Example sentences of "doing [adv] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Latterday Marxist interpreters of Shakespeare are doing much the same as the conservative proponents of the Elizabethan World Picture did thirty or forty years ago , though with a different conceptual model . |
| 2 | In their different ways , Hanson and ICI are doing much the same thing : running a portfolio of businesses . |
| 3 | Hogarth was doing much the same thing , though for the less fashion-conscious end of the market . |
| 4 | Under the scheme holders of government bonds could choose to exchange them for South Sea Company shares , and the government would pay interest on these bonds to the South Sea Company at a lower rate than it paid previously — the South Sea Company was doing much the same thing as the East India Company , providing the government with a loan at a reduced rate of interest in exchange for overseas trading privileges . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , in a studio in north London , Geoffrey Winston of Thumb Design Partnership , seems to be doing much the same . |
| 6 | Brigadier Hillary-Jones has nephews and nieces doing much the same . |
| 7 | When he arrived he was doing much the same thing since he was n't as naïve about the values of the secret world as she assumed : assuring himself there was nothing to suspect and being careful not to find any signs of it . |
| 8 | But when he looked over his shoulder , expecting Eve to be doing much the same , she was heading in quite a different direction . |
| 9 | For many beginners , reaching , turning and often falling is what an afternoon 's windsurfing consists of , which , although it is comforting and fun to be with the dozens of others who are doing exactly the same , does n't lead to much improvement in their sailing . |
| 10 | Plenty of other people , unknown to you , are doing exactly the same . |
| 11 | After many months of careful observation he realized that he was doing exactly the same thing while talking , but to a much lesser extent , and that was why his speaking habits had gone undetected . |
| 12 | I realize that there may well be seven others doing exactly the same thing , but I believe that God will help the most sincere and the most deserving . |
| 13 | Rock'n'roll has become so totally predictable and everybody has been doing exactly the same thing now for , like , 25 years . |
| 14 | Now a TODAY investigation shows that Phillip Levy was doing exactly the same . |
| 15 | ‘ His people are justifiably condemning Riddick Bowe for flouting the rules , but they are doing exactly the same thing . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I am still doing exactly the same things as I did before the operation but at a slower pace . |
| 17 | No one was doing anything and I thought , ‘ Well , hell , I 'm guilty of doing exactly the same thing as everybody else is doing . |
| 18 | With bigger overheads , these have to charge economical fees and can often be undercut by the medium agencies in doing exactly the same programme of work . |
| 19 | Although women were in practice doing exactly the same work as certain categories of men , they too perceived the division of labour as a gender division , and took as their point of reference for equality the " all-round comp " , whom both masters and men held up as the exemplar , rather than the humbler linesman . |
| 20 | The largest sine ] " Occupational group among the fathers is indeed compositors ( 10 ) and these men 's daughters were doing exactly the same as their sons : following their father into a trade . |
| 21 | This is the reason that the ‘ equal-value amendment ’ was passed , which means that a woman seeking equal pay can compare herself with a man doing work of similar value , and not the more stringent condition of a man who is actually doing exactly the same work . |
| 22 | Do you really think that was a coincidence-gravity pulling on the Shuttle harder like that so both of you end up doing exactly the same thing ? |
| 23 | Then the same bunch of faces pop up , standing in exactly the same positions , doing exactly the same things in front of different houses . |
| 24 | I thought I was the bad girl , but everybody else was doing exactly the same . |
| 25 | Although I do n't feel I 've changed much because I 'm doing exactly the same things . |
| 26 | This publications audit will often turn up other interesting facts that you might have been unaware of like two departments doing exactly the same thing through different outside agencies or short runs being hammered out on page printers when they could have been more effectively produced on a photocopier or by a print shop . |
| 27 | For the priests , in fact , were doing exactly the same trick , and probably by exactly the same means , as the old East Anglian and Scottish horsemen who made out and actually believed that the horse 's immobility was the result of some secret and magical device they had resorted to . |
| 28 | Of course , little bits of practice help ; but if a child goes on doing exactly the same thing just as incompetently every day for a month , or even three months , it does not necessarily mean that no progress is being made : it is , but inside , where you ca n't see it . |
| 29 | Doing exactly the same thing . |
| 30 | And my mother , evidently doing exactly the same over me ! |