Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb infin] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm training the red-tailed buzzard as a hunting bird , though , and I 've found it sometimes prefers to look around for food for itself , rather than just come to my lure . |
| 2 | I just think it was a momentum that was caused by some villages feeling safer from the nationalists as they got further and further from the front and therefore more and more people a bit f erm being willing to sort of talk again , shout up against the , the landlords and as they saw , as they saw that their neighbours were getting land , all the others decided well they 're getting land , we might as well talk to , have a talk about them the problems and the harsh treatment that we 've had in , in years before . |
| 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 | Might as well talk to yourself Iris . |
| 5 | May as well go to bed in a drunken stupor after dinner , same as the rest of them . |
| 6 | May as well go to bed now . ’ |
| 7 | She gave me a weak smile and said : ‘ I might as well go to bed . |
| 8 | you might as well go to bed with a Mills and Boon . |
| 9 | So you might as well go to the information office in San Marco and book yourself on the next flight out of here . |
| 10 | It was barely eight o'clock when she decided she might as well go to bed , but , when she headed towards the kitchen to make a suppertime hot drink , he followed her . |
| 11 | you know they might as well go to the toilet at the same time and all this sort of stuff and yet a little bit of information about that , how long does it take to put together ? and various other things you know where 's the staff manual kept I mean when I joined , I did n't know purchase and this sort of stuff . |
| 12 | ‘ Then you might as well go to bed while I finish up here , ’ he suggested . |
| 13 | But I might as well go to bed . |
| 14 | But I might as well go to bed ? |
| 15 | Cos I 'm not going to Reading tomorrow so I 'm , I might as well go to football tomorrow instead use that |
| 16 | If we 're gon na spend money you might as well go to Littlewoods or |
| 17 | At this point I might as well confess to being what is called in the trade a ‘ megalithomaniac ’ . |
| 18 | Current levels of unemployment are relatively unimportant , hopefully some time down the line they will expect to get er as a relatively well paid job erm because agricultural incomes are so very low , you know , and urban incomes are relatively , relatively high , they may be prepared to wait for you know five or six years in the urban area , making what could be sort of a subsistence wage , simply because that 's all that they 're gon na be on anyway if they stay in the rural area , so if there is a higher probability of them getting a well paid job merely by being in the urban area making these contacts then they might as well move to the , to the urban area in the hope of some time in the future obtaining that er er an urban job . |
| 19 | The Town Moor draw 's favours are so unpredictable that you may as well stick to choosing a horse for its name alone . |
| 20 | Suppose he says that we might just as well pray to ‘ Our Mother which art in Heaven ’ … . |
| 21 | You might just as well say to a publisher , should you take his advance royalties ! " |