Example sentences of "[art] [noun] do the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a stinging attack , Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown mocked Mr Major 's habit of looking on at soccer and cricket matches — and said the Premier did the same when it came to the economy . |
| 2 | It was a pity he did n't get the opportunity to do the same against France in the final . |
| 3 | There was silence until the soldiers had passed , and Collins slowly withdrew his hand from his coat pocket ; glancing through the sliding glass panel , Patrick saw the driver do the same . |
| 4 | The driver did the same . |
| 5 | If traditional metaphor brings together two semantic fields by means of a similarity of signifieds , then the pun does the same by virtue of a homonymy or similarity of signifiers . |
| 6 | I mean this is personally for our place , and I 'm sure all the shops did the same . |
| 7 | What a person does , that person is , yet whatever I do , the Monster does the same , and more . |
| 8 | Well the supermarkets do the same thing do n't they ? |
| 9 | I recall some of the chaps doing the same at Oundle . ’ |
| 10 | Mildred began to cry , and as she lifted her hand to wipe away the tears she watched with horrified fascination as the reflection did the same . |
| 11 | I only wish I had the courage to do the same as her . |
| 12 | What must be hurting him today is that others did not have the courage to do the same to him . |
| 13 | How long would it be , Carew wondered , before the Hacketts and the Merricks and the Townshends did the same ? |
| 14 | Smaller animals on the grasslands prefer to hide away when they are not feeding ; so the prairie dogs , which are rodents , live in vast , colonial underground burrows in North America ( with burrowing owls for occasional company ) , and the sousliks do the same in Asia . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Rather than face up to the horrendous alienation implied by such strong electoral support for Sinn Fein , the Government has closed its eyes and now compels the population to do the same . |
| 18 | And as he passed along the line , the men near him cried , ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ afresh , and their comrades in the distance did the same . |
| 19 | Once the whole company have learned the words they are divided into two groups with one side of the room singing and doing the actions to the first verse and the other doing the same for the second . |
| 20 | ‘ No doubt you 'd have revelled in the opportunity to play Mr Wonderful on the slopes if the roads had n't been blocked , but frankly I did n't see any reason for giving you the chance to do the same here . |
| 21 | Similarly it might be proper to consider as ‘ Pacific ’ only those Americans who live west of De Soto , Missouri ( the median point of the population , moving slowly ever-westward as the people do the same ) , or , in Australia , those east of Alice Springs . |
| 22 | Thorfinn held his big gelding hard-reined , and saw the mormaers doing the same . |
| 23 | Care of the unfortunate was a general duty which people met with generosity and tenderness , and they were not surprised when the state did the same . |
| 24 | Society imposes an obligation to look after his parents , as a debt owed to them for his upbringing , and owed to society for passing on to his children the obligation to do the same for him . |
| 25 | Another woman , in a different firm , who had been twenty years in the trade ( so must have been one of the original beginners ) reported in similar terms : " in the regular bookwork , the girls do the same work as the men , but they do not lift their own " formes " and " chases " . |
| 26 | The two boys stood back to back , the girls did the same . |
| 27 | The man did the same again as he turned the paper , revealing to Mungo the front page with its lurid headline : ‘ BIRD 'S HEAD CLUE TO GIRL 'S DEATH . |
| 28 | One after another , the rest of the men did the same . |
| 29 | put in a great deal of their time erm going to work and that could be working for er a European or an American right , er some sort of help in the house , or in the garden or whatever , so you had the men doing the same sort of tasks the housework as it were for Europeans and Americans and the women looking after the , the economic development of that little |
| 30 | 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 . |