Example sentences of "[noun] do the same [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 So anglers need larger weights to do the same job — which could distract the fish .
2 On the other hand , the two British entries , Richardson and Hynds , worked together to take a substantial win in men 's K1 with Hemmings and Gilby doing the same thing in the ladies ' K1 event in a field of only three .
3 With everybody else who worked in shops did the same thing .
4 A footballer done the same thing .
5 ‘ Ron wants Ray to do the same sort of job , and there are definite similarities between the two , ’ he said .
6 You can buy a strong slim trowel to do the same job and there are several on the market .
7 Thus Indochinese with top marks from the Grandes Écoles in France returned home to serve under Frenchmen with much lower qualifications , or none at all , on a salary which was approximately a fifth of what would be paid to a European doing the same work .
8 The Shannon Development Company had a ‘ Matchmaker ’ service to match up the capacities of local suppliers with the needs of industrial purchasers , the Irish Development Authority ‘ Project Identification Unit ’ supplied local firms with information on the purchasing requirements of the multinationals , and the Irish Goods Council did the same thing .
9 Well the supermarkets do the same thing do n't they ?
10 We also have the paradox that ( as Posner , 1972 , p. 153 admits ) those same people who tend to argue that the common law promotes efficiency also reject the idea that regulatory law does the same thing .
11 In these circumstances I thought it would better serve the interests of air safety generally if a properly appointed accredited representative had the right to do the same thing .
12 Sometimes , when Henry was trying to write a letter of apology to the analyst for having quit , and wondering whether the man was all right — and when Finch was pondering the need to do the same thing — they would wander off together and watch Cecil coaching the people he referred to as ‘ the speaking parts . ’
13 And in a relatively small way , but when you think of the other universities doing the same sort of thing , in a larger way , we are offering this kind of opportunity to people .
14 ‘ No , that 's actually two guitars doing the same part , but very tight and panned left and right .
15 In the same day we went to Oulton board to do the same thing but in freezing cold water that was not as much fun as the survival tank .
16 Now each employee at British Steel needs only 4.8 hours to do the same job .
17 Detective Inspector Frank Wilkinson of Skelmersdale CID said : ‘ We want to find this man before he has a chance to do the same thing again .
18 Now ask a friend to do the same analysis of your attitudes , preferences and prejudices .
19 It is demonstrable that a suitable number of people cooperating on a task will achieve a better result than one person doing the same task .
20 I remembered my own boyhood watching cavalrymen sticking tent pegs at the gymkhanas , and tried knights on shining white chargers , complete with shining white bascinets , breastplates , leg armour and gauntlets doing the same thing to my inside , but they never really filled the role .
21 Three days later , three more officers did the same thing .
22 Although he was promoted to begin his search for Troy because of an obscure literary reference to the lost city , he was at heart doing the same thing as modern detectorists ; albeit , some might say , at a more scholarly level — searching for something lost and using his wits to find it .
23 Human beings have certain needs , certain problems , and I think that all religions in their own way have found ways of coping with those problems as different languages may differ grammatically , and they 're all trying to help people do the same thing .
24 Now that two hundred pound will only pay one man for a for a week to do the same thing .
25 There 's a lot of competition to get your space , specially with the Latins ; they 're not used to a woman doing the same job as well as they do . ’
26 Rarely will two people doing the same job deserve the same wage .
27 " Organisational " reasons appear to overlap with " economic " reasons and tend to be where the purchaser , in merging his work force with the vendors , dismisses a person because the purchaser will have too many people doing the same job .
28 It 's the same people doing the same job .
29 Now 125 people do the same job faster .
30 Operations staff do the same course , together with sales staff , sometimes competing against each other and sometimes working together .
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