Example sentences of "may as well " in BNC.

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1 If you 're going to take a break it may as well be a clean one .
2 May as well live in the present , that 's what I say .
3 They being agreed , one may as well go back to the ‘ finger in the wind ’ !
4 I may as well stick it out to the end .
5 May as well use the lift , ’ said Burden with a trace of self-consciousness .
6 ‘ Since we 've come so far , ’ he said , ‘ we may as well have another chat with Mrs Hatton . ’
7 Come on now , you may as well tell us .
8 ‘ Since I 'm home , ’ she said , ‘ I may as well do my duty .
9 ‘ We may as well start at the top , then . ’
10 Your hair may be well cut , but if you 're a trendy executive and your latest hairdo is just that tiny bit mumsy , you may as well hibernate for a few months .
11 ‘ They may as well call it ‘ Women who do n't wear make-up ’ , ’ she chuckles .
12 Once you lose sight of land , you may as well be in space . ’
13 And the translations are so incredibly liberal , there may as well be no original text at all .
14 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 .
15 If Klepner 's gon na get his job he may as well do the spiel .
16 ‘ We 've had several more since this morning , I may as well tell you . ’
17 May as well go to bed in a drunken stupor after dinner , same as the rest of them .
18 You may as well forget the idea of banning things .
19 Never think that you have blown your exercise schedule so you may as well not bother going back to it .
20 Australia may as well have been on another planet to post war Britain .
21 We may as well find out .
22 Infuriating it may be , but you may as well shrug your shoulders as the locals do and accept that these things are part and parcel of travel overseas .
23 May as well use it I thought .
24 One had to be guided by the judgement of ‘ the true ladies and gentlemen ’ , argued the Society , or else ‘ we may as well adopt the proprieties of Bolshevik Russia ’ .
25 ‘ Well , since everyone 's giving speeches , I may as well take a turn , ’ he said , and it was at once apparent from his voice that he had had a good deal to drink .
26 The ‘ new conservatives ’ have made it worse by arguing , incorrectly as it happens , that since the children of the élite for the most part ( and for both genetic and environmental reasons ) become the élite , then the elaborate process of selection may as well be shortened and a plain hereditary principle reintroduced .
27 If you are not using the swimfeeder as it should be used then you may as well tackle up with a link-leger and feed by hand .
28 Obviously , you need a heavy bomb to cast the distance , so you may as well use bolt-rig tactics that will take a great deal of sag out of that great length of line when you clip up to the rod .
29 Christopher Robson ( countertenor ) has recently been electrifying audiences with his performances of Arsamenes in Xerxes at the English National Opera , and when he opens his mouth on this recording he may as well be plugging us all into the mains .
30 You may as well sleep under a hedge or in a doorway , and get arrested for being a vagrant , and get put in jail where you 'll be treated like muck but at any rate it 'll be warm and you 'll be made to have a bath .
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