Example sentences of "[pers pn] might [conj] [adv] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some ways I might as well have been in the Outer Hebrides , Now everyone 's got a car it 's difficult to explain how isolated somewhere like Kensal Green used to be in those days . |
| 2 | Jamie and the girl were inches away from me , holding me by an arm each , being bumped into frequently , but my drunkenness had now got to such a state — as the last two quickly consumed pints and an accompanying whisky caught up with my racing bloodstream — that I might as well have been on another planet for all the hope I had of making them understand what I wanted . |
| 3 | She might as well have been eating spam . |
| 4 | The truth was that she would doze now and then — ten minutes here , twenty there ; but her dreams were so vivid and so close to her conscious fears that she might as well have been awake . |
| 5 | The American troupe were refreshingly different , innovative , but Virginia reflected afterwards that she might as well have been watching a film with no pictures , in a language she did n't understand , such was her lack of concentration on the details of that evening . |
| 6 | A furious magistrate told Terrance Long : ‘ You might as well have been driving a bomb ! ’ |
| 7 | You might as well have been a carpet |
| 8 | He was only a few miles away but for him it might as well have been a million miles . |
| 9 | I could not make out where they were going , and made several inquiries without getting any answers save in Gaelic ; it might as well have been Hindostani . |
| 10 | Although the conference was just up the road in Edinburgh this time , it might as well have been in Timbuktu for all the relevance it held for must of us . |
| 11 | Gingerly he reached out to touch it ; it might as well have been a physical part of his wife 's anatomy , like an ear or a finger . |
| 12 | It might as well have been the last rites . |
| 13 | I remember thinking at the time that the two men were father-figures in more than one sense , and that it might as well have been Father Eliot as Father D'Arcy . |
| 14 | It might as well have been ten . |
| 15 | But it might as well have been a million miles away . |
| 16 | It did n't really matter , their expressions seemed to say , he might as well have been a short-order cook or a deep-sea diver or a male prostitute . |
| 17 | He might as well have been blowing a dog whistle for all we heard of his wasted energy . |
| 18 | His tone of voice was so bland that he might as well have been asking my opinion of Wavebreaker 's sea-keeping qualities . |
| 19 | Dougal was wearing three jerseys and Celia 's duffel coat , but as far as the wind was concerned he might as well have been naked . |
| 20 | He might as well have been devising a new war game . |