Example sentences of "well [vb infin] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | She forgot to call the apartment again , and decided by two in the morning that she might as well stay at the clinic for what was left of the night . |
| 2 | I mean I said to Shaun on a Friday night we 'd better decide this , otherwise there 's no point in us coming through tomorrow mate , we might as well stay at home and go to the football or something |
| 3 | I have therefore devoted little space to the problem in this study , but those who feel that it is important might well look at Dr Johnson 's comments on Macbeth — he disliked ‘ the Butcher 's knife ’ — and also at the correspondence between Gerard Manley Hopkins and Robert Bridges . |
| 4 | But at the moment small primary schools may well look at the opting out procedure , and I would have to say to you that in many cases those very small primary schools are receiving , by the wish of the Council , a very substantial subsidy from the Local Education Authority in the manner in which they are funded and |
| 5 | The researcher engaged in the social study of baptism may well decide at an early stage of the study that in modern British society baptism is more of a social than a religious ceremony . |
| 6 | True it is that in a simple case the investigation of a suspect 's criminality may well terminate at the moment of charging , but often this will not be so . |
| 7 | It may well take at least the lifetime of a Parliament to put things right , but Labour will start immediately . |
| 8 | With such an indictment and such a challenge in terms of the variety of disciplinary insights needed , the reader may well wonder at this stage whether one brief chapter can even begin to make any impact on this question . |
| 9 | ‘ Come on , ’ he said , ‘ we might as well call at the cab-rank , before we go to the mortuary . |
| 10 | In these circumstances in my judgment there is entirely adequate support for Paul of the sort that Mrs envisaged and indeed I am inclined to the view that one to one dedicated support for him out of classroom hours may not be desirable and might well tend at least to come between him and his fellow pupils so if one turns to Mrs schedule one on page forty seven , papers before me , I think that the appropriate arithmetic is to provide for twenty hours per week at seven pounds per hour for thirty seven school weeks , that is an enabler for the school period , I confess that I find it much easier to deal with Mrs schedules on page forty seven by treating schedule one as having to do with the , the school period , schedule two having to deal with the home periods and schedule three with parental care , as it is actually set out on page forty seven , and I confess that during the case I kept confusing myself about this point , schedule one deals not only with school but also , rather confusingly , with an enabler at home and I think it easier to confine that schedule to er school time . |
| 11 | You may well notice at first that your dog scratches persistently when it is infected , in spite of being told to stop doing so . |
| 12 | Anyway , if you always want to hear a piece of music played in a certain way , you might as well sit at home in the lounge and listen to your favourite , definitive CD recording . |
| 13 | ‘ We may as well start at the top , then . ’ |
| 14 | Some church leaders ( and lay people ) are already doing it regularly — guiding individuals in their praying , Bible reading , daily living — others , already over-busy , might well groan at the thought of the faithful queueing up for individual direction . |