Example sentences of "might have [verb] 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 I might have to ask for help with that as well . ’
3 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 . ’
4 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 .
5 Indeed , if one did not know Cruyff better , one might have mistaken for gloom the mood in which he unsmilingly accepted his reprieve .
6 She entered with an assurance which a less experienced investigator than Dalgliesh might have mistaken for arrogance or insensitivity .
7 In contrast , if a married woman were unfaithful to her husband she might have to die for Izzat to be restored .
8 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 . ’
9 KKR said that if Hillsborough could not refinance the debt it took on when it launched a $2.4billion leveraged takeover in the building industry , it might have to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy .
10 It 's the sort of gem Richard Burton might have bought for Liz Taylor .
11 Ancient dolphins might have competed for resources with seals , giant penguins , and other sea birds .
12 ‘ It sounds , ’ Husband said , ‘ as if our soldier friend has probably destroyed anything that we might have to show for months of expensive —
13 The price that an institution ( or a whole country ) might have to pay for success in reversing a particular state of dependency might in the long run not be worth paying .
14 It looks like one Henry the Eighth might have discarded for reasons of vanity .
15 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 .
16 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 .
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