Example sentences of "does the same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seamus should be told to put those right before someone else does the same thing . ’ |
| 2 | In other words , rather than using a notepad and pen , you have the privilege of paying £100 for a piece of complicated electronics that does the same thing . |
| 3 | This year 's Pulitzer prizewinner play , ‘ Angels in America ’ , does the same thing on stage . |
| 4 | He does the same thing — puts his ex-partners and ex-girlfriends in his films . ’ |
| 5 | We also have the paradox that ( as Posner , 1972 , p. 153 admits ) those same people who tend to argue that the common law promotes efficiency also reject the idea that regulatory law does the same thing . |
| 6 | He grabs the top edge with his hands , thumps the face of the buttress several times with his feet and then does the same thing on the other side of the buttress with his hands before springing down to the ground . |
| 7 | That done , he leans over to the other side and does the same thing with his other hand and foot so that both his palms and his soles are anointed with his pungent urine . |
| 8 | ‘ In the summer he comes nearly every day and always does the same thing . ’ |
| 9 | And even where they have the technology capabilities to start doing this there is clearly little point in replacing an existing system with a new one which simply does the same thing . |
| 10 | But , of course , such a male could never reproduce and natural selection is ultimately a question of reproductive success , not of fitness , and in fact from now on you will find me avoiding the term fitness and instead talking about reproductive success , and you 'll find that all the best literature , like Trivers ' book , does the same thing . |
| 11 | But this one does the same thing as ever . |
| 12 | ‘ But everybody does the same thing , more or less . |
| 13 | It 's funny because Dinda does the same thing . |
| 14 | , my mother does the same thing , no . |