Example sentences of "[subord] well [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed if they fail to take the initiative they might as well abandon the people of the area to a grim fate . |
| 2 | You may as well forget the idea of banning things . |
| 3 | it 's coming up to time now anyway so we might as well forget the break . |
| 4 | Goldie takes one look at Rainbow 's shaggy ankles and sighs ; Rainbow says that if she has to wear tights or stockings , we might as well forget the whole damned thing . |
| 5 | But we might as well eat the food anyway . ’ |
| 6 | Given those odds , claims Salsburg , one might as well flip a coin . |
| 7 | She was giving up anyway when the baby came , so she might as well go a little early . ’ |
| 8 | I may as well tell the story , though a new generation , growing up since the Odonata arrived on Earth , will find it incredible . |
| 9 | We say " true " , " correct " , so it is , etc. , but we could just as well reiterate the proposition concerned . |
| 10 | You might as well watch a documentary about depressed women on Channel 4 . |
| 11 | Might as well watch the wildlife programme . |
| 12 | I do not believe , though many readers are convinced of it , that this is what finally attracts them , otherwise they might just as well do a crossword puzzle . |
| 13 | erm you might as well do a bit of a erm you know kind of give it a go and see what happens |
| 14 | If Klepner 's gon na get his job he may as well do the spiel . |
| 15 | In fact you might as well do the last one as well . |
| 16 | Another point to hit home was that in those cases where girls are prepared to give up everything to play on the Tour , they might as well do the job properly . |
| 17 | One might as well compare a soft grass path with a concrete walkway . ’ |
| 18 | The minute we stop doing this , we might as well stop the whole plans procedure . |
| 19 | If the subordinate has to be so elaborately controlled the supervisor might just as well undertake the task . |
| 20 | Might as well bring the clothes and stay here as go home , all the way home and all the way back again . |
| 21 | The Old Testament prophet Jeremiah was right when he said of an unlikely event that you might as well expect a leopard to change its spots . |
| 22 | You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born a free man should be contented penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases … |
| 23 | The dividing line between the pro-cases and the contra-cases is so blurred and ill defined that you might as well toss a coin to decide it . |
| 24 | Er , might as well move the next one in and that cell 's got a file linking formulae which is updated cos of the files in the memory . |
| 25 | There 's simply no personal challenge whatsoever ; one may as well pull the wings off small inspects or laugh at old people . |
| 26 | They might as well pull the trigger or plant the Semtex themselves , they 're just as responsible for the violence as the paramilitaries ’ . |
| 27 | We may as well make a day of it , then start out early tomorrow . ’ |
| 28 | They reason that they might as well make the same effort journeying to meet the other people in person . |
| 29 | Well , I figured that if I was going to have to stick to 55mph all the way to Boston and back , I might as well make the most of it and see as much of the countryside as possible . |
| 30 | ‘ And since she will eventually be coming to live here anyway , do n't you think she may as well make the change-over now ? ’ |