Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] the same [noun] " 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 Only afterwards is it plain that , for the most part , they 've given the same answers they 've supplied to the press for years .
9 They 've done the same thing .
10 And obviously therefore , cos they obviously therefore , they 've got the same improvements on here as well .
11 They 've got the same squad of fifteen who did so well last week .
12 W three , no I , I think that , that , that must be cos they 've got the same G here
13 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 .
14 And yet they 've got the same amount of time
15 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 .
16 I think people should stick with what suits them , even if they 've had the same thing for years .
17 At Tiverton in 1809 they had claimed they had received the same rate for 300 years !
18 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 .
19 Over the years they had attended the same victuallers ' functions , and on every occasion Harcourt had kept very much to his own table .
20 Perhaps they had attended the same college : the college whose colours were cerise and silver .
21 None of the pupils seemed to guess that they had heard the same speaker more than once .
22 The two men exchanged experiences and found that they had heard the same noises of heavy breathing and the kick on the door .
23 They had conducted the same argument , at intervals , since the days after they had realised that they were isolated on an alien world .
24 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 ’ .
25 Although Howard did n't actually have to come face to face with Brando , they had to share the same set .
26 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 .
27 If they had polled the same plurality as they commanded in 1987 , there would have been no overall party majority .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 They have done the same thing to us as Ward did — they suspended us .
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