Example sentences of "[noun] do [adv] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er if if it 's appropriate for North Yorkshire to apply environmental constraints within the whole of its area , I 'm not talking about particular districts but in in the whole of its area , then it is appropriate for Leeds and Bradford and the metropolitan districts to do exactly the same thing . |
| 2 | Although women were in practice doing exactly the same work as certain categories of men , they too perceived the division of labour as a gender division , and took as their point of reference for equality the " all-round comp " , whom both masters and men held up as the exemplar , rather than the humbler linesman . |
| 3 | The German artillery did just the same thing , as the following account from the British side shows : |
| 4 | The damage to the integrity of the US banking system caused by the feckless management of the savings and loans system — which before US financial deregulation did much the same job as our own building societies — has been so extensive that its impact often goes unstated . |
| 5 | How sad to see one of our senior trade union officials doing exactly the same in 1992 . |
| 6 | And assistant boss John McVeigh reckons the 24-year-old does just the same job at Broomfield as Rangers ' European Cup hero . |
| 7 | The people murdered last week were every bit as innocent as were the people in the Shankhill Road , and I would be certain that the families of the people in the Shankhill Road would be horrified that the murder of their loved ones would be used as an excuse as an excuse to do exactly the same to other innocent people . |
| 8 | Brigadier Hillary-Jones has nephews and nieces doing much the same . |
| 9 | But grypesh do much the same as we do : they hole up and wait for the weather to pass . ’ |
| 10 | Had not the medieval burial guilds done precisely the same ? |
| 11 | This publications audit will often turn up other interesting facts that you might have been unaware of like two departments doing exactly the same thing through different outside agencies or short runs being hammered out on page printers when they could have been more effectively produced on a photocopier or by a print shop . |
| 12 | Pedal steel players do much the same kind of thing , but they 're lucky because they 've got loads of strings to play around with ; when you 're a guitar player and you 're down to six , you have to break it down and come up with some simpler versions . ’ |
| 13 | Music does just the same , though obviously points of high climax are by no means always needed . |
| 14 | Other clubs did much the same things for provincial leaders ; it was to the Constitutional Club that Salvidge went when in London and it was there that he stayed . |
| 15 | At the other end of the line Frau Nordern did much the same , then stood up and stuffed her brief-case with various documents . |
| 16 | It is made all the more aggravating when people living inside the city know how little it costs the authorities outside the city to do precisely the same job . |
| 17 | ‘ Terrorism is to be condemned from whatever quarter and in an effort to do so the same rules of descriptive terminology should be applied to all victims , ’ Mr McMichael added . |
| 18 | Bees do much the same . |
| 19 | As long as your amp is high enough to support your guitar properly then GuitaRest does exactly the same job as a guitar stand — except that it 's neater , lighter , takes up less space , costs less than most and also incorporates a recess to accommodate your armoury of assorted plectra . |
| 20 | I realize that there may well be seven others doing exactly the same thing , but I believe that God will help the most sincere and the most deserving . |
| 21 | ‘ Almost all instruments do exactly the same thing . |
| 22 | Horses do much the same thing except that , probably for reasons of historical accident , they run on only one toe instead of two . |
| 23 | He , sh she ought to learn to sh she 's , they was all on about how Shrimpy ca n't stick up for himself , and then flaming Emma does exactly the same but worse cos she gets Scott to do it for her . |
| 24 | My right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Transport is doing all that he can within Europe to achieve the speedy adoption of a Europewide directive , on which Great Britain has been in the lead , to get our Western European car manufacturing colleagues to do exactly the same . |
| 25 | ’ — to have a creep in the family doing exactly the same thing . ’ |
| 26 | America 's carmakers did much the same in the 1980s by failing to respond to the growing Japanese competition in America 's small-car market . |
| 27 | Pierpont Morgan did much the same . |
| 28 | Always circulate after the meeting your understanding of what has been agreed , even if the other party does exactly the same . |