Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [verb] the same " in BNC.

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1 ‘ If Cllr Murphy is aware of any specific incidence of malpractice or wrongdoing , he should detail the same in writing to either the chief executive or the independent consultants appointed to look into this matter , ’ she said .
2 I have tried to persuade our excitable friend that he should do the same . ’
3 The Bishop ordained that the Vicar of Hailing should receive as his portion £5 10s yearly and that he should have the same acreage of land as the vicars of old possessed and also " all oblations what so ever within the bounds and limits of the parish , all the tithes of hay , lambs , wool , mills , calves , chicken , pigs , geese , ducks , eggs , bees ' honey , wax , cheese , milk , milk-meats , flax , hemp , pears , apples , garden herbs , pigeon houses , and merchandise , fisheries , pastures , onions , garlic and saffron , also the tithes , sheaves cultivated either by plough or spade and also the tithes of wood for fuel , coppice wood , thorns , rushes , faggots and fardells , within the bounds of the Parish , all of which the vicars and his successors shall have "
4 What was more , she had an idea that he must feel the same , because he in his turn talked to her quite naturally , without the slightest attempt to entertain or amuse her .
5 During a match when a player goes down injured he must make the same decision but this time in the thick of the action with the crowd chanting and the referee looking at his watch .
6 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 . ’
7 ‘ I 'm sure he 'll do the same for us in county cricket .
8 And he 'll do the same to achieve commitment and to communicate — he 'll never use committees .
9 Do you think , you see you 've got to get another bloke and bloody great , he 'll do the same thing .
10 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 !
11 His group he 'll do the same test as the other group and it 's mainly based on vocabulary .
12 He covets your practice , and in order to get it he 'll play the same trick on you that he played on me . ’
13 Maybe he might do the same on political reform .
14 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 .
15 John Coffin , she felt sure , would not ; he might think the same things , but would not say them in that way .
16 However , he could achieve the same result by giving less attention to each patient .
17 He planned to pursue integrative schemes as a private citizen and it was thought doubtful whether he could achieve the same effect in that capacity .
18 Mind you , it would be more comforting if he could do the same with those who are a dozen years younger than he is .
19 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 .
20 Challenged to explain how he could mean the same , since he could n't conceivably experience the Sun in the sky on the Sun , he might , but very implausibly , produce the following justification for the generalisation of time-of-day language to the Sun .
21 I said that challenged to explain how he could mean the same , since he could n't conceivably experience the Sun in the sky on the Sun , he might produce an argument from analogy to justify the generalisation of time-of-day language to the Sun .
22 Similarly , challenged to explain how he could mean the same by ‘ pain' in ‘ Someone else is in pain' as in ‘ I 'm in pain' , since he could n't conceivably experience someone else 's pain , he might produce an argument from analogy to justify the generalisation of pain-language to others .
23 But Creggan could not escape , for he remembered Minch 's command to try ant help her , and anyway he could feel the same longings she felt .
24 ‘ You 're mine ! ’ he said thickly , and she held his gaze in a moment of wild hope that he could feel the same , then remembered the fight he had had to get her , and the prizes he was now about to collect .
25 He 'd do the same for us if we were in trouble .
26 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 .
27 She could only hope he 'd do the same .
28 His reply was he 'd do the same — so I knew from that moment onwards he was the man for me . ’
29 He used to do the same everyone else !
30 He did not hide and he said that he would do the same again .
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