Example sentences of "[noun] do the same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | With everybody else who worked in shops did the same thing . |
| 3 | A footballer done the same thing . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Well the supermarkets do the same thing do n't they ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Three days later , three more officers did the same thing . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Now that two hundred pound will only pay one man for a for a week to do the same thing . |
| 17 | In its place there stands a new Ballistic Missile Defence Organisation which employs the same people to do the same things with the same money — $1.8 billion requested for the next year . |
| 18 | I remembered them again when Tony Jacklin did the same thing at the very next Open — — and , amazingly , at the 17th again . |
| 19 | NBT audiences are ‘ not content to look at rows and rows of identical girls doing the same thing , ’ he maintains . |
| 20 | That 's how people live these days , you know , my daughter did the same thing with her husband , you know , they 're in a |
| 21 | It 's funny because Dinda does the same thing . |
| 22 | Boats from Bodrum quayside do the same thing , though it 's difficult to tell if you 're letting yourself in for a one way job , or a round trip including a meal at some distant restaurant ! |
| 23 | California 's Apple Computer did the same thing in a bigger way last October , when it halved the price-tag on its popular Macintosh model . |
| 24 | In an interview with the Cumhuriyet newspaper of March 29 President Özal of Turkey said that since unification Germany had sought " to intervene everywhere … to prove that it was a major power " and that " in the past Hitler 's Germany did the same thing , although in other ways " . |
| 25 | I was n't too happy about getting down the rock-climb , but luckily there were two other fellows doing the same thing so we egged each other on . |
| 26 | But essentially all these tests do the same thing because they 're seeing whether the parameters that we estimate over the entire sample are robust over all sub-samples , right , we ca n't , we would n't bother testing over all sub-samples though we can do , it 's just if we have good reason to believe that behaviour in one sub-sample different for behaviour in another E G use er Chow test or equivalently a dummy variable on the intercept to see whether there was any change . |
| 27 | His puppies do the same thing — and it 's not as if they can copy him , because they never see him . |
| 28 | I stuck it for about a year and then moved on to another , slightly better hotel to do the same thing for marginally more money . |
| 29 | Another tom did the same thing , supplying his female with food while she was unable to leave the nest during the first days after producing her litter . |
| 30 | Those coming in from the sea do the same thing in reverse , leaving the wheel with a sideways dive when they are within a few yards of their nest-hole . |