Example sentences of "[v-ing] do the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought ‘ What 's the other person going to put down , is he going to do the same ? |
| 2 | Mum is going to do the same with her sewing . |
| 3 | Having stolen the roof at Volx from Duboc and Agincourt from menestrel , is he now going to do the same with the Plage route ? |
| 4 | Damon and Lee lit up cigarettes of their own at St John 's Wood , which they placed between the doors , and Chris and Kevin were going to do the same at Baker Street . |
| 5 | Well Kerry 's going to do the same thing for twenty four . |
| 6 | Last season he was trained by Oliver Sherwood , who turned him into one of the best novice hurdlers and now Henrietta Knight will be attempting to do the same over fences . |
| 7 | During this period Cardinals were being bred by a well known fishkeeper who lived in Cornwall and this stirred my interest in attempting to do the same . |
| 8 | There was another face then , which did n't have to be invented : a moustached face that had recently and endlessly appeared on the television news , the face of a man who was accused of battering to death the nanny of his children , of attempting to do the same to his wife . |
| 9 | For example , if a business has been making integrated circuits by a special process for several years but has failed to apply for a patent , another business , wishing to do the same type of work , will be refused a patent on the grounds that the invention is not new . |
| 10 | With a tired little toss of the head , she turned away and sat down in an armchair , motioning for Golding to do the same . |
| 11 | A new wave of black British talent is now threatening to do the same — breaking out of a burgeoning club circuit and gearing up to colonise the nation 's TV sets |
| 12 | He says that they were only just recovering from making cuts last year , now they 're having to do the same again ; only this time there will be redundancies . |
| 13 | Paula Yates is positioned as the fluffy bimbo , and Muriel Gray is the one who stalked through the set being rather rude to the bands and deconstructing the whole female persona ; I think she 's trying to do the same now with the chat show . |
| 14 | ‘ America is so big that bands are n't surrounded by other bands trying to do the same thing . |
| 15 | But the idea of trying to do the same was impossible for Midlander like me — the nearest reservoir was over 20 miles away and after a couple of circuits would soon have lost its charm . |
| 16 | America 's airlines will not welcome another foreign rival trying to do the same — especially a state-owned carrier . |
| 17 | Omri Serlin notes in his ’ FT Systems ’ newsletter that IBM is out to establish CICS as an industry standard , positioning it to compete with USL 's Tuxedo , Transarc Corp Encina and NCR Corp 's Top End and clearly threatening USL which is trying to do the same for Tuxedo . |
| 18 | HP would know something about the exercise since it 's trying to do the same thing and the best it 's been able to come up with is the diskless 16Mb 715/33 for $5,700 or 525Mb 715/33 for $7,400 . |
| 19 | Such success for developing countries is not always the case , even in the same industry ; Bolivia has had a sorry experience in trying to do the same as its Eastern rivals , but has suffered from a critical lack of expertise . |
| 20 | It 's trying to do the same work with the smaller amount of blood as it did with the full amount , ten pints perhaps reduced down to seven , got to keep pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , because that little bit of blood has got to get round and do a lot more work now , okay , so the blood 's rushing round and the heart is pushing faster because it 's having to , because it 's not enough of the , not so much pressure there , that 's why it feels weak , weak and fast , okay ? |
| 21 | Last night , Sam had tried to manipulate Clare , and now her grandmother was trying to do the same thing on his behalf . |
| 22 | As I say the present day er premier just now is actually trying to do the same thing as a repeat performance |
| 23 | The other manufacturers are trying to do the same but I think some of them are a bit behind Rover and they 've got to catch up . |
| 24 | and you 've got to try and get round them , oh god , there 's about six thousand trying to do the same thing . |
| 25 | You 're trying to do the same thing but whereas in feudal exploitation |
| 26 | Then he reached for the brandy and tipped a measure into his own cup before offering to do the same with Shiona 's . |
| 27 | poisoner who kills one of his nieces for profit after effecting an insurance on her life , and is planning to do the same to her sister , but is foiled by the cunning of the dead girl 's lover , Meltham , assisted by Mr Sampson , the manager of a City insurance office . |
| 28 | Hundreds more are now planning to do the same . |
| 29 | Frito-Lay recently slimmed its product line ; now its main rival , Borden , is planning to do the same . |