Example sentences of "[pron] might as [adv] be " in BNC.
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1 | If I avoid it , I might as well be on a tourist bus , shielded from Tibet and from myself . |
2 | ‘ You and I might as well be getting back to Zimmerman 's , Richter , ’ said Moreau as they shuffled out into the street . |
3 | I might as well be desired to drive twenty foxes to market . |
4 | And quite frankly when we are in bed , I might as well be anybody . |
5 | ‘ I might as well be dead , I might , ’ said Dolly . |
6 | Well , time was travelling anyway , and I thought I might as well be moving on . |
7 | Though the way some people treat this place , I might as well be running … ’ |
8 | If I 'm a priest , I might as well be a gallant one . |
9 | I might as well be |
10 | And I thinks to myself well I might as well be going out earning money if they 're not in bed . |
11 | I might as well be like a |
12 | But Elaine says that despite this help , she might as well be in an institution . |
13 | She might as well be pumping a bicycle ! ’ |
14 | While Julia Roberts , as Tinkerbell , ‘ swallows so many syllables she might as well be chewing gum ’ . |
15 | She might as well be naked . |
16 | ‘ She might as well be stark naked ! ’ the Countess said . |
17 | He 's married to someone so socially and culturally removed from him she might as well be a foreigner . ’ |
18 | She might as well be wearing a notice . |
19 | But within five minutes of her putting a foot on the pavement outside the large building she 'd found that she might as well be in a hot and steamy sauna bath . |
20 | Clad in an old black leotard and leggings , now fairly well daubed with paint , and with her mane of hair hidden beneath a scarlet bandana , she did n't exactly look like a decorator , she realised with a giggle as she caught sight of her own reflection in the hall mirror on the way to the kitchen , but she 'd discovered at an early stage of the game just how much bending , stretching and crouching was involved and so had decided she might as well be comfortable while she did it . |
21 | No , I 'll have to ring our Carl then , see if he can shift it , I mean she might as well be laid down here watching telly as upstairs laid in bed uncomfortable , you know yeah |
22 | She might as well be a . |
23 | You might as well be on Mars . ’ |
24 | The point is that if you just ring America , you might as well be from outer Albania for all they care . |
25 | ‘ If you 're in the top 10 and let go even for an instant then you might as well be 200 , ’ she says . |
26 | I suppose you might not care for them , in which case you might as well be miserable at home . |
27 | I mean you might as well be doing art , physics and chemistry , than biology , physics and chemistry . |
28 | And you might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb , as doubtless they say on the Darlington and Stockton Times . |
29 | yeah he looked a bit bad but if you 're off for one you might as well be off for two ai n't ya ? |
30 | If one had to worry about one 's actions in respect of other people 's ideas , one might as well be buried alive in an ant heap or married to an ambitious violinist . |