Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] to do [art] same " in BNC.
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| 1 | His achievements to date were listed : charges laid on the railway in the Tobruk area on the night of 14 October ; a failed attempt to do the same near Sidi Barani which resulted in the death of the patrol commander , Lieutenant Shorten ; two further breaks in the railway on 24 October ; nine breaks on 29 October , and finally another attack on the track on 31 October . |
| 2 | You can buy a strong slim trowel to do the same job and there are several on the market . |
| 3 | The German Foreign Minister , Herr Hans Dietrich Genscher , is due in Tbilisi this week to do the same , followed later this month by his French counterpart , M Roland Dumas . |
| 4 | He proposed to draw up what could be learned of the history of this area , and hoped that the Earl of Northumbria would ask his old men to do the same , when a meeting might be called to their mutual benefit . |
| 5 | Now each employee at British Steel needs only 4.8 hours to do the same job . |
| 6 | Conspiratorial imagery was used : ‘ The Zionists continue to attack and criticize Mialster Farrakhan and they pull the strings of their Black and White political marionettes to do the same . ’ |
| 7 | Basically this involves using the right foot to draw the ball into the post from the left side of the field and the left foot to do the same from the right side . |
| 8 | So anglers need larger weights to do the same job — which could distract the fish . |
| 9 | Two elderly ladies getting out seemed to be having difficulty in trying to persuade a large dog to do the same . |
| 10 | She asked for identification and we 'd urge all parents to do the same . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | On several occasions , we have invited former members of staff to launch previews , and I am sure it is a good idea to do the same at Lyons farm . |
| 13 | Such a taboo breaker is dangerous to the rest of the members of the society because they have strong unconscious desires to do the same thing . |
| 14 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |
| 15 | ‘ We will continue … to pursue steadily the path of co-operation with China and we look to the Chinese side to do the same . |
| 16 | Yet in Japan this has not been the only reason for being able to use less energy to do the same job . |
| 17 | Accordingly Baldwin packed his suitcase , instructed his parliamentary private secretary to do the same , and set off yet once more in the small black car . |
| 18 | there is a tendency to standardize different time-scales — but in fact different musical types , and sometimes different pieces within a type , may sell at different rates over different time-spans ; thus the Beatles ' ‘ Ca n't Buy Me Love ’ sold a million copies in a week while Ken Dodd 's ‘ Tears ’ took five months to do the same ( Harker 1980 : 98–9 ) . |
| 19 | When Merry blows it in the Shire the revolution against sloth and shabbiness and Saruman- ‘ Sharkey ’ is on : no doubt Tolkien would have liked to be able in his own person to do the same . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It used to be common for agreements for the supply of crude oil to do the same , but these have gone out of fashion in recent years with the volatility of oil prices : they may reappear if the oil price settles down . |
| 22 | The Lettrists and the Situationists had used ‘ pre-existing elements ’ for their own ends , and so the editors of the Boston text and the curators of On the Passage have , they feel , a certain entitlement to do the same . |
| 23 | Whereas I had seen the doctor who used the charity format as something of a villain , Bulgakov portrays himself as a hero in these stories and plainly expects his Soviet readership to do the same . |
| 24 | If , on the other hand , a pragmatist judge almost invariably applies his new rules retrospectively and encourages other judges to do the same , this will achieve a further , very great benefit for their community . |
| 25 | Instead he raised his talons and struck at the wire mesh in his own turn , which only provoked the other eagle to do the same again , the sounds of both of them increased by the flapping of their great wings and the crashing of their beaks on the cage walls as they vainly tried to get at each other . |
| 26 | The important thing was to do what you thought was right , leaving other people to do the same . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm willing to abide by all laws — and I 'll try to persuade other Romanies to do the same , but I 'm not likely to succeed until my people can see these laws protecting as well as persecuting them . ’ |
| 28 | She counselled other women to do the same : ‘ You can make your womanhood a sort of external conscience to them . |
| 29 | We look to the British car manufacturing industry and its European counterparts to do the same as quickly as possible . |