Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They may as well call it ‘ Women who do n't wear make-up ’ , ’ she chuckles . |
| 2 | ‘ They may as well give us justice now and exonerate these men from this horrific crime . ’ |
| 3 | They may as well have been a small part of a photograph album gathering dust in the depth of someone 's attic . |
| 4 | they do n't get the full amount now they may as well to try again after April because |
| 5 | Secondly , some are concerned that they can not go on plundering our planet without costs escalating , and thirdly others realize that international laws are here to stay , so they may as well accept them . |
| 6 | So always treat those in exactly the same way as you would a normal roundabout , so that you 're coming up and always assuming that people should give way etcetera in the manner in which they should unless the roundabout directs otherwise . |
| 7 | Cos they 're walking through the area and they 'll if they 've had a few pints , Let's go down Oh we 'll walk through Flats and we 'll smash one or two lights up , smash one or two windows . |
| 8 | This means that newcomers to the union would have confidence about using it , and not feel so anxious about it as a new and untried form of credit as they might if it was instead an advertised credit institution . |
| 9 | The government put this here after ‘ Forty-six because they wanted one spot of safety in a wilderness of hatred , and because they thought they might as well get some good of this country once they 'd ruined it . |
| 10 | ‘ Having committed one offence and been given a criminal recordfor innocent hacking , they may feel that they might as well get in a bit deeper . ’ |
| 11 | Nevertheless , when Fox made the preposterous statement that ‘ This is simply shocking , they might as well make me professor of Poetry , ’ Lewis responded , ‘ Well , we will . ’ |
| 12 | As a result , the British can write novels and plays , even produce an occasional world-class painter but , when it comes to cinema , they might as well forget it . |
| 13 | They might as well have a badge on them saying Steal Me in big black letters . |
| 14 | And if they had to brave that to make a phone call , they might as well press on for home . |
| 15 | They reason that they might as well make the same effort journeying to meet the other people in person . |
| 16 | If they keep you , they might as well keep me . |
| 17 | ‘ They have a great technique , but it 's all too smooth and almost jazz-like ; they might as well be performing in a Holiday Inn lounge or something ! |
| 18 | ‘ If they are planning any more killings ( or bombings or God knows what ) they might as well wait until the English cricketers are in town . |
| 19 | The patent for the muon work came to nothing , but then Rafelski suggested that , seeing as the attorney was present , they might as well get him to notarise the logbook in case the discussion should one day prove seminal . |
| 20 | Neighbour Maureen Clark agreed : ‘ They might as well be in our back gardens . |
| 21 | For those of us for whom gunkholing is a passion , they might as well add ‘ compelling , ’ ‘ beautiful , ’ or ‘ breathtaking . ’ |
| 22 | They might as well all resign and hand the club over to the TV bosses . ’ |
| 23 | Being only marginally better looking than The Farm does n't excuse instant capitulation when it comes to performing , and tonight , apart from Andy 's caged pussycat prowling , mostly lost in dry ice , they might as well have pulled the curtains . |
| 24 | They might as well have had a rope round his ankle . |
| 25 | Managers and proprietors soon realized that if halls were to be half full they might as well be totally full and so every ingenious method was used to maximize attendance . |
| 26 | They might as well have assaulted a wall of blades with their bare hands . |
| 27 | Are the forces of the mightiest military power on earth to be deployed so sparingly that they might as well be shrunk much more than most imagine ? |
| 28 | Without the threat of legislation ( which Sir Normal Fowler reportedly used to obtain the ban on cinema advertising ) , the Government has no cards ; if they are willing to threaten it , they might as well use it . |
| 29 | They might as well pull the trigger or plant the Semtex themselves , they 're just as responsible for the violence as the paramilitaries ’ . |
| 30 | To their dismay they see quantification invading their own subject : they might as well have become physicists or engineers if English literature , Greek history and even New Testament theology now offer no escape from those wretched numbers . |