Example sentences of "you [vb mod] as " in BNC.

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1 Come on now , you may as well tell us .
2 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 .
3 Once you lose sight of land , you may as well be in space . ’
4 You may as well forget the idea of banning things .
5 Never think that you have blown your exercise schedule so you may as well not bother going back to it .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 A question of : you may as well have it , for ‘ it 's on the table ’ .
11 You may as well ask us to guarantee world peace , ’ said record company EMI 's Louise Bagshawe .
12 ‘ Well , you may as well come on in now you 're here . ’
13 If you 're an artist preoccupied with what people think , you may as well give up . ’
14 But look up once from that paper , get up from the table to make coffee or stir the fire , even just raise your head to look at the view outside the window , and you may as well give up until tomorrow .
15 In ‘ The logic of Waco ’ ( April 24th ) you state ‘ If a man has anti-tank weapons , you may as well bring in tanks . ’
16 Similarly , there is no point in heaving away at a recalcitrant waste pipe if you intend to replace it , so you may as well cut through it a short distance from the wall with a hacksaw .
17 You may as well just put the record on .
18 You may as well cut costs .
19 I am very much displeased with the freedoms you have taken with my name , and you may as well have real cause to take these freedoms with me .
20 You may as well .
21 You may as well start again from the beginning , ’ Schaffer said .
22 You may as well go home .
23 You may as well take it away with you .
24 You may as well stay outside , there 's an awful crowd in there . ’
25 ‘ Very well , you are here and you may as well stay . ’
26 And once they 're all sticking out , dead and scaly , they 're redundant anyway , so you may as well trim it all down .
27 It 's no excuse , but you may as well know anyway : in Rex 's case , paralysis below the waist really does mean what it says . ’
28 ‘ You were good to the old thing during her lifetime , ’ he said , ‘ so you may as well trot along .
29 ‘ I do n't see you have a great deal of choice , ’ he drawled , ‘ unless of course you wish to walk home — in which case you may as well forget our agreement .
30 You may as well sit down . ’
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