Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] the same to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Walden ( builder ) was instructed to alter the same to an amended tone selected by the Committee ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ concluded that the submissions raised in it were not of sufficient substance to justify referring the same to the judiciary or altering the first review date . |
| 4 | She ground a half-smoked cigarette into the ashtray , and McLeish was left with the feeling that she would willingly have done the same to the live flesh of Angela Morgan , if available . |
| 5 | It is challenging Lotus for pole position in spreadsheets , and , with its new Access software , hopes to do the same to Borland in the database market . |
| 6 | Which of us on finding our car aerial snapped off by a vandal have not momentarily wanted to do the same to his neck ? |
| 7 | Serious violence first erupted on the evening of the second day of the trial ( 28 February ) , when a contingent of Sacheverell 's supporters smashed the windows of Dr Burgess 's meeting house in Lincoln Inn Fields , and then proceeded to do the same to his house . |
| 8 | Tom imagines doing the same to larger and larger animals , all of whom look equally shocked . |
| 9 | And a thousand men stayed , they were boasting , to level the church and the hall and the monastery and then leave to do the same to Scone and to Perth . |
| 10 | The implication , whether private or public , was that somehow pressure had been exerted by the masters to get the women to sign ( we have already noted that counter-allegations were made that the men had done the same to their women supporters ) . |
| 11 | I 've said the same to meself , but the way we are fixed … well , we could n't do much else . ’ |
| 12 | But , I mean Rover have done the same I know for a fact that Rover have done the same to some of their blokes , |
| 13 | Forced to reply the following July to acknowledge a sum of fifty francs from Theo , he said grimly that he was writing ‘ with some reluctance ’ because ‘ you have become a total stranger to me , and I have become the same to you . ’ |
| 14 | As the war proceeded , Iraq attempted to do the same to Iran 's terminals and bring Iranian exports to a halt . |
| 15 | 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 . |