Example sentences of "might just as well [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Though she was completely covered she might just as well have been wearing nothing at all . |
| 32 | Mind you , he paid , I 'll say that for him , but it might just as well have been her — the money was thrown down the drain all the same ! " |
| 33 | They happened to end up in Cork but it might just as well have been Hamburg or Paris or London , or America , as so many other Jews did . |
| 34 | I might just as well have been Judd . ’ |
| 35 | ‘ They might just as well have done , ’ she said despairingly . |
| 36 | They looked phoney , but only because they looked new ; once they had cracked and weathered and slumped a little , nobody would ever credit that they might just as well have been built as concrete and glass shoe-boxes . |
| 37 | When he brushed some hair away from her face he might just as well have placed his hand on her most intimate spot . |
| 38 | She might just as well have stuck a neon sign on her head , inviting him to make love to her . |
| 39 | He might just as well have branded her with the seal of his possession . |
| 40 | She might just as well have saved her breath , because he kissed her anyway . |
| 41 | She might just as well have been driven to the airport by taxi , Jenna mourned . |
| 42 | ‘ He might just as well have been ! ’ |
| 43 | But he might just as well have been talking to himself . |
| 44 | And the Beau Nash Room might just as well have been their luxury coach : twenty-three of them only for the minute , with Eddie Stratton now being held in custody by the New York Police , distanced by only a few yards , as it happened , from the mortal remains of his former wife ; and with Sam and Vera Kronquist , one of the three married couples originally listed on the tour , still in their room on the second floor of the hotel — Sam watching a mid-morning cartoon on ITV , and Vera , fully dressed , lying back lazily against the pillows of their double bed , reading the previous February 's issue of Country Life . |
| 45 | He might just as well have enticed , ‘ Wo n't you walk into my parlour ? ’ |
| 46 | She tried to push him away , but she might just as well have tried to move the Campanile . |
| 47 | So I 've , I I did some rice and ha had it , but might just as well have thrown it away . |
| 48 | you might just as well have undercoated and put ordinary gloss on it . |
| 49 | You might just as well have put the phone down . |
| 50 | We might just as well say that the Holocaust was God punishing the Jews ! |
| 51 | You might just as well say to a publisher , should you take his advance royalties ! " |
| 52 | Looking at the proportional evidence from the Niemecz organs , one might just as well say that Beethoven 's Symphony no.1 Menuetto had been ‘ Haydnized ’ and one could say so the more properly chronologically , since Haydn was the earlier of the two composers to start describing quick tempos for his minuets . |
| 53 | I might just as well clean the gun . |
| 54 | I might just as well pack up and go if you ca n't even listen to things reasonably ! ’ |
| 55 | I mean to my mind you might just as well spend your money on , what are you doing idiot , on a well made piece of furniture today like some of those we 've seen in , in |
| 56 | ‘ You might just as well tear those up as well , Inspector , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 57 | So she may believe that her price is higher than she initially expected because of a relative demand shift in her favour , which she might just as well take advantage of by supplying more output . |
| 58 | In the meantime , she might just as well take another look at those ledgers and see if she could make any sense of them . |
| 59 | In the other … you might just as well try to go to sleep when your feet are cold or you want to spend a penny , or you 're hungry for a special kind of food you have n't got . |
| 60 | The truth of the matter is this of course , that Mr might just as well put here any indirect tax , because that 's what it 's about . |