Example sentences of "might have had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He might have had to explain his mother 's activities , but she was dead . |
| 2 | He might have had to explain why he 'd put a Fax machine out here for the sheep to use on a quiet day . |
| 3 | Stair thrust an arm around him , laid his head on Neil 's shoulder , and said , ‘ Let me treat you to a good ‘ un at Rachel 's , Neil , ’ which completed the destruction of any desire Neil might have had to treat himself . |
| 4 | And there , as they say , the matter rested , for there was now nothing further we could do ; and Meehan might have had to serve many more years in prison had not a further and quite unexpected twist come to this most tangled of cases . |
| 5 | And there were a hundred reasons why he might have had to ask Lexy to make the phone call . |
| 6 | The upward spiral on which film budgets were set suggests that Rank might have had to go on losing money for a long time before hitting on a way to achieve a steady supply of sellable films . |
| 7 | If we paid cash , we might have had to go to shareholders for a rights issue . ’ |
| 8 | Where after they 've been born , they might have had delayed breathing , not breathed immediately , so that type of baby might be at risk . |
| 9 | These machines are so rare that one like Ingrid 's , new , could cost £80,000 , and she might have had to wait four years for delivery . |
| 10 | It was an exclamation she might have had to clarify . |
| 11 | For example , a student chosen might have had to overcome some specific learning difficulty to gain success in modules ; another might have achieved success despite little previous exposure to formal further education . |
| 12 | His head lowered to find her lips , while any thought of resistance she might have had melted like an ice-block in boiling water . |
| 13 | Producer , Lyn Goleby was on a visit to the school to answer questions on the film , which ranged from how much say the author had in shooting the film , to whether ’ The Bridge ’ might have had to have a happier ending if it had been made with American money . |
| 14 | She might have had to stand . |
| 15 | The Collector shuddered at the thought that he might have had to endure his own illness within those walls . |
| 16 | Had they not had such a resource at their disposal some might have had to forego particular orders , others might have been obliged to withdraw entirely from certain markets , whilst still others would have been less willing to innovate with new products offering chances of survival or expansion . |
| 17 | Under the old system B might have had to bring two actions against A : in the Common Law Courts to get damages , in the Chancery to get an injunction to forbid the continuance of the building . |
| 18 | Or suppose that A has broken his contract to sell land to B ; here , again , B might have had to bring one action in a Common Law Court for damages , and another in the Chancery to compel specific performance . |
| 19 | The study of literature had become little more than a loose aggregate of philosophy , history , psychology , aesthetics , ethnography , sociology , and so on , and the Formalists felt that any specificity it might have had had been swamped by its adjacent disciplines . |
| 20 | The late arrival by 13 minutes of three of their key players left Peterlee with too much work to do at Consett where they went down in a first division game by 91 points to 58 as they were left wondering what effect Ivor James , Gord Laing and Allen Quarmby might have had had they been there for the start . |
| 21 | I mean , I might have had to shove the split match heads under Carol 's fingernails , or tie her to a tree and subject her to psychological warfare by , say , reading Hemingway aloud to her . |
| 22 | I loved your christmas centrefold but I was a little concerned that Pippin and PJ might have had to work very hard to get that shot . |
| 23 | X.desktop had the edge over VUE because of its availability under VMS , aside from any uncomfortable feelings DEC might have had opting for a product from one of its biggest competitors . |