Example sentences of "might as [adv] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | We might as when does it close at ? |
2 | He needed someone to throw him a lifeline and I decided it might as well be me . |
3 | Besides , I did n't think I could now save enough to make a significant difference to my standard of living when I retired , so I decided I might as well enjoy it while I had the chance . |
4 | The station cafe was still open so I decided that I might as well go in there . |
5 | I do n't think I 'll get much sleep tonight anyway so I might as well save it for food or something . ’ |
6 | She might as well have been eating spam . |
7 | Anything less and we might as well not do it at all . |
8 | We might as well be praying ! ’ |
9 | If they kept to themselves , the whole northern end of the area might as well be written off . |
10 | So : up there they are with us , some of them ; but here we might as well be among foreigners . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | On the tragedy and the hilarity of being in an uncomfortable place : Yasser Arafat jokes that he lives in an aeroplane because being made homeless , he might as well live in the air . |
13 | Some people even leave notes on the front door for a delivery man — you might as well put an invitation in the front garden . |
14 | He might as well ask the reader to believe in those supremely credible terrorized musicians scraping and blowing through the small hours . |
15 | But what is unavoidable may still be undesirable , and one might as well say so . |
16 | However , the poem that opens the volume , ‘ Ego Dominus Tuus ’ , is in the form of an inconclusive dialogue between two persons ‘ Hic ’ and ‘ Ille ’ , who it is generally agreed might as well be named at certain points as ‘ Ez ’ and ‘ Willie ’ . |
17 | If this is so , then it seems that for ‘ the art one serves ’ one might as well read : the culture one serves , the historical period one serves , even the society one serves ( perhaps an international society ) . |
18 | But Elaine says that despite this help , she might as well be in an institution . |
19 | WHEN Saul Bellow wrote of America as the place where the ‘ modern action ’ is , he might as well have included the whole continent : Central and South America , with their chaotic flux of civil wars , bloody massacres , assassinations , coups and putsches , are about as modern as the action gets . |
20 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
21 | Carr drove home fundamental points , but said nothing about the actual working practices of historians , and , in his inspirational advocacy of a new kind of socialist history , left students with the impression that the solid , source-based stuff which formed their staple diet might as well be cast into the dustbin . |
22 | In some ways I might as well have been in the Outer Hebrides , Now everyone 's got a car it 's difficult to explain how isolated somewhere like Kensal Green used to be in those days . |
23 | If you 're administering , you might as well administer something that is new and challenging rather than doing something I had been doing all my life . |
24 | You might as well wait yourself to see if there 's anything for the house . ’ |
25 | ‘ We might as well go with you so , ’ Moran said and Rose got up eagerly . |
26 | ‘ But he might as well have this before getting up . ’ |
27 | ‘ We might as well say the Rosary now , ’ he announced when he put pencil and paper away , taking out his beads and letting them dangle loudly . |
28 | There had been no real objective , except a vague idea that if conditions were good Hvannadalshnúkur might as well be climbed . |
29 | Besides , they cost so much , you might as well get some fun out of them . |
30 | You might as well enjoy it . ’ |