Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb mod] as [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Dad is going to brand me an alcoholic I might as well have the game as well as the name ! ’ |
| 2 | Well if there 's no intention I may as well cancel him altogether . |
| 3 | ‘ No , it means that once you 're caught in those waves you might as well give up . ’ |
| 4 | And he advised Premier John Major : ‘ Once you have accepted the slump in the pound you might as well bring them down more . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't see you have a great deal of choice , ’ he drawled , ‘ unless of course you wish to walk home — in which case you may as well forget our agreement . |
| 6 | If we 're gon na spend money you might as well go to Littlewoods or |
| 7 | At this point I might as well confess to being what is called in the trade a ‘ megalithomaniac ’ . |
| 8 | It 's good for a direct amp-type sound ; I ca n't crank an amplifier up here that loud , so to get a good sound I might as well put it straight into the desk . ’ |
| 9 | Indeed if they fail to take the initiative they might as well abandon the people of the area to a grim fate . |
| 10 | If Klepner 's gon na get his job he may as well do the spiel . |
| 11 | Yeah if we 've got some money we might as well spend it . |
| 12 | and we 'd left it , and not bothered and then he says one day I might as well sling this out it 's no good is it ? |
| 13 | ‘ Not I. You might as well call it Trouble up at t'Mill and have done with it as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 14 | But Molly knew he would say when they got home , ‘ For what I shelled out for the water we might as well have filled the loos up with Chianti . ’ |
| 15 | Because if I 'm going to check out the council elections and things we may as well go together and do our business there and annoy all the people at the council all at once . |
| 16 | In some ways I might as well have been in the Outer Hebrides , Now everyone 's got a car it 's difficult to explain how isolated somewhere like Kensal Green used to be in those days . |
| 17 | At this rate she might as well give him a blow-by-blow description of the last time they had shared the bench , and save him the trouble of remembering . |
| 18 | Amy said : 'Look , if you 're not going to help with these envelopes you might as well go and put a new washer on that tap . |
| 19 | ‘ If you 're going to marry a madman you might as well find out what makes him tick ’ |
| 20 | After all , if you 're going to marry a madman you might as well find out what makes him tick . |
| 21 | in fact I feel the price we charge for concessions and youngsters is a giveaway we might as well give them away for nothing . |
| 22 | Just cos it 's your birthday I might as well give you one I suppose |
| 23 | If he was to have two bad results he might as well let then ’ merge . |
| 24 | If I ca n't attend to my own accounts after years of accountancy I might as well go and jump in the river . |
| 25 | ‘ Now we have lost the horses we may as well go back by the paths . ’ |
| 26 | Yeah , it 's er , it 's er cheap for the wardrobes , but expensive for the over bed unit , I mean Gary said well at that price he said the over bed unit we might as well get out of a catalogue . |
| 27 | For the rest of the trip there might as well have been a sound-proof grill between the front and back seats , Shannon reflected wryly . |
| 28 | ‘ If we sell one more player I might as well sell them all and forget the silver and take the gold — I 'm not going to continue to sell one or two a season . |
| 29 | Oh there was a tremendous variety , but then there were all the same in , erm you look at the er the three light fitting er it hangs down from the ceiling and has three branches out from it and it either has three lights hanging down or three hanging upwards , er with four ordinary bulbs in or candle bulbs in and shades , sometimes they have four , erm , there 's still an awful lot of those about and any lighting shop you look in you 'll still see plenty of those er and yet they 've got a tremendous number of disadvantages , one thing , a lot of them got glass shades , if you break one shade three year 's time you might as well throw away the fitting because you ca n't get another one er , and erm it 's a design that does n't , it does n't lend itself to giving a good lighting in a room at all er , it they , they harsh glassware , the edges of the glass during all round the room and that sort of thing |
| 30 | In fact you might as well sign the lot and give them to me . ’ |