Example sentences of "he [modal v] do the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If yer miss payin' 'e 'll do the same as 'e did wiv us . |
| 2 | I have tried to persuade our excitable friend that he should do the same . ’ |
| 3 | When Harold Wilson put in Lord Hill of Luton to act as chairman of the BBC ( a Conservative who , as head of the Independent Television Authority had ‘ made sure that their treatment of news and current affairs does not offend the Establishment ’ , in the view of Richard Crossman ) , he remarked , ‘ Charlie Hill has already cleaned up ITV and he 'll do the same to the BBC now I 'm appointing him chairman . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm sure he 'll do the same for us in county cricket . |
| 5 | And he 'll do the same to achieve commitment and to communicate — he 'll never use committees . |
| 6 | Do you think , you see you 've got to get another bloke and bloody great , he 'll do the same thing . |
| 7 | They go off to see just what she 's on about because she 's told them , he 'll do the same for you , what he 's done for me , he can do for you as well ! |
| 8 | His group he 'll do the same test as the other group and it 's mainly based on vocabulary . |
| 9 | Maybe he might do the same on political reform . |
| 10 | I dropped some change to a lone mandolin player doing a slow-tempo ‘ Sweet Georgia Brown ’ , partly because he was good and partly because he might do the same for me someday . |
| 11 | Mind you , it would be more comforting if he could do the same with those who are a dozen years younger than he is . |
| 12 | From over George 's shoulder stared the portrait of a general whose handling of an attack in the South African war had caused so many casualties to his own brigade that he had immediately been promoted away to see if he could do the same thing with divisions and corps . |
| 13 | He 'd do the same for us if we were in trouble . |
| 14 | That would give him a week 's grace at least , and then he 'd do the same thing again in some other place to stay untraceable . |
| 15 | She could only hope he 'd do the same . |
| 16 | His reply was he 'd do the same — so I knew from that moment onwards he was the man for me . ’ |
| 17 | He used to do the same everyone else ! |
| 18 | He did not hide and he said that he would do the same again . |
| 19 | First , through the City with a policeman holding up the traffic with an impassive countenance which implied that he would do the same for the Seventh Day Adventists , the Anti-Vivisection Society or the Paddington Communist Party . |
| 20 | Shop manager Mohammed Afzal is angry that newsagents can sell groceries but he can do the same with papers . |