Example sentences of "as well [vb infin] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may as well forget the idea of banning things . |
| 2 | it 's coming up to time now anyway so we might as well forget the break . |
| 3 | But we might as well eat the food anyway . ’ |
| 4 | I may as well tell the story , though a new generation , growing up since the Odonata arrived on Earth , will find it incredible . |
| 5 | We say " true " , " correct " , so it is , etc. , but we could just as well reiterate the proposition concerned . |
| 6 | Might as well watch the wildlife programme . |
| 7 | If Klepner 's gon na get his job he may as well do the spiel . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If the subordinate has to be so elaborately controlled the supervisor might just as well undertake the task . |
| 10 | They might as well pull the trigger or plant the Semtex themselves , they 're just as responsible for the violence as the paramilitaries ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 12 | I might as well end the pain now . |
| 13 | You might then find that having gone to the trouble of preparing a good speech and a joke just in case , you decide that you might as well give the speech anyway ! |
| 14 | In fact you might as well sign the lot and give them to me . ’ |
| 15 | in this private in this country does n't mean that you 've got to pay for it , it does mean that you 've got to pay for yourself , but its not like obligatory , so you might as well get the money you can , if you that , at that , at that standard are n't , had n't you really ? , if you can get that money , you 'd be thick not to go for it |
| 16 | If you 're gon na have double glazing going to that exte that expense , you may as well get the aluminium and |
| 17 | You might as well ask the wind . |
| 18 | He might as well ask the reader to believe in those supremely credible terrorized musicians scraping and blowing through the small hours . |
| 19 | Steve , 33 , said : ‘ I might as well ask the hospital to take the other leg off . ’ |
| 20 | I might as well run the bastard place meself ! ’ |
| 21 | Might as well look the part , since all artists were considered crazy and bohemian . |
| 22 | ‘ It does n't last all that long , so you might as well milk the business while you can . |
| 23 | I might as well complete the process . ’ |
| 24 | I might just as well clean the gun . |
| 25 | She might as well accept the challenge . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , ’ said Mrs Fletcher , 'now that you 're here you might as well take the jersey and socks . |
| 28 | Ford believed , in fact , that putting colleges with the CNAA rather than their local university meant for students that ‘ academically they might as well take the train to London ’ . |
| 29 | We might as well spend the night in some comfort . ’ |
| 30 | If you can throw down the shoulder line , then you might as well put the ball in the jumper 's hands , never mind throw it to him . |