Example sentences of "[pron] do [adv] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did exactly the same thing last year in LA , ’ he revealed . |
| 2 | The occasions that stand out in the three decades of our post-imperial era are : Duncan Sandys ' 1957 decision to recommend the end of National Service , which almost halved the Army ; the Kennedy/Macmillan Polaris agreement at Nassau in 1962 that led to the RAF losing responsibility to the Royal Navy for the British nuclear deterrent ; Denis Healey 's scrapping of the TSR2 in 1965 , which threatened to ‘ unhorse ’ the RAF 's knights ; his cancellation of the aircraft-carrier replacement programme in 1966 , which did much the same thing to the Royal Navy ; and John Nott 's attempt in 1981 to maintain the strength of the Rhine Army and RAF Germany at the expense of our maritime capability . |
| 3 | I have a large Gyrinocheilus aymonieri which does exactly the same thing . |
| 4 | However , if you are carrying out skin-brushing ( which does almost the same job ) , the following simple self-massage sequence will be extremely beneficial and should be regarded as an important ally in any campaign against cellulite . |
| 5 | The best advice I can give you is simply to go for unfair dismissal on the basis that you 've got two managers who do exactly the same job , there 's no need for you to go on site , there are other drivers that could get you there , therefore it 's not necessary to finish your job simply because you 've lost your licence . |
| 6 | As for Pepys , there are curious parallels : both maverick MPs who did almost the same job trying to reform Britain 's armed forces — Pepys more successfully at sea ; both irreverent , yet painfully conscious of their need to keep their patrons sweet ; both hedonists fascinated by sex , class and gossip . |
| 7 | No , you do that line first then you do exactly the same thing again |
| 8 | Well you do exactly the same thing now , |
| 9 | While the Baby Bells try to sell corporate customers advanced services using their own networks , AT&T offers the same lot of customers PABXs which allow them to do exactly the same things . |
| 10 | I do n't mind but that getting a like when Shirl first came she was to get everything done exactly the same time |
| 11 | ‘ The second alleged that I took the players off to Henlow Grange for four days before the Cup-tie with Charlton last season without his say-so … although we did exactly the same thing for the previous round . |
| 12 | We do exactly the same mapping our input pattern onto our tuples . |
| 13 | Jazzbeaux heard they did much the same thing in Jap corp boardrooms . |
| 14 | ‘ Because it did exactly the same thing to me . ’ |
| 15 | Now they 're helping us do exactly the same thing a couple of hundred years on . |