Example sentences of "did [adv] the same thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other clubs did much the same things for provincial leaders ; it was to the Constitutional Club that Salvidge went when in London and it was there that he stayed . |
| 2 | The occasions that stand out in the three decades of our post-imperial era are : Duncan Sandys ' 1957 decision to recommend the end of National Service , which almost halved the Army ; the Kennedy/Macmillan Polaris agreement at Nassau in 1962 that led to the RAF losing responsibility to the Royal Navy for the British nuclear deterrent ; Denis Healey 's scrapping of the TSR2 in 1965 , which threatened to ‘ unhorse ’ the RAF 's knights ; his cancellation of the aircraft-carrier replacement programme in 1966 , which did much the same thing to the Royal Navy ; and John Nott 's attempt in 1981 to maintain the strength of the Rhine Army and RAF Germany at the expense of our maritime capability . |
| 3 | Jazzbeaux heard they did much the same thing in Jap corp boardrooms . |
| 4 | ‘ The second alleged that I took the players off to Henlow Grange for four days before the Cup-tie with Charlton last season without his say-so … although we did exactly the same thing for the previous round . |
| 5 | ‘ I did exactly the same thing last year in LA , ’ he revealed . |
| 6 | He then did exactly the same thing , spluttering and spraying the remains of his drink down his shirt . |
| 7 | ‘ Because it did exactly the same thing to me . ’ |
| 8 | They should be aware that Mr beat Mr Brown to the punch and did exactly the same thing a few months ago . |
| 9 | until she got onto that crossbar and then she just flew straight back and did exactly the same thing all over again and I just thought sod it ! |
| 10 | The German artillery did just the same thing , as the following account from the British side shows : |
| 11 | The French did precisely the same thing . ’ |