Example sentences of "[pers pn] might as well have " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's just that I might as well have stayed in the sitting-room , that 's all . ’ |
| 3 | I might as well have grown asparagus in the time . ’ ’ |
| 4 | The copy began no less engagingly : ‘ The doctor said I might as well have it done ’ , said I , over meatballs and rice around the family table . ’ |
| 5 | If Dad is going to brand me an alcoholic I might as well have the game as well as the name ! ’ |
| 6 | If I pulled out he would probably do me over for being a chicken , but if I competed and beat him ( unlikely but not impossible ) … well , I might as well have booked my hospital bed then and there . |
| 7 | I might as well have suggested that Spock was a paedophile . |
| 8 | I asked , but I might as well have saved my breath because the plane suddenly climbed , banked , then began descending fast towards the island again . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought I might as well have a bit of a motoring holiday at the same time , ’ he explains . |
| 10 | ‘ I did n't just wake up one morning and say ‘ Oh gee , I ca n't get in for a facial — I might as well have a baby ’ . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I might as well have it . |
| 12 | ‘ I might as well have lobotomised the patients . |
| 13 | ‘ I might as well have — I do n't know the answer . |
| 14 | While we 're out here , I might as well have a look at the sea . ’ |
| 15 | I might as well have had that shower , she thought drily ; at least I would have felt a hundred times more human . |
| 16 | I might as well have pleaded aloud with him to make love to me , she thought , I wanted him so much ! |
| 17 | Now I 'm here , she told herself , I might as well have a look round . |
| 18 | Jamie and the girl were inches away from me , holding me by an arm each , being bumped into frequently , but my drunkenness had now got to such a state — as the last two quickly consumed pints and an accompanying whisky caught up with my racing bloodstream — that I might as well have been on another planet for all the hope I had of making them understand what I wanted . |
| 19 | Then I re-thought about it and thought oh , I might as well have a go . |
| 20 | I might as well have had the game as well as the name . ’ |
| 21 | well in that case then I might as well have a tested one and be stingy with it , erm oh where 's sage and onion , oh here we are , sage and onion Right quickly go and find nanny again cos we seem to have lost |
| 22 | She might as well have been eating spam . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm not an invalid , ’ she protested , but she might as well have argued with a rock . |
| 24 | The truth was that she would doze now and then — ten minutes here , twenty there ; but her dreams were so vivid and so close to her conscious fears that she might as well have been awake . |
| 25 | She might as well have it . |
| 26 | She might as well have saved her breath . |
| 27 | She might as well have saved her breath . |
| 28 | ‘ You are quite mistaken , ’ she said desperately , but she might as well have spared her breath . |
| 29 | Below once more , with everything as secure as she could make it , she decided she might as well have an early night . |
| 30 | She might as well have addressed her request to the tablecloth . |