Example sentences of "might just as well [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | There may be rare instances where a situation can be covered by one meaning but not by the other ; a police investigation might conceivably report that " criminal activity " ( associative use ) " in the southern suburbs includes ostentatious donations to charity in order to cultivate an image of respectability " ; a lawyer might jocularly speak of criminal activity having sharply increased in his legal chambers ( though intuitive awareness of the ambiguity might just as well make him avoid the phrase ) ; in both these cases the associative interpretation , only , is required . |
2 | " In any case you might just as well relieve your mind by talking the matter over . |
3 | She might just as well conserve her energy . |
4 | Th the fire , the those feet are catching in that it 's not being used you might just as well switch it off . |
5 | You might just as well give it to Adolf Hitler frankly . " |
6 | Might just as well bury yourself alive . ’ |
7 | 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 |
8 | I might just as well ask him to drive me to the nearest station . |
9 | We might just as well call it the Non-R RE model . |
10 | 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 . |