Example sentences of "[modal v] just as well [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The £40,000 with of high technology next to it may just as well have come from another world as another country . |
| 2 | You might just as well have sent him out naked round the privates . |
| 3 | When he brushed some hair away from her face he might just as well have placed his hand on her most intimate spot . |
| 4 | He might just as well have stipulated long white trousers . |
| 5 | When they eventually got to Paris , they found that they might just as well have stopped and had a meal in Hanover . |
| 6 | As for the idealistic school , they might just as well have gone to North Wales or Derbyshire . |
| 7 | He might just as well have branded her with the seal of his possession . |
| 8 | She might just as well have saved her breath , because he kissed her anyway . |
| 9 | Time , these past 30 years , might just as well have stood still . |
| 10 | She did n't actually say , ‘ Please hurry up , oh please hurry up , ’ but she might just as well have done : her mouth twitched as if she were muttering it inwardly , her eyes kept darting to the clock on the mantelpiece and there were red , nervous spots on her cheeks . |
| 11 | ‘ They might just as well have done , ’ she said despairingly . |
| 12 | Glen Webbe , of international fame and a target for League clubs , might just as well have stayed home decorating his Christmas tree for what he was called on to do . |
| 13 | Wednesday 's match marked the Dutch football federation 's centenary , although considering the side Holland were forced to field , Queen Beatrix might just as well have stayed at home and sent the centenarians a congratulatory telegram . |
| 14 | He might just as well have said : ‘ It 's all very well asking for more money for the railways , but if the volume of rail freight were doubled , it would still be only a mere 16 per cent of the rail-and-road total . ’ |
| 15 | He might just as well have enticed , ‘ Wo n't you walk into my parlour ? ’ |
| 16 | She tried to push him away , but she might just as well have tried to move the Campanile . |
| 17 | Those who sold their diesels after 50,000 miles or so might just as well have bought a petrol vehicle . |
| 18 | So I 've , I I did some rice and ha had it , but might just as well have thrown it away . |
| 19 | You might just as well have put the phone down . |
| 20 | Suppose he suggests that the Incarnation might just as well have taken a female as a male form , and the Second Person of the Trinity be as well called the Daughter as the Son … . |
| 21 | She might just as well have stuck a neon sign on her head , inviting him to make love to her . |
| 22 | But surely it is possible that the women 's assessments might just as well have reflected their awareness of sex stereotypes and their consequent desire to fulfil ‘ normal ’ expectations that women talk ‘ better ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | otherwise it might just as well get chucked out might n't it ? |
| 25 | The fact that he was an outstanding , if not completely graceful athlete , that he played anything with a racquet commendably well — I remember battling him at tennis in the oppressive heat of Guaruja to an 8–8 deadlock before we both gave up to avoid heat prostration — that he is a better than average golfer and could just as well have played football or cricket and enjoyed all sports , made him less exclusively obsessive about racing . |
| 26 | In the context of what Canada achieved — solid victories over Fiji and Romania , a six-point loss to France in a game that most Canadians feel could just as well have provided another win , and , finally , defeat by New Zealand and a heart-stirring two-try finish — Birtwell and his squad have good reason to be satisfied . |