Example sentences of "might have [vb pp] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In England obituaries regretted that he had not appeared more regularly for his country , while in Dunedin cricketers could only dream of the great things Jack Crawford might have done for Otago cricket … if only a World War had not interfered with something as important as cricket . |
| 2 | He might have said for example : ‘ The Word shall never return void but its impact will be a whole lot greater if it 's presented well . ’ |
| 3 | On a dry pitch Kieft might have gone for goal instead of squaring the ball to Berghuis , one of four new Dutch caps to appear during the game , whose shot sailed high over the bar . |
| 4 | Indeed , if one did not know Cruyff better , one might have mistaken for gloom the mood in which he unsmilingly accepted his reprieve . |
| 5 | She entered with an assurance which a less experienced investigator than Dalgliesh might have mistaken for arrogance or insensitivity . |
| 6 | One might have hoped for silence from Diana Mosley but now she has been giving us the benefit of her experience on the subject of sexual politics : ‘ There are quite as many henpecked husbands in the world as there are battered wives , something feminists fail to notice . ’ |
| 7 | It 's the sort of gem Richard Burton might have bought for Liz Taylor . |
| 8 | Ancient dolphins might have competed for resources with seals , giant penguins , and other sea birds . |
| 9 | It looks like one Henry the Eighth might have discarded for reasons of vanity . |
| 10 | Even naked , Leo did n't at all seem at a disadvantage , and , as she watched the two men , she finally and forever dispelled any lingering feeling she might have had for Ryan . |
| 11 | Cairns-Smith discusses , in more detail than I can accommodate here , early uses that his clay-crystal replicators might have had for proteins , sugars and , most important of all , nucleic acids like RNA . |