Example sentences of "she might as well [vb infin] " in BNC.

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31 She does n't know what to buy , she might as well buy something useful might n't she ?
32 It took them an hour to convince her that it would be all right to go , that she would not be disloyal to Peter ; but , finally she agreed that she might as well indulge the boy .
33 Chewing on her lip in thought , she finally set off towards the ten-gallon drums , reasoning that she might as well try to find out as much as possible while she was here , and run like hell when the time came .
34 as if pleading helped — she might as well try to appeal to the better nature of a power-crazed tyrant .
35 She might as well try Veronica 's house again , although she was disturbed to find that she was on the same track as hordes of newspaper reporters .
36 She might as well let him get his excuses off his chest .
37 She might as well let Rose have the designs , next season they would be out of date , but the price would have to be negotiated .
38 And , on reflection , she might as well come straight to the point .
39 It was n't until Thursday that it occurred to Loretta that if she was going near Oxford , she might as well call in on Bridget .
40 She might as well have been eating spam .
41 ‘ I 'm not an invalid , ’ she protested , but she might as well have argued with a rock .
42 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 .
43 She might as well have it .
44 She might as well have saved her breath .
45 She might as well have saved her breath .
46 ‘ You are quite mistaken , ’ she said desperately , but she might as well have spared her breath .
47 Below once more , with everything as secure as she could make it , she decided she might as well have an early night .
48 She might as well have addressed her request to the tablecloth .
49 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 .
50 because she might as well have some A levels just in case or whatever , but erm you know I , you know she 's , you know , I can understand that actually , she 's being quiet sensible about it she said there 's nothing else I want to do and I might as well do something that I enjoy , you know , you 've only got one life have n't you when it comes down to it ?
51 Because she might as well have some A levels just in case or whatever .
52 ‘ Well , when a girl 's sufferin' desperate times , she might as well nick something nice , ’ said Dolly .
53 Yeah well she 's got the money there she might as well spend it had n't she ?
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