Example sentences of "[noun prp] to do the [adj] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	Erm , can you get Jeff to do the first soldering for you ?
2	Thomas stopped and gestured Corbett to do the same .
3	Tim Moulds will ask Leo Bashyam to do the same .
4	‘ Ron wants Ray to do the same sort of job , and there are definite similarities between the two , ’ he said .
5	For the time being Macmillan advised the cabinet that Britain should try to conciliate Egypt and persuade Washington to do the same .
6	Not quite a woman — because I wanted to do things with Gittel that only a man was supposed to want to do ; not quite a man — because I wanted Gittel to do the same things back to me . ’
7	A few weeks later John asked the notorious rock manager Allen Klein to do the same .
8	Henry himself marched into Anjou to carry out a similar policy and sent Geoffrey to do the same in Brittany .
9	Instead of acting instantly in the ‘ greater interested of the game ’ and convincing Dubroca to do the honourable thing — which would have cut short the entire argument — they tried to sweep the story under the carpet .
10	Cecil urged Asquith to do the same , but , Chamberlain said , Asquith ‘ would not allow ( him ) to develop this idea , which he rejected with indignation and even with scorn . ’
11	Heseltine needs Thatcher to do the decent thing and step down this summer , or invite him back into the cabinet .
12	He engaged Jonathan Otley to do the scientific work necessary for his guide books , and John Gough made the botanical notes required .
13	In the end , and because Lord Hunter was presented to us as a man of independent judgement , we decided to do so , and advised Meehan to do the same .
14	Ar-see-nee-yo coaxes boxer Tommy Hearns into imitating James Brown , gets Bobby Brown to do the Running Man , eats fried pies packed by Malcolm Jamal-Warner 's loving grandma .
15	We have tightened controls on the import of wild birds and will press the EC to do the same .

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