Example sentences of "[modal v] as [adv] [vb infin] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But The Washington Post reported on 22 February that Mr Frohnmayer had been warned last October that he might as well start looking for a new job . |
| 2 | But since I am not real and they are not real you might as well stop reading at about this point . |
| 3 | as if pleading helped — she might as well try to appeal to the better nature of a power-crazed tyrant . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Aunt Christine Smith stormed : ‘ He might as well have run over a dog . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It 's just that I might as well have stayed in the sitting-room , that 's all . ’ |
| 7 | For God 's sake , the silly little twinkle might as well have majored in handwriting or media studies ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm not an invalid , ’ she protested , but she might as well have argued with a rock . |
| 9 | We might as well have gone on holiday to the Sahara Desert . ’ |
| 10 | My Mother was n't insured and the funeral director 's bill of £150 was a shock ( he might as well have asked for the moon ) . |
| 11 | He might as well have descended on the Palace , announcing that he had come for a stay . |
| 12 | The revolutionaries might as well have come from another planet for all the relevance their schemes had to the real concerns of the peasantry . |
| 13 | She was fascinated when he said he came from London — as far as she was concerned he might as well have come from the Moon , because she had as little likelihood of ever visiting either . ’ |
| 14 | Might as well get rid of it . |
| 15 | Might as well get rid of it eh ? |
| 16 | Well I think I 'd better do n't want none of these burpers so might as well get rid of them . |
| 17 | Well she might as well get rid of him now , I suppose while she 's young enough to find perhaps find |
| 18 | Might as well get rid of that . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It 's a fact we might as well learn to live with , and enjoy . |
| 21 | The vivid illustrations in the Blue Books of the 1840s could as well have come from the mines of Shropshire in 1770 . |
| 22 | It is not chemically necessary that a particular hormone has a particular effect — for example , that adrenalin produces bodily changes associated with anger and fear : as far as chemistry is concerned , adrenalin could as well have evolved as a tranquillizer . |
| 23 | ‘ If you are going to make cutbacks then you may as well stop talking about a parish ministry . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We may as well get cracking with research might n't we ? |