Example sentences of "did [adv] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the other end of the line Frau Nordern did much the same , then stood up and stuffed her brief-case with various documents . |
| 2 | Having disposed of Chertsey and Witney , they did much the same in the fourth qualifying round against Marlow , equalising at home in the 82nd minute and winning the replay 2-1 with a goal in the 90th . |
| 3 | Having disposed of Chertsey and Witney , they did much the same in the fourth qualifying round against Marlow , equalising at home in the 82nd minute and winning the replay 2-1 with a goal in the 90th . |
| 4 | The damage to the integrity of the US banking system caused by the feckless management of the savings and loans system — which before US financial deregulation did much the same job as our own building societies — has been so extensive that its impact often goes unstated . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | America 's carmakers did much the same in the 1980s by failing to respond to the growing Japanese competition in America 's small-car market . |
| 7 | Pierpont Morgan did much the same . |
| 8 | Jazzbeaux heard they did much the same thing in Jap corp boardrooms . |
| 9 | Possibly the latter was due to our handling of it — we were accustomed to pressing woollen garments to within an inch of their lives and we did much the same to our synthetic garments . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Did not the former Prime Minister memorably state that there was no such thing as society , only individuals ? |
| 12 | He 'd been buying his clothes at Acme Attractions up the road — a stall which generally did exactly the same as Malcolm only six months later , and were quite open about it . |
| 13 | In Australia , he had rejuvenated a sport that had been declining for years ; in England , he did exactly the same , leaving people exhilarated by his team 's play wherever they went and creating a great new surge of interest in the game . |
| 14 | In a moment he reappeared and did exactly the same . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ I did exactly the same thing last year in LA , ’ he revealed . |
| 17 | He then did exactly the same thing , spluttering and spraying the remains of his drink down his shirt . |
| 18 | But someone says oh this is a bit messy having these two pipes , could n't we just have one pipe that did exactly the same job . |
| 19 | ‘ Because it did exactly the same thing to me . ’ |
| 20 | They should be aware that Mr beat Mr Brown to the punch and did exactly the same thing a few months ago . |
| 21 | 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 ! |
| 22 | did exactly the same , and I walked around with scabs two inches long . |
| 23 | The German artillery did just the same thing , as the following account from the British side shows : |
| 24 | Were n't they coming , then , and if they were n't , why did n't the all clear sound ? |
| 25 | As for Pepys , there are curious parallels : both maverick MPs who did almost the same job trying to reform Britain 's armed forces — Pepys more successfully at sea ; both irreverent , yet painfully conscious of their need to keep their patrons sweet ; both hedonists fascinated by sex , class and gossip . |
| 26 | The French did precisely the same thing . ’ |