Example sentences of "so you [modal v] [subord] well [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's going to happen , so you might as well tell them . |
| 2 | ‘ I think you 've got what you wanted , so you might as well leave . ’ |
| 3 | No one would be more grateful than I if I could stop looking at every penny , but you wo n't catch Amsterdam so you might as well stop trying . |
| 4 | I keep a supply of batteries to save the blasted generator , so you might as well make use of them . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I mean to find out , even if it entails keeping you here indefinitely , so you might as well start talking and get it over with . |
| 6 | ‘ So you might as well go . ’ |
| 7 | Ashington 's not in the bathroom , come on , downstairs please , Bryony while we 're up here lets you go to the loo , you might as well , look when your upstairs already , you said you needed a wee so you might as well go now while we 're upstairs |
| 8 | My head 's buzzing with it so you might as well share my tinnitus . |
| 9 | ‘ It does n't last all that long , so you might as well milk the business while you can . |
| 10 | ‘ She wo n't be the last , so you might as well get used to it , ’ Albert said — rather cruelly , it seemed . |
| 11 | ‘ We 're both staying here , so you might as well get used to that idea . ’ |
| 12 | they used to be cheap , there was a lot of one pound seventy , they 're only a little slab , drive me boring doing the little ones , so you might as well get two of the big ones once you 've done |
| 13 | in this private in this country does n't mean that you 've got to pay for it , it does mean that you 've got to pay for yourself , but its not like obligatory , so you might as well get the money you can , if you that , at that , at that standard are n't , had n't you really ? , if you can get that money , you 'd be thick not to go for it |
| 14 | One response to this objection , though , is that sooner or later you have to decide what someone means and how it is relevant to you ; so you might as well take that decision consciously , while you have the book or article in front of you to check . |
| 15 | However , our current D-G 's stopped all that , so you might as well use it before the date-stamp runs out . ’ |
| 16 | Because if you will have a had to get a recorder to listen to this side so you might as well put something on the other side and send it to me but of course there is no rush and in return you 'd be showing you take off anything or any part that you care to use . |
| 17 | And also can you put Rebecca 's tracksuit on cos she 's got quite a grubby frock on , so you might as well put her jogsuit on as well . |
| 18 | Obviously , you need a heavy bomb to cast the distance , so you may as well use bolt-rig tactics that will take a great deal of sag out of that great length of line when you clip up to the rod . |
| 19 | I 'm not going to advise the trustees to release the inheritance even if you do continue , so you may as well get rid of her . |
| 20 | Similarly , there is no point in heaving away at a recalcitrant waste pipe if you intend to replace it , so you may as well cut through it a short distance from the wall with a hacksaw . |
| 21 | And once they 're all sticking out , dead and scaly , they 're redundant anyway , so you may as well trim it all down . |
| 22 | Well , we have n't time to fight it out , so you may as well accept my company . |
| 23 | ‘ You were good to the old thing during her lifetime , ’ he said , ‘ so you may as well trot along . |