Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [vb mod] just as well " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel I 've lost everything ; that I may just as well go home . ’ |
| 2 | My mother and my best friend , both of whom believed that I could just as well have a bath at home , came with me . |
| 3 | She looked so competent and self-assured , so hard , so distant from his own thought and feeling that she might just as well have been a stranger , passing by without a glance in the street . |
| 4 | For the past five days now she had been living somewhere on cloud nine , and had decided that she might just as well set up home there , as it was such a wonderful place to be . |
| 5 | Suppose he says that we might just as well pray to ‘ Our Mother which art in Heaven ’ … . |
| 6 | In other words , the most likely occasions for associative use of the word to qualify what is in fact a performance from the professional acrobat 's repertoire — as when we are confronted by the sight of a lady standing on a man 's shoulders and juggling with Indian clubs — would be occasions when it is very likely that we can just as well describe the actions as acrobatic in their own right ; and on the other hand , ascriptive use of the word is likely to be rather rare except , precisely , in those circumstances where professional acrobats form part of the context , so that an associative use would be equally justified . |
| 7 | When they eventually got to Paris , they found that they might just as well have stopped and had a meal in Hanover . |
| 8 | They looked phoney , but only because they looked new ; once they had cracked and weathered and slumped a little , nobody would ever credit that they might just as well have been built as concrete and glass shoe-boxes . |