Example sentences of "[pers pn] might just 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 ! "
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