Example sentences of "would [verb] [verb] the same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Idly I wonder if she 'd have done the same thing had the play been Shakespearean : ‘ Now is the winter of our discontent … but leaving aside discontent for the moment I want you all to put your hands together for good old birthday boy Barry in Box B. All together now , Happy Birthday to you … ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd have thought the same thing would apply to you , ’ she said , evading a direct answer . |
| 3 | I would like to see the same thing happen to them . ’ |
| 4 | Daedalus would like to do the same thing for human senses , and DREADCO chemists are now at work on his ‘ contrast-exalting spectacles ’ or ‘ Cexspex ’ ( Regd. ) make of a cunning tinted glass . |
| 5 | I would like to do the same thing to them |
| 6 | Where which probably the parents when I was doing midwifery would have said the same thing but there was nothing they could do about it . |
| 7 | I would like to think that if Freud were alive today , he would have said the same thing , of course when Freud wrote this book in nineteen twenty one er there was no such thing as group psychotherapy it had n't been invented yet , it was to become very much after World War Two but partly existed before and perhaps it 's past its peak now , but erm it did become very much a after World War Two and the point I made was and this is really wh wh what Heather ha h has just said , that if you take Freud 's book on , on group seriously , how can you do group psychoanalysis ? |
| 8 | ‘ Anyone in her shoes would have done the same thing . ’ |
| 9 | So they er would have done the same thing in those days , the children , and erm it fitted in to the easter holiday time to have the actual ploughing match , you see ? |
| 10 | Even to play with a pick I would have to do the same thing , like Phil Lynott did , whereas to play with my fingers in a heavy metal kind of way , as I normally do , I have to have the bass quite low or else my wrist gets mangled up and I start having problems with tendonitis . |