Example sentences of "have [verb] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | He invited people to sign a declaration : ‘ I , the undersigned , promise to learn ( it ) if it appears that 10 million people have given the same promise . ’ |
| 2 | However , they are so often held back with comments such as ‘ you are too young ’ , ‘ we can not trust you ’ , ‘ your time will come ’ — time and time again I have heard the same complaint by those who have achieved their goals at an early age . |
| 3 | Both have developed the same unusual method of trapping prey — they dig small pitfall traps for it . |
| 4 | The same kind of reasoning , on a smaller scale , leads to the conclusion that the common ancestor of the oil-bird and the cave swiftlet also did not use echolocation , and that these two genera have developed the same technology independently of each other . |
| 5 | So one seems to have perfect control ; both mice have received the same number of shocks , but one learns how to avoid the shock , the other can not , for there is no escape ; the number of shocks it receives is entirely governed by the behaviour of its learning partner . |
| 6 | Do you think Mummy will say I have to wear the same dress ? |
| 7 | When you all have to wear the same uniform , there is n't a great deal you can do to make yourself stand out from the crowd , but we did our best , washing and setting each other 's hair and sharing out what precious bits of makeup we owned . |
| 8 | From those thousands who have trodden the same paths in earlier times , the energy is inexhaustible . |
| 9 | So we sought wiser men than ourselves who have trodden the same path he proposes to take . |
| 10 | Other investigations have addressed the same question in a clinical context . |
| 11 | ‘ But I think the average employee in the public sector , who has a job , knows perfectly well that , in the public services nowadays , you have to accept the same sensible level of settlements that people do outside , where things are going hard . |
| 12 | Subsequent government documents , emanating from both the Department of Education and Science ( i.e. Secretaries of State and HMI ) and the Department of Industry , have pursued the same theme and in 1985 Better Schools contained the following statement : |
| 13 | The position on the particular issue to which the hon. Gentleman refers is that for some years now we have pursued the same policy that the money has been , in the formula applied , additional and is reflected in higher public spending plans , and that it is for the Commissioner to honour the pledge that we have had for years past . |
| 14 | Kate and Diane have booked the same venue with its easy access just minutes off the M5 motorway and superb views across the Somerset countryside . |
| 15 | and that 's what and I completely the checkout girl because I , I know her quite well , we always have to guess the same one , we have a bit of a laugh and I said do you want to be erm part of a national survey on s this English er on spoken English and she said oh , alright , so I said there you are your on |
| 16 | For Europe , the nineteenth century was the great time when languages were identified and codified in single forms , minority languages in part eliminated , consciously national literatures and musics invented , and the territory mapped ( appropriately described as a ‘ father ’ or ‘ mother ’ land , even though very few peoples have occupied the same territory for more than a thousand years ) . |
| 17 | I have noticed the same response with sensitive people on their very first flight when they are trying out the elevator . |
| 18 | But she tells the programme : ‘ It worked for me and other people have said the same . |
| 19 | And so many of my friends have said the same . |
| 20 | So I have written the same column for 15 years . ’ |
| 21 | They have done the same thing to us as Ward did — they suspended us . |
| 22 | But I have deliberately left out in both those chapters the actual details of weight lost or gained , and have done the same in my own story at the beginning of the book . |
| 23 | Many people confronted with a crash have done the same thing . |
| 24 | Latvia , Lithuania and now Kirgizstan have done the same . |
| 25 | While Japanese firms have established R&D centres in America and Europe , foreign firms have done the same in Japan . |
| 26 | No , we have done the same thing as before with the only difference that we calculated the potential instead of the electric field . |
| 27 | But with the other companies that have been established , and all water companies have done the same , the way to increase profits is to go into er a business which you 're in competition with other businesses and you stand or fail as to how well you do on that . |
| 28 | Many of my hon. Friends have done the same . |
| 29 | In preparing my statement so as to include another recent event , I was following the behaviour of my predecessors , who have done the same on such occasions . |
| 30 | I have argued with my district health authority for many years I know that many hon. Members have done the same with theirs — because it has for various reasons shifted the problem of elderly sick people to the private sector . |