Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv] [vb infin] the same " in BNC.

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1 But Des points out that everybody else on this road is running anyway , and if we want to stay unnoticed we 'd better do the same .
2 Graham reflected : ‘ We did n't have the same desire as Leeds .
3 Well absolutely , I mean we 've got together a little earlier this year to make sure we did n't have the same problem as last year , and obviously that 's a good thing to get all the problems out of the way so early and so we can all plan ahead for next year without facing any problems that , you know , just before the season starts like we did this year , so altogether a good thing , yes .
4 Whilst we did not expect the same standard of play we should have expected something better .
5 At present , we did not pay the same attention to the commercial development of our country that other nations paid to their development on those lines .
6 We do n't think the same man was involved in each case , but it could be a copycat attack , ’ said detective inspector Trevor Ord , of Northumbria Police .
7 Now it could be said of course that we do n't offer the same kind of very intense opportunities that are on offer to undergraduates , but in some senses , and many adults have testified to this , this is an advantage , because it enables people in their own time , and sometimes over a fairly prolonged period , to explore with a tutor , a scholar , the kind of interests that they have in the issues that have concerned them in society .
8 We do n't anticipate the same rate of increase that we saw last year , but we 'd be expecting probably somewhere in the region of a 10 to 15 per cent increase over the coming year .
9 We do n't want the same to happen to us in the UK — to go the same way as the British motor or electronics industries have — and to prevent this we must make ourselves as lean , fit and efficient as possible ; able to compete with the Japanese on quality , service , delivery and price .
10 We do n't have the same problem over here .
11 In tide free waters like the Mediterranean we do n't have the same problem but we still need to consult a chart to find out a suitable location for sailing .
12 We do n't have the same one all the time .
13 ‘ It is also important to make sure we do n't have the same kind of shops in one part of the centre , ’ he said .
14 We do n't get the same back-up .
15 My sister and I may share the same birthday , but we do n't share the same man , though if we did it would be none of your business . ’
16 Now today if you rang me up to do removals , we do n't work the same way .
17 I do n't understand why we do n't apply the same logic to other mammals .
18 We do not speak the same language . ’
19 We do not have the same pre-programmed instincts and mind patterns , the same tattvic constitution , and we thus find it difficult to know exactly what is being communicated .
20 In Scotland we do not have the same problem .
21 We do not derive the same sense of meaning from a bee 's waggle dance as its companions do .
22 Yet we do not apply the same common-sense principles to our own bodies .
23 Is n't it strange that most of us do not pay the same careful attention to our body ?
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