Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [verb] do [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 I 've only been on since I read that thing in the square ball , and I suppose loads must have done the same as me and jumped on the bandwagon .
2 " I expect Manners 'ud like to do the same . "
3 Daedalus would like to do the same thing for human senses , and DREADCO chemists are now at work on his ‘ contrast-exalting spectacles ’ or ‘ Cexspex ’ ( Regd. ) make of a cunning tinted glass .
4 After all she was her friend and she was in no doubt that had the positions been reversed Maggie would have done the same .
5 ‘ Anyone in her shoes would have done the same thing . ’
6 He dialled Dottie 's number , trying not to dwell on thoughts of the times Michael Banks must have done the same from the same phone .
7 Ten years earlier no Company official would have done much about this , and even in 1757 not many officials would have done the same as Clive : he joined the conspiracy against Siraj-ud-Daula , led his little army of 3,000 men against the Bengal army of 60,000 , committed his troops beyond hope of withdrawal by crossing the Hughli ( the lesser Ganges ) , and on 23 June 1757 held them steady at the battle of Plassey .
8 Ashdown could have done the same .
9 My mother always kept letters in their envelopes and a lot of other people must have done the same or the stamp business generally would have been the poorer . ’
10 But any neighbouring vet would have done the same . ’
11 It eventually emerged , after dogged questioning in parliament , that the PSA would have done the same job for £1,500 .
12 Alternatively , make for Tower Bridge , but time is again of the essence as huge numbers of loving relatives and friends will try to do the same and space is limited .
13 Aldermaston scientists will try to do the same with hair from Anna Anderson who claimed , until her death in America eight years ago , that she was the Tsar 's daughter Anastasia — the sole survivor of the massacre .
14 And you in turn can choose to do the same .
15 ‘ Of course , Mowbray would have done the same , but then what happened ?
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