Example sentences of "doing [art] same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The examples of splitting and lumping therefore , are not alternative ways of doing the same thing . |
| 32 | I went down from the upper grandstand as fast as I could , which was far too slowly because everyone else was doing the same thing . |
| 33 | No Act of Parliament ever repealed the privilege of sanctuary within the girth of Holyrood Abbey , but defaulting Abbey Lairds no longer occupied the area where Thomas de Quincey knew he was safe from his creditors and Walter Scott seriously thought of doing the same thing . |
| 34 | They 've been touring and doing the same thing for forty , fifty years and nothing has changed for them , and so I do n't think it 's a real resurgence in the US , but it 's great to see it happening over here . ’ |
| 35 | In any case , if one insists on anthropomorphizing the gene , it behaves not selfishly but in utter disregard of its own interests , either doing the same thing over and over again or , by mutation , doing something else quite arbitrarily , and passively allowing itself to be favoured or eliminated by natural selection . |
| 36 | It is difficult to explain to those you love why you want to go on doing the same thing … the easy thing is to avoid looking at reality , to run away from it . |
| 37 | ‘ The police arrest us for breach of the peace for horn blowing , but never the huntsmen for doing the same thing . ’ |
| 38 | We , myself and Bill , although we have been doing the same thing for more than 20 years , could not really work together . |
| 39 | Other young fellows were doing the same thing ; we used to meet and recognize each other and compare notes — and pretty scathing we were at times with what we found . |
| 40 | Like Novell Inc , which appears to be doing the same thing ( UX No 413 ) , WordPerfect reportedly has big-time legal beagles at its beck and call . |
| 41 | One person who spends much of his time doing the same thing is Master of Wine Tim Hanni from the Beringer Vineyards School for American Chefs . |
| 42 | Two people winking are not always doing the same thing . |
| 43 | It has assumed " the system as before " , but with trimmings , and this can be seen in the very use of the phrase " audio-visual aids " , a term which presupposes a type of use , as an adjunct , an added extra , a novel way of doing the same thing . |
| 44 | Each animal reacts individually to the movements of the prey and each benefits from the fact that her companions are doing the same thing . |
| 45 | Holding a length of silk in its beak , it then pierces a hole in the leaf and pushes the silk through it , tying a little knot in the end to prevent the thread from slipping back through the hole and then doing the same thing on the other side so that the two leaf surfaces are secured to one another . |
| 46 | Even as I am recounting the edited version , it occurs to me that Fairfax has probably been doing the same thing . |
| 47 | If the police had never set up the jewellers shop , they would , in my judgment , have been doing the same thing , though of course they would not have been doing it in that shop , at that time . |
| 48 | In this way share prices are determined not by reference to estimations of fundamental value , but by a series of guesses about the behaviour of other market participants ; they result from ‘ [ s ] peculations on the speculations of other speculators who are doing the same thing ’ . |
| 49 | ‘ If you build more prisons you 're doing the same thing , ’ the Governor said . |
| 50 | ‘ You mean they were probably lying or coming over romantic about the past , and , what 's more , all those old poets were probably doing the same thing . |
| 51 | On the other hand , the two British entries , Richardson and Hynds , worked together to take a substantial win in men 's K1 with Hemmings and Gilby doing the same thing in the ladies ' K1 event in a field of only three . |
| 52 | Although he was promoted to begin his search for Troy because of an obscure literary reference to the lost city , he was at heart doing the same thing as modern detectorists ; albeit , some might say , at a more scholarly level — searching for something lost and using his wits to find it . |
| 53 | She choked out Rosalba 's message , that he should meet her there , in the same place , tomorrow , that he should come , as if to light a candle , and she would be there , doing the same thing , early , before the morning Mass . |
| 54 | We 're doing the same thing here , we 've got a , a low resistance letting a lot of current in , letting a lot of current go through . |
| 55 | And this is happened all over the country , each area are doing the same thing and all of this this er produce this declaration of intent and ask the , the head of the er council to put it to their members and get the support of their members . |
| 56 | Erm but this is more or less , indigenous within the engineering industry , there is even inherent within an engineering mind , and I 'm not with the planners or the technical experts , but even in the ordinary lay engineer , he looks to be able to do the job more efficiently , with the materials that he has in hand er and possibly introduce a new type of tool if he can get the proper material , and likewise the employer was doing the same thing . |
| 57 | Yes in theory we should be doing the same thing |
| 58 | They 's doing the same thing outside your flat . |
| 59 | He was here in his professional capacity , doing the same thing as she was , in essence , as she was planning to remain in the building to offer moral support to any of the staff who might need it , faced with the unaccustomed demands of this minor crisis . |
| 60 | And if we 're doing the same thing , they 're gon na s sooner of later they 're gon na click and they 're gon na say , Well you know , that 's too much of a good thing like you know . |