Example sentences of "do [conj] [verb] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence a depressed person may well remember their childhood as considerably less happy than they would have done if asked the same questions before the onset of their current depressive symptoms . |
| 2 | The ordeal of repetition is a way to jumpstart the indecision of beginning again : not to repeat what has been done but to retrace the same path . |
| 3 | Chambers and Trudgill ( 1980 : 90 ) note that it is ‘ not possible to set up done as any kind of linguistic variable , since it is not a form which is involved in alternation with other forms that could be considered to be ‘ equivalent ways of doing or saying the same thing ’ ' . |
| 4 | Particularly , the notion of ‘ equivalent ways of doing or saying the same thing ’ to which Weiner and Labov obliquely refer ( see above ) is much less straightforward than it seems . |
| 5 | Because syntax is embedded in discourse , entirely different forms might have similar functions ( i.e. be used as equivalent ways of doing or saying the same thing ) ; for this reason it is sometimes difficult to specify a principled way of knowing where to stop counting particular forms as variants of a variable . |
| 6 | This may be said to constitute evidence that the speaker views [ SVQ ] and [ QSV ] as ‘ equivalent ways of doing or saying the same thing ’ . |
| 7 | This too is a technique pioneered by Neighbours , where it works best at the beginning and end of each episode , and in the poignant identification of the tragedy of Paul and Gail , who do and say the same things day after day , but wear different clothes . |