Example sentences of "she must have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | But from what we know of local practices It would seem that she must have been crucified Very near an ant-hill . |
| 2 | It was him she must have been thinking of . |
| 3 | She must have been gratified to hear from a famous person like himself . |
| 4 | ‘ She must have been hoping they 'd ask for something she could give . |
| 5 | ‘ Just think what she must have been through ! |
| 6 | But then she found that she must have been without noticing , for she discovered that there was writing everywhere which she could read without even trying . |
| 7 | I have heard her called a professional invalid , but I think by the time she retired to bed she must have been genuinely worn out , and duty done , how seductive must have been the temptation to escape into that room at the end of the house , with its garden door , and warm fire ; to write poetry , like Elizabeth Barrett Browning , and to be waited on by her daughter ( ‘ Coming , Mother ! ’ ) who would , and did , cope with the house and the shop and even my grandfather . |
| 8 | She disregarded such things altogether , rather relished them , in fact ; and she must have been very strong , because I never knew her to show any weakness , nor to be other than her usual cheerful , robust-spirited self . |
| 9 | He was sure that , even though he and Ari got along well , she must have been disappointed when Leila chose him for the job . |
| 10 | She must have been a very extraordinary artist to work with ? |
| 11 | Others , that she must have been born with it . |
| 12 | She had hinted darkly that Wilson herself must be to blame , that she must have been weak , must not have written plain enough and as she had been instructed . |
| 13 | If she was not , then she must have been almost the only member of Edinburgh political society who managed to know nothing about it — and that in itself would be a comment on her political awareness . |
| 14 | One would have thought that she must have been brought in from that area . |
| 15 | He concluded that she must have been reading modern novels . ) |
| 16 | She must have been watching because she smiled , or rather tried not to smile too obviously — she tried to conceal her pleasure in witnessing the beginning of her triumph by pressing her lips together , but the smile came out anyway . |
| 17 | Rudyard Kipling said of her : ‘ Being human , she must have been afraid of something , but one never found out what it was . ’ |
| 18 | She must have been noticed as being very different from the local ladies who were either young girls dressed tidily but poorly , or older women in black . |
| 19 | She must have been in her late thirties then , but to me she seemed timeless . |
| 20 | I think she must have been in a state of shock . |
| 21 | She must have been nearly forty years of age , tall , thin and plainly dressed . |
| 22 | She must have been born before his return to Ayrshire but whether or not her name was changed is not known . |
| 23 | Oh God , she must have been found out ! |
| 24 | The set ends at just the point where she was becoming a fashionable figure and , eventually , a popular one on a wider scale ; by the end of the Forties , she must have been one of the most admired singers of her day . |
| 25 | Quite a little cracker in her day , she must have been in her late thirties now . |
| 26 | And he waited , and then he heard one word come back , spoken in a whisper , she must have been close to sleep . |
| 27 | I thought she must have been waiting for someone … ’ |
| 28 | She must have been driving more erratically than she thought for she found herself half skewed across the road . |
| 29 | Workmen on the site had tried to catch the under-nourished dog , but had n't managed to get anywhere near her — they all thought that she must have been very badly abused because she was so terrified of people . |
| 30 | She must have been desperately lonely especially with all her family up in Scotland . |