Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ And she has made the same promise to me that I made to my mum and dad . ’ |
| 32 | Lord Carrington 's view has been that premature recognition would be a mistake , and Mr. Cyrus Vance — the Secretary-General 's representative — has made the same point . |
| 33 | As juniors the two American teenagers were mentioned in the same breath as Andre Agassi and Michael Chang , but neither has made the same impact as yet . |
| 34 | Then someone else wants to buy the same book — what do you do ? |
| 35 | At a time when English officialdom has been worrying about the fact that some among their top youngsters are playing more golf than is good for them , Stevely has had the same feelings where his own pupils are concerned . |
| 36 | In more recent times , Luciano Berio has used the same technique in his Sinfonia , Labirintus H , and electronic works , so that we seem to be hearing different music — symphonic , jazz , military , vocal , etc. — as if radios were tuned to different stations and the music merging , conflicting , and changing . |
| 37 | He is such fun , the intelligent person 's humorous read à la David Lodge ( Penguin has used the same cover illustrator , Paul Cox ) . |
| 38 | My second book , although it has used the same idea of telekinetic powers , has a completely different story line . |
| 39 | I have never known a situation where a doe has used the same breeding stop twice . |
| 40 | Q. Blanket weed caused me tremendous problems in my Koi pond last summer , and I want to avoid the same thing happening this year . |
| 41 | The Stick has got the same range as the piano and I can jump four octaves with one hand . |
| 42 | According to Shaun , ‘ Yes Please ’ has got the same production on it as ‘ hardcore , rock smokin' ragga music — it 's more leather than loops , harder than the artist ’ , which , to be fair , at the moment does n't account for much . |
| 43 | He has watched the same badger set for 46 years , he says , and with an average badger lifespan of under ten years , that means several generations . |
| 44 | The manager who has watched the same side go out of the Scottish Cup to the Premier Division 's bottom club ( Falkirk ) while inflicting all manner of wounds on their championship prospects saw his players do well enough not to have their efforts diminished by dwelling on Rangers ' inertia . |
| 45 | The manager , who has watched the same side go out of the Scottish Cup to the Premier Division 's bottom club ( Falkirk ) while inflicting all manner of wounds on their championship prospects , saw his players do well enough not to have their efforts diminished by dwelling on Rangers ' inertia . |
| 46 | It may well have been the case that at this time , only a few months into the venture , the women were being paid much the same wage as boy apprentices at the same stage , and this would therefore explain why the delegate meeting decided merely to try to apply the same rule as , in theory at least , limited apprentices " numbers . |
| 47 | ‘ I tried to put the same sentiment into that landscape as I put into the figure : the convulsive , passionate clinging to the earth , and yet being half torn up by the storm . ’ |
| 48 | who comes two years later when he has to do the same price again and it costs him money or her . |
| 49 | Lyn de Alwis now proposed to use the same technique to persuade captured wild elephants to walk quietly into the back of a truck . |
| 50 | And she wants to do the same things as us . |
| 51 | AutoDesk Inc 's multimedia revenues , which grew by 76% last year , are expected to duplicate the same success this year , president and chief executive Carol Bartz told the Hambrecht & Quist technology conference . |
| 52 | ‘ Then you came into my life and tried to do the same thing ! |
| 53 | They have followed each other up the ladder , but whenever he has reached the same rung she has gone one better . |
| 54 | The Czechoslovak voucher scheme , which will apportion shares in state enterprises to the general public , was received with scepticism by the Poles ( who want to do the same thing a different way ) and with disdain by the Hungarians ( who think state enterprises should simply be sold ) . |
| 55 | You will then also need to drill the same contrast in all other positions in which it occurs . |
| 56 | He promised to adopt the same approach to councillorship ‘ which has seen me through as a councillor for 20 years with 11 of these as county councillor . ’ |
| 57 | In a more modern and subtle way , Singer has proposed the same extension of a recognition of interest to animals so that sentient animals share a community of interests with humans . |
| 58 | has experienced the same thing as we all have . |
| 59 | Mr Alan Hogan , aged 28 , has spent the same number of years with Tioxide . |
| 60 | So the crucial question is not whether party programme A is preferred to party programme B ; the issue is whether we want to keep the same government for the next five years or whether we want a different one . |