Example sentences of "must have [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been towards the end of 1920 that Lord Darlington made the first of a number of trips to Berlin himself , and I can remember the profound effect it had on him . |
| 2 | Flowing water , evident from younger sediments of three billion years ago , shows that the temperature must have been above freezing , indicating the Sun was not as cool as some scientists suggest . |
| 3 | So Wilson 's work of ‘ Cader Idris ’ , even if only seen by Green as a print , must have been of seminal interest . |
| 4 | Any academic learning at Stamford , therefore , must have been of limited scope and only the rebel students and masters between 1333 and 1335 ever issued degrees . |
| 5 | Such an undertaking must have been of very little value . |
| 6 | In the Trocadero large quantities of objects were displayed in a crowded , haphazard fashion , and , while Picasso was undoubtedly overwhelmed by what he saw and experienced , the impression he carried away with him must have been of a very general , metaphysical kind . |
| 7 | Gould 's arrangements for his own children were meticulously considered , which must have been of some consolation to his wife , who had dutifully resolved to accompany her husband to Australia . |
| 8 | He had been Town Sergeant from 1846 , and a formidable character he must have been to any offender . |
| 9 | He started to give her expert directions and it was plain that he must have been to this particular establishment before . |
| 10 | Welcome as the Cabinet 's new policy must have been to some Ministers in the Lords , such as Lord Pakenham , then Minister of Civil Aviation and an abolitionist to his fingertips , voting for suspension can not have been an agreeable experience for the unyieldingly retentionist Lord Chancellor , Jowitt . |
| 11 | ‘ Between us we must have been to every bar within a mile radius of Times Square . |
| 12 | " Then you must have been to Paris before . " |
| 13 | All those lands have water , either acknowledged as lakes , or in winter pools throughout the poor , snipe-grass farmland ; how lovely the light must have been to his eyes . |
| 14 | I mean it was a report it must have been to the member authorities , was it a progress report or deliberations ? |
| 15 | You must have been to ‘ un cafe ’ , or to ‘ le cinema ’ , or watched ‘ le sport ’ on ‘ la têlêvision ’ . |
| 16 | You must have been with someone else . ’ |
| 17 | I must have been with the vet for an hour but the driver was still waiting to take me home . |
| 18 | He must have been with them all the time from Corry , to Raasay , to Kingsburgh , to Dunvegan : ‘ a fellow quite like a savage ’ — and they were followed , ‘ as colts follow passengers upon a road ’ , by local lads , barefoot , ragged , lazy and not wholly unmenacing . |
| 19 | Despite the volume of sheer hard physical slog there must have been with no vacuum cleaners , washing machines , electric mixers or all the other electronic gadgetry which have eased the burden of housework considerably Eva has no recollection of her mother getting uptight or tense . |
| 20 | It must have been with some degree of cautiousness and a heightened sense of responsibility that Gould once more stocked up on shot , caps , and powder on his way back through Launceston for the journey home . |
| 21 | If it is it must have been with croutons , since those lumpy floaters were n't there when the liquid-lunch-from-hell embarked on its inward journey . |
| 22 | We have seen what a struggle it must have been for men in the late 18th century to keep body and soul together — how much worse , then , for their womenfolk . |
| 23 | What a tragedy that must have been for them all . |
| 24 | Cecilia reflected on how massive the explosion must have been for her and that beautiful girl to have heard it up here in West Hampstead . |
| 25 | There is a display also of various types of mountain refuge or cabin , from which you can judge how extremely uncomfortable it must have been for those invited by Count Russell to share his quarters on his favourite mountain of Vignemale , for the so-called ‘ Russell ’ is quite the most Spartan of shelters , little more than a hollow scooped out under an overhanging rock . |
| 26 | It must have been for myself as much as any other that I issued that warning : It might be all too easy to take a wrong path ! |
| 27 | He could even appreciate how tricky a situation this must have been for the DIA , although it did little to ease his sense of injury . |
| 28 | We did not appreciate at the time what a wrench leaving the Weir House must have been for him , nor the difficulty he had in adjusting himself to four assertive stepsons he hardly knew . |
| 29 | It was brought home to Charles for the first time how much of a strain the last weeks must have been for a girl of her age . |
| 30 | How it must have been for our Stone Age grandmothers — swell , oh , oh , pop , look , a little one — oh , it 's dead — oh , I 'm dying , dying ; dead ! |