Example sentences of "[modal v] as [adv] have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aunt Christine Smith stormed : ‘ He might as well have run over a dog . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It 's just that I might as well have stayed in the sitting-room , that 's all . ’ |
| 3 | For God 's sake , the silly little twinkle might as well have majored in handwriting or media studies ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm not an invalid , ’ she protested , but she might as well have argued with a rock . |
| 5 | We might as well have gone on holiday to the Sahara Desert . ’ |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | He might as well have descended on the Palace , announcing that he had come for a stay . |
| 8 | The revolutionaries might as well have come from another planet for all the relevance their schemes had to the real concerns of the peasantry . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | The vivid illustrations in the Blue Books of the 1840s could as well have come from the mines of Shropshire in 1770 . |
| 11 | 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 . |