Example sentences of "might have [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I remember that my invitation extended to 14 days , but it was so arranged that any visitor who might have to leave for the day could do so and could return again . |
| 2 | It might have ordered the Serbs to remove their heavy artillery , by threatening to use counter-force ; it might have arranged for the Muslims to move to a safe haven elsewhere in the country . |
| 3 | Only the day before I might have prayed for a stray round to puncture the car and my coffin and put me out of my endless misery . |
| 4 | The blow would have killed him instantly — at least , he might have lived for a few minutes in a technical sense , but he would have been unconscious and effectively dead . |
| 5 | In one bookshop in Kent you might have imagined for a moment that you were actually in a teacher-training college library . |
| 6 | I know the ‘ next steps ’ , i.e. when I will be contacted and when I might have to return for a second interview . |
| 7 | A middle-class woman , a woman with more money and fewer children , might have apologised for the squalor and the smell of a hundred stale meals . |
| 8 | They looked after each other , that was all , as each of them might have cared for a pet and been solicitous for its well-being . |
| 9 | He might have to settle for a reserve place on Thursday . ’ |
| 10 | Being unexpectedly faced by samples of one or the other could convert some to forms of expression which they might have ignored for the rest of their lives . |
| 11 | ‘ You might have dressed for the dance . ’ |
| 12 | Er they may have had some inkling , but you know they might have applied for a timings , you know it suddenly comes . |
| 13 | I might have to go for a recall . |
| 14 | t to get it , is just right because i i in twelve months time we might have to tender for every job . |
| 15 | Seth 's thin lips assumed a configuration that might have passed for a smile . |
| 16 | I might have wished for a little less detachment in the Rodrigo ( the adagio in particular is rather cool ) , but the Villa-Lobos offerings suit Kraft down to the ground . |
| 17 | I suppose it was the predecessor of the modern telex , but it was an unreliable piece of equipment and we never knew when it was going to misbehave and we might have to send for the mechanic to come and unclog its innards . |
| 18 | A modest journal article might have produced for the author a significant learning experience . |
| 19 | The list of British craft union leaders of this period is filled with men who worked for a spell in the United States or somewhere else overseas , as they might have worked for a spell in Newcastle or Barrow-in-Furness . |
| 20 | The FRES estimates that their members might have had about 60,000 temporaries on the payroll at any one time in 1985 ( a figure broadly consistent with the LFS data ) , but that some half a million persons might have worked for an agency for some period in the course of that year ( interview with FRES ) . |
| 21 | He might have shaved for a match , thought Perdita ; the girl in the petrol station must have a skin like garlic sausage . |
| 22 | Yet for all his own pleasure at tracing this evidence , Dixon could see little in his report which might have accounted for the look of extraordinary triumph he had seen on Morse 's face when he reported in at 2.45 p.m . |
| 23 | We are never told what use Marmeladov might have had for the shawl . |
| 24 | He had lost whatever little respect he might have had for the old guard of English political life . |