Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb mod] as [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Dad is going to brand me an alcoholic I might as well have the game as well as the name ! ’ |
| 2 | Well if there 's no intention I may as well cancel him altogether . |
| 3 | ‘ No , it means that once you 're caught in those waves you might as well give up . ’ |
| 4 | And he advised Premier John Major : ‘ Once you have accepted the slump in the pound you might as well bring them down more . ’ |
| 5 | If you 're going to take a break it may as well be a clean one . |
| 6 | I suppose you might not care for them , in which case you might as well be miserable at home . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't see you have a great deal of choice , ’ he drawled , ‘ unless of course you wish to walk home — in which case you may as well forget our agreement . |
| 8 | While Julia Roberts , as Tinkerbell , ‘ swallows so many syllables she might as well be chewing gum ’ . |
| 9 | If we 're gon na spend money you might as well go to Littlewoods or |
| 10 | At this point I might as well confess to being what is called in the trade a ‘ megalithomaniac ’ . |
| 11 | It 's good for a direct amp-type sound ; I ca n't crank an amplifier up here that loud , so to get a good sound I might as well put it straight into the desk . ’ |
| 12 | In 1609 or 1610 Larkin painted the only picture which can as yet be linked to documentary evidence : a portrait of Edward Herbert , first Baron Herbert of Cherbury [ q.v. ] , |
| 13 | Indeed if they fail to take the initiative they might as well abandon the people of the area to a grim fate . |
| 14 | If Klepner 's gon na get his job he may as well do the spiel . |
| 15 | Yeah if we 've got some money we might as well spend it . |
| 16 | If he goes on trial we may as well all start looking for other jobs . |
| 17 | and we 'd left it , and not bothered and then he says one day I might as well sling this out it 's no good is it ? |
| 18 | ‘ Not I. You might as well call it Trouble up at t'Mill and have done with it as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 19 | But Molly knew he would say when they got home , ‘ For what I shelled out for the water we might as well have filled the loos up with Chianti . ’ |
| 20 | Because if I 'm going to check out the council elections and things we may as well go together and do our business there and annoy all the people at the council all at once . |
| 21 | CHAMPAGNE BILLECART SALMON ( Oddbins , £16.99 ) : If you 're going to drink the real stuff it might as well be the best . |
| 22 | In some ways I might as well have been in the Outer Hebrides , Now everyone 's got a car it 's difficult to explain how isolated somewhere like Kensal Green used to be in those days . |
| 23 | At this rate she might as well give him a blow-by-blow description of the last time they had shared the bench , and save him the trouble of remembering . |
| 24 | Amy said : 'Look , if you 're not going to help with these envelopes you might as well go and put a new washer on that tap . |
| 25 | ‘ If you 're going to marry a madman you might as well find out what makes him tick ’ |
| 26 | After all , if you 're going to marry a madman you might as well find out what makes him tick . |
| 27 | in fact I feel the price we charge for concessions and youngsters is a giveaway we might as well give them away for nothing . |
| 28 | If you want a half-hearted approach I may as well not start in the first place . ’ |
| 29 | Christopher Robson ( countertenor ) has recently been electrifying audiences with his performances of Arsamenes in Xerxes at the English National Opera , and when he opens his mouth on this recording he may as well be plugging us all into the mains . |
| 30 | Just cos it 's your birthday I might as well give you one I suppose |