Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [conj] well [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aunt Christine Smith stormed : ‘ He might as well have run over a dog . ’ |
| 2 | Franks says Glynn died between nine and one , he might as well have said last night sometime . |
| 3 | He might as well have said , Do n't bother with the rest . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | He might as well have descended on the Palace , announcing that he had come for a stay . |
| 6 | He might as well have saved his breath — a sea of green benches confronted the Ulster members . |
| 7 | He might as well have picked a family at random out of the telephone book and stayed with them . |
| 8 | He might as well have recited a passage from a Navy field manual . |
| 9 | WHEN Saul Bellow wrote of America as the place where the ‘ modern action ’ is , he might as well have included the whole continent : Central and South America , with their chaotic flux of civil wars , bloody massacres , assassinations , coups and putsches , are about as modern as the action gets . |
| 10 | He might as well have knocked all the breath out of her body . |
| 11 | He might as well have tried to hit a flitting moonshadow . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |