Example sentences of "you [vb mod] [conj] well " in BNC.
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1 | Come on now , you may as well tell us . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Once you lose sight of land , you may as well be in space . ’ |
4 | You may as well forget the idea of banning things . |
5 | Never think that you have blown your exercise schedule so you may as well not bother going back to it . |
6 | Infuriating it may be , but you may as well shrug your shoulders as the locals do and accept that these things are part and parcel of travel overseas . |
7 | If you are not using the swimfeeder as it should be used then you may as well tackle up with a link-leger and feed by hand . |
8 | Obviously , you need a heavy bomb to cast the distance , so you may as well use bolt-rig tactics that will take a great deal of sag out of that great length of line when you clip up to the rod . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | A question of : you may as well have it , for ‘ it 's on the table ’ . |
11 | ‘ You may as well ask us to guarantee world peace , ’ said record company EMI 's Louise Bagshawe . |
12 | ‘ Well , you may as well come on in now you 're here . ’ |
13 | If you 're an artist preoccupied with what people think , you may as well give up . ’ |
14 | But look up once from that paper , get up from the table to make coffee or stir the fire , even just raise your head to look at the view outside the window , and you may as well give up until tomorrow . |
15 | In ‘ The logic of Waco ’ ( April 24th ) you state ‘ If a man has anti-tank weapons , you may as well bring in tanks . ’ |
16 | 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 . |
17 | You may as well just put the record on . |
18 | You may as well cut costs . |
19 | I am very much displeased with the freedoms you have taken with my name , and you may as well have real cause to take these freedoms with me . |
20 | ‘ You may as well . |
21 | ‘ You may as well start again from the beginning , ’ Schaffer said . |
22 | You may as well go home . |
23 | You may as well take it away with you . |
24 | ‘ You may as well stay outside , there 's an awful crowd in there . ’ |
25 | ‘ Very well , you are here and you may as well stay . ’ |
26 | And once they 're all sticking out , dead and scaly , they 're redundant anyway , so you may as well trim it all down . |
27 | It 's no excuse , but you may as well know anyway : in Rex 's case , paralysis below the waist really does mean what it says . ’ |
28 | ‘ You were good to the old thing during her lifetime , ’ he said , ‘ so you may as well trot along . |
29 | ‘ 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 . |
30 | ‘ You may as well sit down . ’ |