Example sentences of "[vb mod] [conj] [adv] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The mothers 'll only be skivvies anywhere they get billeted , so I might as well choose my own place . |
| 2 | If that 's how it is to be here the BBC might as well change its motto to ’ Anything for a quiet life ’ . |
| 3 | And if that happened you might as well hide your head in the hedge . |
| 4 | If ever this man needed to deceive , she thought , dismayed , he might as well bare his neck for the axe , for he could not save himself . |
| 5 | Since your father 's company is the only reason you 're deigning to associate with riff-raff like me , you might as well grab your chances while you can . ’ |
| 6 | The service is something special and I might as well spend my money that way as any other . |
| 7 | My head 's buzzing with it so you might as well share my tinnitus . |
| 8 | Call her Marge , you might as well call her butter and go the whole hog might n't you really ? |
| 9 | She might as well cut her losses and take off for Phobos or Longevity , see if there was anything there , see if there was anyone that had n't flown down for carnival . |
| 10 | Pesaro said , ‘ You might as well have your night 's rest . |
| 11 | Might as well have your pension . |
| 12 | I might as well take your details . ’ |
| 13 | We might as well take our time and make quite sure where we 'd like to have them . |
| 14 | Others said that their driving was risky because friends and , to a lesser extent , the public , police and insurance companies labelled him as ‘ high risk ’ and charged him a high premium , he might as well get his money 's worth . |
| 15 | Might as well get our money 's worth out of the car too . ’ |
| 16 | If you were going to get shouted at , you might as well get your money 's worth . |
| 17 | You might as well get your |
| 18 | ‘ To protect the pitch , we keep off the grass all week , so we might as well play our football on it , ’ says O'Neill in a resounding echo of Clough 's philosophy . |
| 19 | If you have to buy a customer with lavish entertainment , you might as well buy your way out of every problem . |
| 20 | But it might as well save its money if it is merely going to flow out of the country into the pockets and profits of foreign firms . |
| 21 | ‘ You might as well save your breath , ’ they had said . |
| 22 | ‘ And , now that you 've got what you wanted , you might as well pack your bags and leave . ’ |
| 23 | This is inappropriate for a number of reasons : first , because you are primarily assessed on relative quality ( " good for a second-year dissertation " ) rather than absolute quality ; second , because there is no point in simply rewriting someone else 's ideas ( you might as well submit their original book or article instead ) ; and third , because it underestimates the possibilities of disagreement , adaptation and development which exist in all areas of the field . |
| 24 | And also can you put Rebecca 's tracksuit on cos she 's got quite a grubby frock on , so you might as well put her jogsuit on as well . |
| 25 | I 've got Marc Bolan who wants to record day and night and is keen to go , and I might as well put my energies into him because you really do n't want to work very hard . ’ |
| 26 | Before turning to these questions , though , I 'd like to get some reactions to the current situation , and I might as well put my first question to Jossom . |
| 27 | You might as well use me paint . |
| 28 | Might as well write my letters . |
| 29 | At first sight this looks like an uninteresting stipulation about how to use the word ‘ fact ’ — uninteresting because the anti-materialist could as well state his case using some such term as ‘ feature ’ or ‘ aspect ’ , and it is difficult to see how , once having allowed that there is something called ‘ what it is like to see ’ which one only learns by seeing , one could refuse to describe this as a feature or aspect of mental life . |
| 30 | Radio 5 and Manchester Of The Day may as well move their studios to Old Trafford . |