Example sentences of "[noun sg] do the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A footballer done the same thing . |
| 2 | You can buy a strong slim trowel to do the same job and there are several on the market . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Now ask a friend to do the same analysis of your attitudes , preferences and prejudices . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Now that two hundred pound will only pay one man for a for a week to do the same thing . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | The DNA-copying mechanism does the same kind of error-correction automatically . |
| 16 | But a Japanese man doing the same work in the same factory gets paid 30 per cent more . |
| 17 | Male workplaces are even more segregated ( 81 per cent of the husbands interviewed in the same survey in 1980 had no colleagues of the opposite sex doing the same type of work ) . |
| 18 | That 's how people live these days , you know , my daughter did the same thing with her husband , you know , they 're in a |
| 19 | 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 ! |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A study of a small savings bank in Massachusetts found that its branch-based salesmen sold more than three times as many policies as agents hired by the bank to do the same job , and five times as many as agents working directly for an insurer . |
| 22 | While a modem acts as a two-way interface for text and numeric data between a computer and a telephone line , a codec does the same job with multimedia information and especially motion video . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Varnish does the same job , but you do n't need to keep polishing afterwards . |
| 27 | Yet in Japan this has not been the only reason for being able to use less energy to do the same job . |
| 28 | As discussed in Chapters 3 and 5 , whole group work rarely means the whole class doing the same thing at the same time . |
| 29 | One person who spends much of his time doing the same thing is Master of Wine Tim Hanni from the Beringer Vineyards School for American Chefs . |
| 30 | , my mother does the same thing , no . |