Example sentences of "may as well [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ May as well sit in the garden , ’ said Constance , ‘ breathe in the traffic fumes . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We may as well start at the top , then . ’ |
| 3 | Enslaved by the mindless dullness of fixed routine , Shirley has taken literally the realisation that she may as well talk to the wall . |
| 4 | Right , and this is this little bit of it , now , made them come back to us and say , well but yes , that 's not enough on its own , or that 's too much on its own , or whatever , or there is no hope , you may as well forget about this because we 've already done the study , or somebody in Japan 's already written off , whatever , but from this point in time , let us , as the sales company , get the information together as it relates to . |
| 5 | You may as well sleep under a hedge or in a doorway , and get arrested for being a vagrant , and get put in jail where you 'll be treated like muck but at any rate it 'll be warm and you 'll be made to have a bath . |
| 6 | May as well go to bed in a drunken stupor after dinner , same as the rest of them . |
| 7 | May as well go to bed now . ’ |
| 8 | So We will wait for Andrew to come up with his amendments and therefore we may as well go through the rest of the agenda . |
| 9 | Not that there 's a great deal of point , Kathleen thought to herself , but we may as well go through the motions . |
| 10 | Okay may as well go for it I suppose . |
| 11 | Your hair may be well cut , but if you 're a trendy executive and your latest hairdo is just that tiny bit mumsy , you may as well hibernate for a few months . |
| 12 | The danger with this was that the longer it went on the more likely it became that both players and fans would get their priorities wrong , so that the feeling of ‘ we may as well concentrate on what we 're good at and not bother too much about Tests ’ would become steadily more predominant . |
| 13 | Similarly , there is no point in heaving away at a recalcitrant waste pipe if you intend to replace it , so you may as well cut through it a short distance from the wall with a hacksaw . |
| 14 | May as well live in the present , that 's what I say . |
| 15 | The Town Moor draw 's favours are so unpredictable that you may as well stick to choosing a horse for its name alone . |