Example sentences of "[vb mod] as [adv] say " in BNC.

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1 But what is unavoidable may still be undesirable , and one might as well say so .
2 ‘ We might as well say the Rosary now , ’ he announced when he put pencil and paper away , taking out his beads and letting them dangle loudly .
3 ‘ You might as well say take him on the swings in the park .
4 You might as well say you enjoy being crippled .
5 Looking round the table she added , ‘ While we 're on about weddings , Aah might as well say that Aah 'm going ti marry Tobias .
6 As we 're on the subject of complaints , I might as well say that we 've had one from Naomi Marks .
7 C. S. Lewis offered the most daring statement in the final volume of the ‘ Narnia ’ series , The Last Battle ( 1956 ) , in which we come across a young ( dead ) virtuous pagan , Emeth , who explains that all his life he has served Tash and scorned Aslan the Lion — earlier on it has been made clear that Tash is a bloody demon , Aslan , one might as well say , the ‘ Narnian ’ Christ .
8 I agree with you but you , I mean , if , well you might as well say shite !
9 Oh well , you might as well say that !
10 You see that 's the trouble you see every individual is different in the make up of life they are , so some 'd get pregnant by oh you might as well say looking at one another and another one they might perhaps go years and not get pregnant .
11 I might as well say it ; I am fed up with people writing to me and saying : ‘ Do n't touch the Ouija board ; it 's bad for your health ’ . ’
12 You might as well say yes to this , if you 're always going to be around when the machine reboots .
13 Mark might as well say it now .
14 Now I might as well say it here , at this point that Alf Robbins was just another social democratic party member .
15 Thirty one , you might as well say thirty two quid
16 you might as well say three eighty , it 's a hundred and twenty quid more and you could sell the speakers and the deck
17 It could have been different if I had been accepted for the Forces , but this way I mean to make Marion my wife and I hope … well … well ’ — he jerked his head upwards — ‘ I may as well say it , that if I have a son , or for second best , a daughter , to carry on here .
18 But there I was , and thinking — I may as well say it , thinking bad thoughts about my father .
19 We may as well say goodbye now . ’
20 They are , we can as well say , certain conceivable changes in the universe , ways in which the universe might have been different .
21 Or , as we can as well say , Even if any events or conditions logically consistent with a and b had occurred , rather than those which did , if a occurred then b did .
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