Example sentences of "must [verb] been like " in BNC.
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| 1 | I begin to get some idea of what the Roman games must 've been like . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It must have been like this in Arkaig when my father first went there , ’ Cameron said to Menzies . |
| 3 | For the chick , it must have been like suddenly landing in the Sahara . |
| 4 | Anyone who has romantic ideas of what it must have been like for great women and men to be filled with God 's Spirit should think again if the story of Mary is anything to go by . |
| 5 | ‘ Just think , this is what Heymouth must have been like before electricity was discovered , ’ she said . |
| 6 | At least one bookseller remarked to me that so many ex-library books had come on to the market in the last few years that he had begun to realise what it must have been like when the great monastic libraries were being dispersed . |
| 7 | To visit them is to gain an insight into what many of our own wetlands must have been like . |
| 8 | To live in these courts must have been like living in perpetual gloom , thank goodness they were some of the first to go during the rehousing purge between the wars . |
| 9 | As I picked my way through the frozen woods towards the observation post which commands a unique view over the former battle-ground of the Marne , I wondered what it must have been like to be a soldier . |
| 10 | Sharing a duvet with Mia must have been like sleeping with Unicef . |
| 11 | For shareholders , it must have been like winning the pools . |
| 12 | Something like that , it must have been like that . |
| 13 | MESSIEST DESK : Viscount Weymouth 's was reminiscent of what the world must have been like before they invented waste-paper baskets . |
| 14 | Mr Justice Judge told Mrs Salmon , of Park Gate , Hants : ‘ I ca n't imagine what the last 10 years must have been like for you waiting for this to be sorted out . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It must have been like a drug to him . |
| 16 | It must have been like a drug to him because he sounded completely obsessed . |
| 17 | Marley must have been like that himself . |
| 18 | ‘ For inspiration I researched what it must have been like when , after one or two volleys of musket-fire were exchanged , everybody was hacking at everybody else with edged weapons . |
| 19 | I tried , for the first time in my life , to understand what it must have been like then , under tsarist rule , where people , peasants , were no more than livestock , to be dealt with by the aristocracy as they saw fit . |
| 20 | None of these activities had blotted out the picture of what Horatia 's last moments must have been like . |
| 21 | To be greeted by complete strangers with instant derision was a sobering experience , and it vividly reminded me of what it must have been like for those first black people , in the eighteenth century , walking the streets of England freely . |
| 22 | He fought Christ 's battles there for ten years — it must have been like our brave missionaries now going into the wildest and most uncivilised parts of Africa — because the pagan King Morken was his enemy and envied the fame of Kentigern . |
| 23 | It must have been like that for Euturpia , when she was turned out to the cabana . |
| 24 | There was no easy way to answer the bitterness in her voice , and Julia remembered what David had said about his mother 's probable feelings during the war and tried to imagine what it must have been like for Mrs Wallington , stuck in Scotland , knowing only a little but guessing all too much of what was happening to her own country — and to her two sons . |
| 25 | ‘ I ca n't imagine what that must have been like , ’ she called after him . |
| 26 | ‘ It must have been like Hell in here , ’ said Jimmy . |
| 27 | We forget what life must have been like for people without anaesthetics and painkillers . |
| 28 | It must have been like this watching a man being broken on the rack , Blanche thought . |
| 29 | It must have been like rubbing salt in an open wound . |
| 30 | I tried to picture what she must have been like , the young woman who had diligently allowed her life to fade away working at this solitary chore . |