Example sentences of "[verb] that [pron] [vb mod] [conj] well " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took George several hours to get used to the fact that I was deceitful and irresponsible , but eventually he agreed that we might as well get as good a price as we could — £10 , he thought , if they had n't spotted the broken springs . |
| 2 | It took them an hour to convince her that it would be all right to go , that she would not be disloyal to Peter ; but , finally she agreed that she might as well indulge the boy . |
| 3 | ‘ Having committed one offence and been given a criminal recordfor innocent hacking , they may feel that they might as well get in a bit deeper . ’ |
| 4 | Watching the other girl jog into the distance , Lindsey hesitated fractionally before deciding that she might as well go for a swim anyway . |
| 5 | The station cafe was still open so I decided that I might as well go in there . |
| 6 | BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE has left the restaurant , I decide that I might as well leave too . |
| 7 | You might then find that having gone to the trouble of preparing a good speech and a joke just in case , you decide that you might as well give the speech anyway ! |
| 8 | But within five minutes of her putting a foot on the pavement outside the large building she 'd found that she might as well be in a hot and steamy sauna bath . |
| 9 | If I am to change it I feel that I might as well put a larger engine in it , could you please advise me what would be the best petrol engine and would I have to convert it to 12 volt ; which I do n't really want to do . |
| 10 | They reason that they might as well make the same effort journeying to meet the other people in person . |
| 11 | Chewing on her lip in thought , she finally set off towards the ten-gallon drums , reasoning that she might as well try to find out as much as possible while she was here , and run like hell when the time came . |
| 12 | As explained before , this means that one might as well cut the big bang , and any events before it , out of the theory , because they can have no effect on what we observe . |
| 13 | Then , perhaps a little frightened by his own rhetoric but thinking that he might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb , he increased the figure to 1 million . |
| 14 | The dividing line between the pro-cases and the contra-cases is so blurred and ill defined that you might as well toss a coin to decide it . |
| 15 | I thought she 'd argue that she might as well go somewhere she 'd always wanted to visit . ’ |