Example sentences of "might have [verb] for [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I might have to ask for help with that as well . ’
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 In contrast , if a married woman were unfaithful to her husband she might have to die for Izzat to be restored .
7 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 . ’
8 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 .
9 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 .
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