Example sentences of "[vb past] do [art] same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then you came into my life and tried to do the same thing ! |
| 2 | Then he kissed me , and for a moment I remembered a play we were in together , when we 'd done the same sort of kiss , starting with his hand under my chin and just our lips lightly together , and then developing into a full clinch ; but by the time we were deeply embraced I had forgotten the play and could think only that this was like coming home . |
| 3 | The Brasserie was launched as a fully fledged operation expected to do the same level of business as L'Auberge from the start . |
| 4 | ‘ We agreed to do the same number of hours … ’ |
| 5 | Rupert Murdoch decided to do the same thing with The Times . |
| 6 | They , indeed , were the first animals to master flight and they did so some two hundred million years before birds managed to do the same thing . |
| 7 | If one of my staff had done the same thing I do believe I 'd have fired him . |
| 8 | ‘ The whole town pretended to be scandalised , but if the boot had been on the other foot — if Sidney , or anybody else for that matter , had done the same thing to Riddle — they would have had a good laugh and it would have been looked upon as good business . ’ |
| 9 | As a child he had done the same thing , as a game ; something to make life more interesting , give It some purpose , then he had begun to have dreams about it , to come to realise that it was real , that he had had an insight when he started to play the game , He had to do it now ; it felt horrible and uncomfortable when he tried to stop , even just to see what it was like walking down a street breathing " normally " . |
| 10 | Ven had done the same thing yesterday . |
| 11 | He probably thought I was punching it because he had done the same thing . |
| 12 | ‘ I AM talking about a man that has done 26 years behind bars and if he had done the same crime today he would have got 10 years and would have got out five years ago ’ — actor Mike Reid on Reggie Kray . |
| 13 | When the state took over recruitment under the Military Service Acts , the party continued to be involved : many agents were transferred to the army , where they continued to do the same job , and many party offices were lent to the government as recruitment centres . |