Example sentences of "[subord] well try [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the other … you might just as well try to go to sleep when your feet are cold or you want to spend a penny , or you 're hungry for a special kind of food you have n't got . |
| 2 | Still , if sex has got to exist we might as well try to do it properly . |
| 3 | as if pleading helped — she might as well try to appeal to the better nature of a power-crazed tyrant . |
| 4 | Vologsky might as well try to take off and escape in a hot air balloon . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Soon I thought I might as well try to get into a band and so I answered a few ads in Melody Maker and joined a few bands . |
| 7 | Li Yuan might as well try to harness Change itself as try to force the boy 's talents to conform to the needs of State . |
| 8 | ‘ Might as well try to ambush an elephant ! ’ quacked number Three . |
| 9 | Popular culture gives us plenty of female verbal incontinence ( cf the Andy Capp joke : ‘ when two wives get together , who has the last word ? ’ ) and illogical women who ca n't keep to the point ( as a character in the soap opera Coronation Street comments , ‘ you might as well try to knit fog as follow what 's in a woman 's mind ’ ) . |
| 10 | ‘ We had a common view , ’ Lewis once conceded in a letter , but we had it before we met , ’ insisting that no one ever influenced Tolkien : ‘ You might as well try to influence a bandersnatch . ’ |