later did I appreciate what sacrifices my mother made to give it to us , and how lonely she must often have been when we were all away at school ; after our father 's death she became almost possessively devoted to us .
20 But about a year ago she had begun to remember incidents which she must hitherto have blocked from her mind .
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