Example sentences of "do [adv] [art] same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Provided you know how to use it , a cheap hand-held version will do much the same thing . ’ |
| 2 | Crows may do much the same sort of thing as buzzards and eagles but , since there are so many of them , the luckless crows are ignored . |
| 3 | and as the same thing applies to the knee exactly the same thing , wound there you keep the knee bent a little bit and you can do exactly the same bandage like a figure of eight , okay ? |
| 4 | You would do exactly the same thing . ’ |
| 5 | Now they 're helping us do exactly the same thing a couple of hundred years on . |
| 6 | It 's erm in fact a quote from Wilson , the founder of Socio-biology , the mo in other words modern er Darwinism as oppo as , as a applied to animal behaviour and Wilson 's point in saying that sex is an anti-social force in evolution was to suggest that what is really happening is that if natural selection is a question of the reproductive success of individual genes , then individuals should be motivated to produce as many copies of those genes as they possibly can , and that will inevitably bring them into competition with other members of the species who wan na do exactly the same thing . |
| 7 | Mind you , I suppose if the others were in they 'd do exactly the same thing would n't they ? |
| 8 | I do n't mind but that getting a like when Shirl first came she was to get everything done exactly the same time |
| 9 | He must have done exactly the same thing as I did when the panic hit him . |
| 10 | I would have done exactly the same thing in her shoes , ’ says Joe . |
| 11 | It would have made it more difficult , but the way that Maxwell used to involve himself in bulk transfers , you know and move , move two hundred pensioners from there to there and er no money followed and this sort of thing , I think that er that he could of quite frankly done exactly the same thing and we really feel that the , that the role of the pension regulator and the and the opposing role with I M R O that , that you really if we 're not careful , we 're going to put in another layer of bureaucracy and have a pension regulator who 's got the task of of checking a , a hundred and twenty eight thousand pension funds , when really there 's probably out of those a hundred and twenty eight thousand , ninety-nine point five per cent of probably being very well well run and , and quite safe and what , what we ca n't really see in the report is a is a method of identifying the determined fraudster at a at a very early stage , you know and we 're just terribly disappointed that er that Good has just thrown the whole of , of the matter back at I M R O who we feel have proved to tha that I do n't think they 're up to the task , I think that the that the whole question of er of the power of a self regulatory body which to us works on blowing the whistle , you know the whole the whole effect of a self regulatory body is that it 's members that it , it 's really like a club is n't it , you know and we 're all members of this club and if one of us er is gon na do something wrong , then the rest of us are gon na have to pay for it . |
| 12 | Apart from that they could 've sat on a wall and done exactly the same thing , she was in the street . |
| 13 | It was a great experience but I 'm not sure I 'd do precisely the same trip again . ’ |
| 14 | Like the French prisoners in the Napoleonic wars , used to do exactly the same thing . |
| 15 | First she had allowed herself to be manipulated by Ace , and now her father was trying to do exactly the same thing . |
| 16 | And er if if it 's appropriate for North Yorkshire to apply environmental constraints within the whole of its area , I 'm not talking about particular districts but in in the whole of its area , then it is appropriate for Leeds and Bradford and the metropolitan districts to do exactly the same thing . |
| 17 | A symmetric arms race is one between competitors trying to do roughly the same thing as each other . |
| 18 | It is made all the more aggravating when people living inside the city know how little it costs the authorities outside the city to do precisely the same job . |
| 19 | [ He will say later , ‘ If I 'd relaxed the standard there I 'd have had umpteen other people knocking on the door wanting to do precisely the same thing to save on trade effluent charges . ’ ] |
| 20 | In their different ways , Hanson and ICI are doing much the same thing : running a portfolio of businesses . |
| 21 | Hogarth was doing much the same thing , though for the less fashion-conscious end of the market . |
| 22 | Under the scheme holders of government bonds could choose to exchange them for South Sea Company shares , and the government would pay interest on these bonds to the South Sea Company at a lower rate than it paid previously — the South Sea Company was doing much the same thing as the East India Company , providing the government with a loan at a reduced rate of interest in exchange for overseas trading privileges . |
| 23 | When he arrived he was doing much the same thing since he was n't as naïve about the values of the secret world as she assumed : assuring himself there was nothing to suspect and being careful not to find any signs of it . |
| 24 | For the priests , in fact , were doing exactly the same trick , and probably by exactly the same means , as the old East Anglian and Scottish horsemen who made out and actually believed that the horse 's immobility was the result of some secret and magical device they had resorted to . |
| 25 | Although women were in practice doing exactly the same work as certain categories of men , they too perceived the division of labour as a gender division , and took as their point of reference for equality the " all-round comp " , whom both masters and men held up as the exemplar , rather than the humbler linesman . |
| 26 | This is the reason that the ‘ equal-value amendment ’ was passed , which means that a woman seeking equal pay can compare herself with a man doing work of similar value , and not the more stringent condition of a man who is actually doing exactly the same work . |
| 27 | After many months of careful observation he realized that he was doing exactly the same thing while talking , but to a much lesser extent , and that was why his speaking habits had gone undetected . |
| 28 | I realize that there may well be seven others doing exactly the same thing , but I believe that God will help the most sincere and the most deserving . |
| 29 | Rock'n'roll has become so totally predictable and everybody has been doing exactly the same thing now for , like , 25 years . |
| 30 | ‘ His people are justifiably condemning Riddick Bowe for flouting the rules , but they are doing exactly the same thing . ’ |