Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But diversifying companies found it much harder to exploit economies of scale and scope in these new fields — usually , says Mr Chandler , because they failed to make the same kind of first-mover investments they had made in their primary businesses . |
| 2 | But although they 'd pursued the same career , that career had taken them in different directions , their meetings infrequent . |
| 3 | In the case of the ‘ Anglo-Saxon conspiracy ’ I do not believe that the majority of international referees would intentionally take biased decisions in favour of one side simply because they happen to speak the same language . |
| 4 | Erm and because they like to keep the same manufacturer on one shaft if they could , they took out six three O seven for the back end . |
| 5 | This approach is particularly useful when their play has become " stuck " , when they continue to enact the same situation in the same way . |
| 6 | And if they keep showing the same committment they showed this afternoon , then we 've got a chance . ’ |
| 7 | They aim to capture the same market — small to medium-sized businesses that in the past did not have the same buying power as blue-chip companies . |
| 8 | They 've done the same thing . |
| 9 | They 've got the same squad of fifteen who did so well last week . |
| 10 | They 've got a different atomic weight , cos they 've got a different number of neutrons , but they got the same number of protons and they 've got the same pattern of electrons , and the pattern of those outer electrons is what decides its chemical properties . |
| 11 | And yet they 've got the same amount of time |
| 12 | Erm we do n't see a great deal of difference that they 've had the same problem as we 've had , in that we ran out of time before we could put the er finished act together properly . |
| 13 | I think people should stick with what suits them , even if they 've had the same thing for years . |
| 14 | At Tiverton in 1809 they had claimed they had received the same rate for 300 years ! |
| 15 | Then , like a shoal of fish moving within a net , Rose and the girls started to clear the table , to brush away crumbs , to wash , to dry , to return each thing to its own place , all done with a muted energy ; whispers , jokes , little scolding asides — ‘ No , that goes in the other place ’ or reminisce how they had made the same mistake before in order to soften any harshness in the scold , bending low in apologetic laughter . |
| 16 | Perhaps they had attended the same college : the college whose colours were cerise and silver . |
| 17 | None of the pupils seemed to guess that they had heard the same speaker more than once . |
| 18 | They had conducted the same argument , at intervals , since the days after they had realised that they were isolated on an alien world . |
| 19 | Whatever divided them , they had to share the same planet ; and this dictated a ‘ constructive dialogue , a search for solutions to key international problems , for areas of agreement ’ . |
| 20 | Although Howard did n't actually have to come face to face with Brando , they had to share the same set . |
| 21 | He had kept the same job , they had lived in the same house , they had rented the same seaside bungalow for a summer holiday , year in year out . |
| 22 | If they had polled the same plurality as they commanded in 1987 , there would have been no overall party majority . |
| 23 | When the state took over recruitment under the Military Service Acts , the party continued to be involved : many agents were transferred to the army , where they continued to do the same job , and many party offices were lent to the government as recruitment centres . |
| 24 | The British were mistaken in supposing that they continued to have the same sovereign and therefore the same national identity vis-à-vis the outside world as the Canadians . |
| 25 | They have done the same thing to us as Ward did — they suspended us . |
| 26 | Having publicly committed themselves to extending legislation to protect residents in small private residential care homes , the Government left it to a Back-Bench Member to bring in a Bill , and they have done the same thing again . |
| 27 | They will need to check whether they have made the same amount of each and if they are not able to count , then they can correspond one-to-one ‘ tops ’ with ‘ bottoms ’ . |
| 28 | They include , to give just a few examples , realizing that they have re-read the same page of a book three times without taking any of it in ; nearly getting knocked over crossing the road ; yelling ‘ Tie ! ’ at a pupil they do n't know ; noticing that they are both reading a magazine and watching the television while having their evening meal ; spotting the line of empty wine bottles that has accrued since the weekend . |
| 29 | Not many industrial sites can say that they have serviced the same industry for over 100 years . |
| 30 | They they tended to say the same thing as the government , erm but recently Tory motions , in this council , have started to say the opposite of the government f for reasons which remain obscure to me and this is just another example . |