Example sentences of "do [adv] the same [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crows may do much the same sort of thing as buzzards and eagles but , since there are so many of them , the luckless crows are ignored . |
| 2 | and as the same thing applies to the knee exactly the same thing , wound there you keep the knee bent a little bit and you can do exactly the same bandage like a figure of eight , okay ? |
| 3 | I would have done exactly the same thing in her shoes , ’ says Joe . |
| 4 | ‘ Terrorism is to be condemned from whatever quarter and in an effort to do so the same rules of descriptive terminology should be applied to all victims , ’ Mr McMichael added . |
| 5 | Then the same bunch of faces pop up , standing in exactly the same positions , doing exactly the same things in front of different houses . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Although there was some division of Conservative opinion , it appeared that a majority both of the Cabinet and of the backbenchers favoured either the acceptance of the bill or a Government measure doing roughly the same job in its place . |
| 9 | Pedal steel players do much the same kind of thing , but they 're lucky because they 've got loads of strings to play around with ; when you 're a guitar player and you 're down to six , you have to break it down and come up with some simpler versions . ’ |
| 10 | Other clubs did much the same things for provincial leaders ; it was to the Constitutional Club that Salvidge went when in London and it was there that he stayed . |
| 11 | The occasions that stand out in the three decades of our post-imperial era are : Duncan Sandys ' 1957 decision to recommend the end of National Service , which almost halved the Army ; the Kennedy/Macmillan Polaris agreement at Nassau in 1962 that led to the RAF losing responsibility to the Royal Navy for the British nuclear deterrent ; Denis Healey 's scrapping of the TSR2 in 1965 , which threatened to ‘ unhorse ’ the RAF 's knights ; his cancellation of the aircraft-carrier replacement programme in 1966 , which did much the same thing to the Royal Navy ; and John Nott 's attempt in 1981 to maintain the strength of the Rhine Army and RAF Germany at the expense of our maritime capability . |
| 12 | Jazzbeaux heard they did much the same thing in Jap corp boardrooms . |
| 13 | ‘ Because it did exactly the same thing to me . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ The second alleged that I took the players off to Henlow Grange for four days before the Cup-tie with Charlton last season without his say-so … although we did exactly the same thing for the previous round . |
| 15 | And assistant boss John McVeigh reckons the 24-year-old does just the same job at Broomfield as Rangers ' European Cup hero . |