Example sentences of "we [modal v] [subord] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , if you 're ready , we may as well leave . |
| 2 | Eventually , Terry said , ‘ Well , I guess John 's right , we may as well carry on , ’ and ate a biscuit . |
| 3 | We may as well sit down and begin with sorting out what we can afford . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Now we have lost the horses we may as well go back by the paths . ’ |
| 5 | If we can not win that support , we may as well go out of business , and it is our duty now at all events to make the best of the situation which has arisen and to see that everything is done to make our Party what Disraeli called it — and what , if it is to have any existence , It must be — a really national party . |
| 6 | Because if I 'm going to check out the council elections and things we may as well go together and do our business there and annoy all the people at the council all at once . |
| 7 | So We will wait for Andrew to come up with his amendments and therefore we may as well go through the rest of the agenda . |
| 8 | Not that there 's a great deal of point , Kathleen thought to herself , but we may as well go through the motions . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm sure you are , but , seeing that the sergeant is watching , we may as well finish this off properly for his benefit . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We may as well start at the top , then . ’ |
| 11 | We could n't find a taxi so we thought well we may as well start walking . |
| 12 | If that is the case , we may as well throw all our debates and the report out of the window . |
| 13 | " Since our friends are n't here to push us , " said Bigwig , " we may as well make sure the place is n't crawling with stoats and owls before we go out . " |
| 14 | We may as well make a day of it , then start out early tomorrow . ’ |
| 15 | Then we may as well do it . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's obvious nobody 's going anywhere tonight , so we may as well play out the charade of being rational people . |
| 17 | There is in fact a detailed expression of Plan B , which we may as well call Plan C. It was put out earlier this week as a joint reconstruction programme for LA by the Bloods and Crips , the LA gangs whose truce in fact began before the riots began . |
| 18 | Mind you we may as well call the Leeds team ‘ anonymity-r-us ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ We may as well call it a day now , though . |
| 20 | The danger with this was that the longer it went on the more likely it became that both players and fans would get their priorities wrong , so that the feeling of ‘ we may as well concentrate on what we 're good at and not bother too much about Tests ’ would become steadily more predominant . |
| 21 | Yeah , quick f if a the end of the day it 's a quick fix we may as well take somebody we 've got |
| 22 | So we thought we may as well take it . |
| 23 | We can only rely on each other , and we may as well get one thing straight here and now , Dr Blake . |
| 24 | We may as well get cracking with research might n't we ? |
| 25 | The first one we may as well get going now . |
| 26 | Of course the field of view is 3-dimensional , so in principle we need only state three of these four coordinates , but there is no point in discarding information and so we may as well keep them all . |
| 27 | We sha n't be able to do a thorough coverage , I know , but it 's a relatively small area , and we may as well keep it under what control we can manage between us . |
| 28 | I mean if we 're gon na be speaking to him we may as well ask whether |
| 29 | ‘ Since we 've come so far , ’ he said , ‘ we may as well have another chat with Mrs Hatton . ’ |
| 30 | Well we may as well have got that money and thrown it down the toilet ! |