Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [conj] well [vb infin] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er because having written half the songs as well , the lyrics all mean something so I may as well have spoken them as sung them . |
| 2 | I asked , but I might as well have saved my breath because the plane suddenly climbed , banked , then began descending fast towards the island again . |
| 3 | I might as well have grown asparagus in the time . ’ ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It 's just that I might as well have stayed in the sitting-room , that 's all . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I might as well have lobotomised the patients . |
| 6 | I might as well have pleaded aloud with him to make love to me , she thought , I wanted him so much ! |
| 7 | I might as well have had that shower , she thought drily ; at least I would have felt a hundred times more human . |
| 8 | I might as well have had the game as well as the name . ’ |
| 9 | I might as well have suggested that Spock was a paedophile . |
| 10 | If I pulled out he would probably do me over for being a chicken , but if I competed and beat him ( unlikely but not impossible ) … well , I might as well have booked my hospital bed then and there . |
| 11 | I could n't sleep so I thought I might as well get going . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Soon I thought I might as well try to get into a band and so I answered a few ads in Melody Maker and joined a few bands . |
| 13 | ‘ If you are going to make cutbacks then you may as well stop talking about a parish ministry . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Well she might as well get rid of him now , I suppose while she 's young enough to find perhaps find |
| 16 | as if pleading helped — she might as well try to appeal to the better nature of a power-crazed tyrant . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She might as well have saved her breath . |
| 19 | She might as well have saved her breath . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm not an invalid , ’ she protested , but she might as well have argued with a rock . |
| 21 | ‘ You are quite mistaken , ’ she said desperately , but she might as well have spared her breath . |
| 22 | She might as well have addressed her request to the tablecloth . |
| 23 | But since I am not real and they are not real you might as well stop reading at about this point . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | You might as well hope to get manure from a rockin' horse 's backside as help from Him . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ We had a common view , ’ Lewis once conceded in a letter , but we had it before we met , ’ insisting that no one ever influenced Tolkien : ‘ You might as well try to influence a bandersnatch . ’ |
| 28 | Popular culture gives us plenty of female verbal incontinence ( cf the Andy Capp joke : ‘ when two wives get together , who has the last word ? ’ ) and illogical women who ca n't keep to the point ( as a character in the soap opera Coronation Street comments , ‘ you might as well try to knit fog as follow what 's in a woman 's mind ’ ) . |
| 29 | You see that 's the trouble you see every individual is different in the make up of life they are , so some 'd get pregnant by oh you might as well say looking at one another and another one they might perhaps go years and not get pregnant . |
| 30 | ‘ You might as well say take him on the swings in the park . |