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Example sentences for "must have been the"

  • But such, essentially, must have been the state of things, had not internal forces elevated and fractured the earth's crust.

  • But this view of the subject scarcely affects my argument, since at whatever period the fusion of any part took place, the destruction of organic life, if it existed, must have been the consequence.

  • Explanations, and worse, must have been the consequence.

  • Yes, I think it must have been the Chowchowtow.

  • Oh, then, it must Have been the Chowchowtow.

  • It must have been the agent," said Lucilla.

  • Thoth was the god of Hermopolis, the modern Eshmunen, and his patronage of writing and books shows that he must have been the deity of the Pharaonic race.

  • The formation of the Babylonian triad, and the differentiation of the divine persons who composed it, must have been the work of a theological school.

  • It must have been the doubles of the food and drink upon which the ghost fed in the world below, and the doubles of the other objects buried with the corpse, which it enjoyed in its new mode of existence.

  • Of all people in the world with whom he expected to find himself face to face I am sure I must have been the last.

  • It must have been the impulse to say a silent good-by to him that sent me slowly down the hall, though I was scarcely aware of moving.

  • It must have been the harder to do that since the lover's pleading ardor could be detected beneath all the cold formality in which he couched his communications.

  • The unfortunate cook, thus strongly urged, advanced a step or two, and holding her candle just where it prevented her from seeing anything at all, declared there was nothing there, and it must have been the wind.

  • It must have been the cat, Sarah," said the girl, addressing herself to some one in the house.

  • It must have been the cat, Sarah,' said the girl, addressing herself to some one in the house.

  • The unfortunate cook, thus strongly urged, advanced a step or two, and holding her candle just where it prevented her from seeing at all, declared there was nothing there, and it must have been the wind.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    magnitude stars; must admit; must become; must bring; must come; must confess; must either; must further; must hasten; must here; must just; must look; must meet; must necessarily; must never; must not; must pass; must read; must recollect; must return; must speak; must suppose; must turn; must wait; must work; quick motion