Example sentences of "would [verb] [verb] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to see the same thing happen to them . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I would like to do the same thing to them |
| 4 | I would like to stay the same age so I could play football . |
| 5 | Tordjman expects software products to grow faster this year than engineering and systems integration , but he would like to maintain the same division of revenue for the next few years . |
| 6 | The very next day , Sunday , I would have to attend the same chapel in its religious function , and the fact that the previous evening it had been a battleground for people who were supposed to be friends and allies , while the ‘ enemy ’ got on with his job uninterrupted outside , led to a more or less permanent confusion in my mind , which I now believe to be totally justified , between violence and religion , and between fact and fancy [ or film ] . |
| 7 | The newsreader would have achieved the same effect if he had suddenly broke into song . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | He would have posed the same question if he had been sitting in her position . |
| 11 | Had the Republican candidate in 1980 been an ideologue , he would have suffered the same fate as Barry Goldwater in 1964 ; if , by some fluke , he had been elected , he would have been denied cooperation by congress and would have been drummed out of office in 1984 . |
| 12 | By that they mean that multiplying them together in either order would have to give the same result . |
| 13 | Lord Taylor , the Lord Chief Justice , sitting with Mr Justice Judge and Mr Justice Hidden , said they could not be sure that the original trial jury would have reached the same verdict if it had heard evidence which had since come to light . |
| 14 | ‘ Anyone in her shoes would have done the same thing . ’ |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | It eventually emerged , after dogged questioning in parliament , that the PSA would have done the same job for £1,500 . |
| 17 | To make assurance doubly sure-and also to begin a move in the direction of greater picturability — let us now see how Schrödinger would have obtained the same result . |
| 18 | There were a few who would have asked the same question , looking at Joan Rush , senior project officer with the fund , a prime mover in the group which has beavered away at the subject to bring it into the mainstream of policy and practice . |
| 19 | Surely any woman would have reacted the same way on discovering a supposed admirer was in reality only after her possessions ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ In a subsequent editorial the newspaper fiercely attacked the CPS decision … and questioned whether the CPS would have made the same decision if the woman had been a black girl caught in exactly the same way on Broadwater Farm . |
| 22 | First , is it right that a remedy should be refused because the respondent would have made the same decision even if it had not acted illegally ? |
| 23 | So perhaps they would have made the same mistakes as well. , He believes his most serious mistake was wanting to get things done in a hurry . |
| 24 | Even a government with substantial majority support would have encountered the same opposition . |
| 25 | Mr Edmonds said all companies would have to pay the same base rate so they could not complain of unfair competition . |
| 26 | You would have to be a professional cobbler-up of sit-coms to give much credence to the available scenarios , but just in case , I suppose they are that : a ) the tests were so incompetently performed that even a baboon 's sample would have produced the same reading as was clocked by the three athletes identically ; b ) the three runners were having a joke at the testers ' expense ; c ) the German trio was deliberately testing the vigilance of the drug monitors at a relatively out-of-the-way venue , for reasons of their own ; d ) that the samples were not urine at all but a draught of refreshing Lucozade , tested in error . |
| 27 | He was disgusted by Pete , but they would have to share the same space for years . |
| 28 | All the same , I doubt very much that when I was in a comparable situation I would have had the same faith and determination that Tom did . |
| 29 | ‘ A little thing could have set him on his way any time these past three years , and it would have had the same ending . ’ |
| 30 | Many set the odds on Rank achieving his ambitions very low indeed , seemingly believing that , as Eric Ambler was later to remark , ‘ a policy of selling British cars to America with their steering wheels on the right would have had the same chance of success . ’ |