Example sentences of "doing the [det] thing [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was n't too happy about getting down the rock-climb , but luckily there were two other fellows doing the same thing so we egged each other on . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They were doing the same thing as the driver ants , and for the same reasons . |
| 5 | Because whatever er product area you work in then you 're doing the same thing as everybody else is . |