Example sentences of "[noun] do the [det] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His achievements to date were listed : charges laid on the railway in the Tobruk area on the night of 14 October ; a failed attempt to do the same near Sidi Barani which resulted in the death of the patrol commander , Lieutenant Shorten ; two further breaks in the railway on 24 October ; nine breaks on 29 October , and finally another attack on the track on 31 October . |
| 2 | If traditional metaphor brings together two semantic fields by means of a similarity of signifieds , then the pun does the same by virtue of a homonymy or similarity of signifiers . |
| 3 | I recall some of the chaps doing the same at Oundle . ’ |
| 4 | Superstars in search of role models ; Bette Midler is developing a biography of Berlin chanteuse and Kurt Weill wife/collaborator Lotte Lenya , Barbra Streisand does the same for pioneer Time photographer Margaret Bourke-White , and one-time Billie Holliday Diana Ross produces and stars in one of three current versions of Naked At The Feast , '20s Folies Bergere legend Josephine Baker 's biography . |
| 5 | British actors Glen Murphy , Sean Blowers and Richard Walsh did the same for London 's Burning . |
| 6 | Smaller animals on the grasslands prefer to hide away when they are not feeding ; so the prairie dogs , which are rodents , live in vast , colonial underground burrows in North America ( with burrowing owls for occasional company ) , and the sousliks do the same in Asia . |
| 7 | Thus Moses passes on the Spirit of the Lord to Joshua ( Deut. 34:9 ) and Elijah does the same to Elisha ( 2 Kgs. 2:9,10,15 ) . |
| 8 | Silent Scream attempts to do the same for Larry Winters , a Glaswegian murderer who waxed poetic behind bars before topping himself . |
| 9 | It was a pity he did n't get the opportunity to do the same against France in the final . |
| 10 | And now it has launched a Home Emergency Service to do the same for homeowners . |
| 11 | Henry himself marched into Anjou to carry out a similar policy and sent Geoffrey to do the same in Brittany . |
| 12 | Your envoys do the same in England . ’ |
| 13 | I think Mervyn did the same with Douglas Camfield on the Lilliput story [ 'Planet of Giants ' ] we did later . ’ |
| 14 | At the finish the Hungarians outsprinted the Belgians while Ballard/Slater did the same to Williams/Martin a couple of minutes later . |
| 15 | ( Remember Dupin being able to tell his friend step by step just what his silent train of thought had been , and Holmes doing the same to Watson . ) |
| 16 | Could Daniel Carey do the same in Frizingley ? |
| 17 | The Habsburgs thus tried to isolate the various movements of national autonomy from their peasant base , and the Russian tsar did the same in Poland . |
| 18 | Could Swift Tuttle do the same to mankind ? |
| 19 | On several occasions , we have invited former members of staff to launch previews , and I am sure it is a good idea to do the same at Lyons farm . |
| 20 | The kid brother went on to make a moderate fortune doing the same with golf balls and golf clubs . |