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Example sentences for "you must have been"

  • Surely, surely, you must have been dreaming, Villiers; you were always rather fanciful.

  • You must have been in strange places, Villiers.

  • So you must have been, for you look as young and handsome as when I last saw you, Mary.

  • You must have been interested in the men who governed France.

  • Surely, Wyllard, you must have been struck by the manner of your wife's kinsman under my examination.

  • As to your own sensations, when you went to see the house, I would suggest that they were due to a vivid imagination; you must have been brooding, in a semiconscious way, over what you had heard.

  • Surely, surely, you must have been dreaming, Villiers, you were always rather fanciful.

  • Manabozho, with well-feigned surprise, "no; you must have been looking at me.

  • Manabozho," said the old wolf, "you must have been looking or you would not have got hurt.

  • The wolf answered--"You must have been looking at me.

  • You must have been a very little fellow," I couldn't help remarking, though Tom didn't mind it.

  • You must have been misinformed, monsieur.

  • You must have been drunk as a fiddler," shouted the captain.

  • You must have been asleep, at all events, or you would have discovered that your box was being moved," said the captain.

  • My dear friend, believe me, you must have been very strongly in liquor.

  • You must have been dreaming," said my father.

  • Trust me, my dear friend, you must have been slightly in liquor, and saw double.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    private audience; royal order; takes the; you again; you all; you happen; you know nothing about; you make; you mean; you might; you mustn; you suppose; you young; young gentlewoman; young gents; young maid; young maiden; young soldier; young student; youngest daughter; your company; your cousin; your father; your feet; your love; your wife