Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [vb mod] as [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The station cafe was still open so I decided that I might as well go in there . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's just that I might as well have stayed in the sitting-room , that 's all . ’ |
| 3 | I gave him my breath until I was dizzy myself and I still would n't accept it was all useless , that I might as well stop . |
| 4 | If I am to change it I feel that I might as well put a larger engine in it , could you please advise me what would be the best petrol engine and would I have to convert it to 12 volt ; which I do n't really want to do . |
| 5 | BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE has left the restaurant , I decide that I might as well leave too . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Wo , I mean one is a start but erm , in that I may as well still got a half a dozen off the school . |
| 8 | Enslaved by the mindless dullness of fixed routine , Shirley has taken literally the realisation that she may as well talk to the wall . |
| 9 | Catherine was so quiet that she might as well not have been in the room and it occurred to him that he must train her to make some unobtrusive signal to him when she thought he was missing something . |
| 10 | I thought she 'd argue that she might as well go somewhere she 'd always wanted to visit . ’ |
| 11 | It took them an hour to convince her that it would be all right to go , that she would not be disloyal to Peter ; but , finally she agreed that she might as well indulge the boy . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She forgot to call the apartment again , and decided by two in the morning that she might as well stay at the clinic for what was left of the night . |
| 14 | Chewing on her lip in thought , she finally set off towards the ten-gallon drums , reasoning that she might as well try to find out as much as possible while she was here , and run like hell when the time came . |
| 15 | Watching the other girl jog into the distance , Lindsey hesitated fractionally before deciding that she might as well go for a swim anyway . |
| 16 | But within five minutes of her putting a foot on the pavement outside the large building she 'd found that she might as well be in a hot and steamy sauna bath . |
| 17 | The American troupe were refreshingly different , innovative , but Virginia reflected afterwards that she might as well have been watching a film with no pictures , in a language she did n't understand , such was her lack of concentration on the details of that evening . |
| 18 | The Town Moor draw 's favours are so unpredictable that you may as well stick to choosing a horse for its name alone . |
| 19 | ‘ There was a time when I slightly resented that , but I realise now that you may as well sit back and enjoy it . |
| 20 | The Old Testament prophet Jeremiah was right when he said of an unlikely event that you might as well expect a leopard to change its spots . |
| 21 | You might then find that having gone to the trouble of preparing a good speech and a joke just in case , you decide that you might as well give the speech anyway ! |
| 22 | The dividing line between the pro-cases and the contra-cases is so blurred and ill defined that you might as well toss a coin to decide it . |
| 23 | As explained before , this means that one might as well cut the big bang , and any events before it , out of the theory , because they can have no effect on what we observe . |
| 24 | There is already a feeling in some people 's minds that in athletics , as in so many other aspects of life , what can be done with the human body will be done , and that we might as well let them get on with it . |
| 25 | It took George several hours to get used to the fact that I was deceitful and irresponsible , but eventually he agreed that we might as well get as good a price as we could — £10 , he thought , if they had n't spotted the broken springs . |
| 26 | ‘ Having committed one offence and been given a criminal recordfor innocent hacking , they may feel that they might as well get in a bit deeper . ’ |
| 27 | They reason that they might as well make the same effort journeying to meet the other people in person . |
| 28 | Are the forces of the mightiest military power on earth to be deployed so sparingly that they might as well be shrunk much more than most imagine ? |
| 29 | Some observers reckon Kodak 's business will be so poor in the wake of its lay-offs that it might as well depart Japan altogether . |
| 30 | I remember thinking at the time that the two men were father-figures in more than one sense , and that it might as well have been Father Eliot as Father D'Arcy . |