Example sentences of "might have [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In one bookshop in Kent you might have imagined for a moment that you were actually in a teacher-training college library . |
| 4 | I know the ‘ next steps ’ , i.e. when I will be contacted and when I might have to return for a second interview . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He might have to settle for a reserve place on Thursday . ’ |
| 7 | Er they may have had some inkling , but you know they might have applied for a timings , you know it suddenly comes . |
| 8 | I might have to go for a recall . |
| 9 | Seth 's thin lips assumed a configuration that might have passed for a smile . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | He might have shaved for a match , thought Perdita ; the girl in the petrol station must have a skin like garlic sausage . |