Example sentences of "well not [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today she was here , lost in the beauty of the music of love , and Dr Rafaelo might well not have existed . |
| 2 | Thus , pesfull is placed in the group of suffix errors , because a pupil might well not have recognised that the word was peace + ful . |
| 3 | It was Boyle 's contention that if William Harvey had not asked himself about the purpose of valves in the veins , he might well not have discovered the circulation of the blood . |
| 4 | Ferdinando spent the night before departure with her but he might as well not have done . |
| 5 | So if you are lucky you have a person who was not at all interested in what was happening out in front of the group of children miming and doing the actions to a song they may well not have known before . |
| 6 | It lends the infinitive event , in contrast with the -ing form , an aura of " iffiness " which brings to mind the possibility that this event might well not have occurred . |
| 7 | I might as well not have bothered , but then I was too young to know what to do anyway . |
| 8 | He might as well not have bothered . |
| 9 | Nearly half an inch fell this morning , but it may as well not have bothered . |
| 10 | ‘ I may very well not have come in any case , madame . ’ |
| 11 | The debate might as well not have taken place , so far as the further development of both sciences is concerned . |
| 12 | British playwright John Arden ( he of Sergeant Musgrave 's Dance ) accepted the Obie on Henry Livings 's behalf , though , commented Livings , ‘ In his mild way John hinted I might well not have enjoyed the way it was done in New York , but I never argue with box-office returns . ’ |
| 13 | He might just as well not have bothered , for it was there still , it would be there for ever , unless one day they found how to cut memory out of the brain with a scalpel . |