Example sentences of "he [vb mod] as [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Klepner 's gon na get his job he may as well do the spiel . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But if my cousin wants to contemplate the mysteries of the unknown , then he may as well do it in the middle of a Ch'noze snowstorm . ’ |
| 4 | A knowledge of the working of a solicitor 's office , particularly er o of those departments handling non-contentious business , can not be automatically imputed to the judge or to council and he may as well make it is not uncommon for an expert witness to give evidence of what he would have done in a particular situation after consideration and er I resign on that because in my submission er the issues in this case are clearly issues of mixed fact and law and my Lord it is seen from the report handed up that there is particularly in relation to the erm financial aspect of the case , reference to a provision within a professional conduct of solicitors guide as to what the nature of the er duties of the solicitor in the situation is . |
| 5 | On the tragedy and the hilarity of being in an uncomfortable place : Yasser Arafat jokes that he lives in an aeroplane because being made homeless , he might as well live in the air . |
| 6 | He might as well ask the reader to believe in those supremely credible terrorized musicians scraping and blowing through the small hours . |
| 7 | WHEN Saul Bellow wrote of America as the place where the ‘ modern action ’ is , he might as well have included the whole continent : Central and South America , with their chaotic flux of civil wars , bloody massacres , assassinations , coups and putsches , are about as modern as the action gets . |
| 8 | ‘ But he might as well have this before getting up . ’ |
| 9 | He might as well get used to it , the cold . |
| 10 | He might as well not bother . |
| 11 | He might as well have picked a family at random out of the telephone book and stayed with them . |
| 12 | He might as well have descended on the Palace , announcing that he had come for a stay . |
| 13 | Now that he had the information he needed , he might as well leave in any case . |
| 14 | He might as well save himself a Monday evening . |
| 15 | Ferdinando spent the night before departure with her but he might as well not have done . |
| 16 | It did n't really matter , their expressions seemed to say , he might as well have been a short-order cook or a deep-sea diver or a male prostitute . |
| 17 | However , he had bought land from the New Zealand and Australia Land Company on good terms and he thought he might as well take the chance of a place while he could . |
| 18 | My argument was that he might as well use pit-props for his fishing , for he could n't possibly gain any enjoyment from playing fish , or handling such a rod with no more than a 4lb line . |
| 19 | Others said that their driving was risky because friends and , to a lesser extent , the public , police and insurance companies labelled him as ‘ high risk ’ and charged him a high premium , he might as well get his money 's worth . |
| 20 | ‘ He might as well realise that now . |
| 21 | My Mother was n't insured and the funeral director 's bill of £150 was a shock ( he might as well have asked for the moon ) . |
| 22 | He might as well have been blowing a dog whistle for all we heard of his wasted energy . |
| 23 | He might as well have saved his breath — a sea of green benches confronted the Ulster members . |
| 24 | His tone of voice was so bland that he might as well have been asking my opinion of Wavebreaker 's sea-keeping qualities . |
| 25 | He might as well be at a polytechnic . |
| 26 | He might as well make hay while the sun shone , he told himself . |
| 27 | He thought he might as well look over his skiing equipment , instead of listening to his parents snapping at each other . |
| 28 | He might as well be dead . |
| 29 | Aunt Christine Smith stormed : ‘ He might as well have run over a dog . ’ |
| 30 | If acting was good enough for Dylan Thomas , who was probably his lifetime 's hero , if it was the world of words of David Jones and the wish of dear old Phil — then all in all he might as well give it a try . |