Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] do the [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Sometimes , when Henry was trying to write a letter of apology to the analyst for having quit , and wondering whether the man was all right — and when Finch was pondering the need to do the same thing — they would wander off together and watch Cecil coaching the people he referred to as ‘ the speaking parts . ’
2 In these circumstances I thought it would better serve the interests of air safety generally if a properly appointed accredited representative had the right to do the same thing .
3 A study of a small savings bank in Massachusetts found that its branch-based salesmen sold more than three times as many policies as agents hired by the bank to do the same job , and five times as many as agents working directly for an insurer .
4 Those coming in from the sea do the same thing in reverse , leaving the wheel with a sideways dive when they are within a few yards of their nest-hole .
5 A footballer done the same thing .
6 Thus Indochinese with top marks from the Grandes Écoles in France returned home to serve under Frenchmen with much lower qualifications , or none at all , on a salary which was approximately a fifth of what would be paid to a European doing the same work .
7 Now ask a friend to do the same analysis of your attitudes , preferences and prejudices .
8 Detective Inspector Frank Wilkinson of Skelmersdale CID said : ‘ We want to find this man before he has a chance to do the same thing again .
9 Now that two hundred pound will only pay one man for a for a week to do the same thing .
10 There 's a lot of competition to get your space , specially with the Latins ; they 're not used to a woman doing the same job as well as they do . ’
11 While a modem acts as a two-way interface for text and numeric data between a computer and a telephone line , a codec does the same job with multimedia information and especially motion video .
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