Example sentences of "done the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | This not only involves a mutual understanding of the common-sense notions in everyday life about what counts as an excuse , it requires that constables put themselves in the position of the offender to test whether they would have done the same . |
| 2 | They have done the same thing to us as Ward did — they suspended us . |
| 3 | It eventually emerged , after dogged questioning in parliament , that the PSA would have done the same job for £1,500 . |
| 4 | She ground a half-smoked cigarette into the ashtray , and McLeish was left with the feeling that she would willingly have done the same to the live flesh of Angela Morgan , if available . |
| 5 | The Dutch had done the same in 1982 , after a horrible massacre at the main army barracks in Paramaribo , the capital . |
| 6 | If he was in her place , he might have done the same thing . |
| 7 | Before twelfth-century English bishops helped to propagate a canon law based on papal direction by appealing constantly to Rome for guidance , Boniface had done the same in the eighth century . |
| 8 | But I have deliberately left out in both those chapters the actual details of weight lost or gained , and have done the same in my own story at the beginning of the book . |
| 9 | Turtle , venison and turbot are named among the good things — provided mainly , it seems , by Joseph Cradock , who had done the same for the LNU at its opening at Harborough in 1809 . |
| 10 | When Robert McFarlane was charged with withholding information from Congress about diverting arms sale funds to the Contras , Reagan openly joked that he had done the same and withheld information from Congress . |
| 11 | Has it done the same to you ? ’ |
| 12 | I 'm sure you 'd have done the same if you 'd been in my shoes . ’ |
| 13 | After all she was her friend and she was in no doubt that had the positions been reversed Maggie would have done the same . |
| 14 | You and I might have done the same if we had been there , though we would have had none of the technical skill and detailed knowledge of Fleming . |
| 15 | If one of my staff had done the same thing I do believe I 'd have fired him . |
| 16 | In successfully pressing for a referendum on the Common Market , he obliged Wilson to suspend the doctrine of collective Cabinet responsibility , an event without precedent since the National Government had done the same on the free-trade issue in the early thirties . |
| 17 | If you had been a small shopkeeper with some money why might you have done the same ? |
| 18 | I would like to tell you about two special friends who were blood brothers ( perhaps you also remember what it felt like to cut your finger and touch another who had done the same ? ) . |
| 19 | Sergeant says to her , ‘ If I 'd been there , I 'd have done the same . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ You would have done the same for me , ’ he replied . |
| 21 | If th'guts 'd been griping and grinding like as if a corkscrew were twisting there , thee 'ud have done the same . |
| 22 | I adore what other players get from Marshall amps but for some reason they 've never done the same for me , so this one 's going to have to prove itself , the same as the rest . |
| 23 | In Germany , Peter Malinski has done the same , except that , whereas the Italian kites fly in the vertical plane , Peter 's are very wide span horizontal designs . |
| 24 | Ashdown could have done the same . |
| 25 | Many 's the time I 've been with people whose eyes glazed over when I 've said I was a feminist and I 've done the same with people who say they love to play golf . |
| 26 | ‘ Anyone in her shoes would have done the same thing . ’ |
| 27 | Her own mother had done the same . |
| 28 | He had done the same for old and sick people when he lived in the Borinage , so it was nothing new . |
| 29 | Now he wished he had waited a year and a half and done the same thing here . |
| 30 | ‘ The reaction from my clients and business contacts was tremendous — perhaps some of them wish they had done the same — and one senior partner from the Big Six wrote and told me that his mother had been a great friend of Lady Reading , the WRVS 's founder , and that until he was 15 he thought all women dressed in green ! ’ |