Example sentences of "[pers pn] might [adv] as well [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | I might just as well pack up and go if you ca n't even listen to things reasonably ! ’ |
2 | I might just as well clean the gun . |
3 | I might just as well ask him to drive me to the nearest station . |
4 | I might just as well have been Judd . ’ |
5 | 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 . |
6 | She might just as well conserve her energy . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Though she was completely covered she might just as well have been wearing nothing at all . |
10 | She might just as well have stuck a neon sign on her head , inviting him to make love to her . |
11 | She might just as well have saved her breath , because he kissed her anyway . |
12 | She might just as well have been driven to the airport by taxi , Jenna mourned . |
13 | She tried to push him away , but she might just as well have tried to move the Campanile . |
14 | So she may believe that her price is higher than she initially expected because of a relative demand shift in her favour , which she might just as well take advantage of by supplying more output . |
15 | In the meantime , she might just as well take another look at those ledgers and see if she could make any sense of them . |
16 | Something seemed to open or to expand in her brain , releasing a cold voice which she had never heard there before , telling her that if he cheated her she might just as well kill him . |
17 | " In any case you might just as well relieve your mind by talking the matter over . |
18 | Th the fire , the those feet are catching in that it 's not being used you might just as well switch it off . |
19 | ‘ You know perfectly well that I can persuade you , so you might just as well give in now with good grace . ’ |
20 | You might just as well give it to Adolf Hitler frankly . " |
21 | She wrote , ‘ You might just as well throw that poor child on the compost heap . ’ |
22 | 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 . |
23 | You might just as well pick out anything but having done it and taking up , er what Mr mentioned , this question I think it was Mr , about the deficit . |
24 | I mean to my mind you might just as well spend your money on , what are you doing idiot , on a well made piece of furniture today like some of those we 've seen in , in |
25 | You 've been with me for a whole week now and you might just as well have been a girl , or a boy without balls . |
26 | You might just as well have sent him out naked round the privates . |
27 | you might just as well have undercoated and put ordinary gloss on it . |
28 | You might just as well have put the phone down . |
29 | ‘ You might just as well tear those up as well , Inspector , I 'm afraid . ’ |
30 | You might just as well say to a publisher , should you take his advance royalties ! " |