Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] just as [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I might just as well have been Judd . ’ |
| 2 | My mother and my best friend , both of whom believed that I could just as well have a bath at home , came with me . |
| 3 | She looked so competent and self-assured , so hard , so distant from his own thought and feeling that she might just as well have been a stranger , passing by without a glance in the street . |
| 4 | She did n't actually say , ‘ Please hurry up , oh please hurry up , ’ but she might just as well have done : her mouth twitched as if she were muttering it inwardly , her eyes kept darting to the clock on the mantelpiece and there were red , nervous spots on her cheeks . |
| 5 | Though she was completely covered she might just as well have been wearing nothing at all . |
| 6 | She might just as well have stuck a neon sign on her head , inviting him to make love to her . |
| 7 | She might just as well have saved her breath , because he kissed her anyway . |
| 8 | She might just as well have been driven to the airport by taxi , Jenna mourned . |
| 9 | She tried to push him away , but she might just as well have tried to move the Campanile . |
| 10 | You 've been with me for a whole week now and you might just as well have been a girl , or a boy without balls . |
| 11 | You might just as well have sent him out naked round the privates . |
| 12 | you might just as well have undercoated and put ordinary gloss on it . |
| 13 | You might just as well have put the phone down . |
| 14 | She could just as well have been arranging my funeral for all the co-operation I offered her . |
| 15 | When they eventually got to Paris , they found that they might just as well have stopped and had a meal in Hanover . |
| 16 | As for the idealistic school , they might just as well have gone to North Wales or Derbyshire . |
| 17 | ‘ They might just as well have done , ’ she said despairingly . |
| 18 | They looked phoney , but only because they looked new ; once they had cracked and weathered and slumped a little , nobody would ever credit that they might just as well have been built as concrete and glass shoe-boxes . |
| 19 | The £40,000 with of high technology next to it may just as well have come from another world as another country . |
| 20 | Mind you , he paid , I 'll say that for him , but it might just as well have been her — the money was thrown down the drain all the same ! " |
| 21 | They happened to end up in Cork but it might just as well have been Hamburg or Paris or London , or America , as so many other Jews did . |
| 22 | He might just as well have said : ‘ It 's all very well asking for more money for the railways , but if the volume of rail freight were doubled , it would still be only a mere 16 per cent of the rail-and-road total . ’ |
| 23 | He might just as well have stipulated long white trousers . |
| 24 | When he brushed some hair away from her face he might just as well have placed his hand on her most intimate spot . |
| 25 | He might just as well have branded her with the seal of his possession . |
| 26 | ‘ He might just as well have been ! ’ |
| 27 | But he might just as well have been talking to himself . |
| 28 | He might just as well have enticed , ‘ Wo n't you walk into my parlour ? ’ |
| 29 | It could just as well have been the 20th birthday of the Eden Gardens tea urn , and as far as the Indian government is concerned , there is nothing like an international cricket tournament for persuading the electorate that , with polling day just around the corner , Rajiv is the boy to vote for . |
| 30 | No French nation was waiting in 1500 to emerge in the concept of France ; and it could just as well have been Burgundy which assumed that role . |