Example sentences of "have do the same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | All quite in order , of course , he has done the same thing at least twice before . |
| 2 | Owen is making the point here that the sun once woke this man up , and every morning it has done the same thing , dutifully , as it had woken the rest of the world up too . |
| 3 | I 've really had to work hard to get where I got to and when I fight a black guy , I know that he 's had to do the same thing , I think : ‘ Well , he 's had it as hard as me ’ and little zest goes out of your punching , I just want to beat him on points . |
| 4 | If he was in her place , he might have done the same thing . |
| 5 | ‘ Anyone in her shoes would have done the same thing . ’ |
| 6 | Idly I wonder if she 'd have done the same thing had the play been Shakespearean : ‘ Now is the winter of our discontent … but leaving aside discontent for the moment I want you all to put your hands together for good old birthday boy Barry in Box B. All together now , Happy Birthday to you … ’ |
| 7 | So they er would have done the same thing in those days , the children , and erm it fitted in to the easter holiday time to have the actual ploughing match , you see ? |
| 8 | Erm that the time has now come to accept that we do have to do the same things and it has to be in black and white and it has to be E E C wide . |
| 9 | Even to play with a pick I would have to do the same thing , like Phil Lynott did , whereas to play with my fingers in a heavy metal kind of way , as I normally do , I have to have the bass quite low or else my wrist gets mangled up and I start having problems with tendonitis . |
| 10 | But I 've , what I 'm saying Rod is I 've done the same thing |
| 11 | They 've done the same thing . |
| 12 | It appears we 've done the same thing with the brick and the flints . |
| 13 | If one of my staff had done the same thing I do believe I 'd have fired him . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 " . |
| 16 | Ven had done the same thing yesterday . |
| 17 | He probably thought I was punching it because he had done the same thing . |
| 18 | They have done the same thing to us as Ward did — they suspended us . |
| 19 | Many people confronted with a crash have done the same thing . |
| 20 | No , we have done the same thing as before with the only difference that we calculated the potential instead of the electric field . |
| 21 | Having publicly committed themselves to extending legislation to protect residents in small private residential care homes , the Government left it to a Back-Bench Member to bring in a Bill , and they have done the same thing again . |
| 22 | It 's the monotony I do n't like — it 's repetitive and you have to do the same things each day . |
| 23 | And then you have to do the same thing again for the second line look |