Example sentences of "did the same [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did the same but mine did n't bolt like a shot from a sling ! ’ |
| 2 | He could only imagine girls in the evening when they all walked along and Marie stopped in front of a shop window to see that her clothes and hair were as she wanted and they all came up behind her and did the same so they were like a group photograph on a record sleeve , wiggling their fingers and poking out their tongues and saying ‘ Yoo-hoo ’ to their reflections . |
| 3 | The pharmaceutical industry unwisely did the same and instituted an expensive advertising campaign . |
| 4 | He hesitated , then did the same and withdrew into a corner . |
| 5 | She passed the streamer to another woman who did the same and each woman who received it made a statement of her sorrow , culminating with a young woman who spoke , with tears running down her face , of her fears for her children . |
| 6 | ‘ I see , ’ she said and then she bowed , very slightly , and Rose and Grace did the same and then all three moved out of the drawing-room , upright and daunting . |
| 7 | Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz expressed his country 's readiness to destroy its chemical weapons stocks on condition that Israel did the same and also signed the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty , to which Iraq was already a party . |
| 8 | He would provide food for his visitor and Gina did the same for hers . |
| 9 | He did the same as me ; gave a poor reason and then a good one that was embarrassing , to stop us seeking further . |
| 10 | It did the same as you did . |
| 11 | That why our team did the same as you . |
| 12 | Yes , Mrs Taylor , Cilla Black has had a lor ra luck to get out of Liverpool when she did the same as you . |
| 13 | One of the footballers did the same as Evelyn . |
| 14 | Ashton did the same when Daphnis competed for Chloë 's attention in his interpretation of Ravel 's Daphnis and Chloë . |
| 15 | He did the same when she had friends there . |
| 16 | In a stinging attack , Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown mocked Mr Major 's habit of looking on at soccer and cricket matches — and said the Premier did the same when it came to the economy . |
| 17 | It was as if he was playing an elaborate game , and had to wait there until it was finished ; they did the same when they played Roundheads and Cavaliers in the old quarry . |
| 18 | Olive baboons in Gabon defaecate in their home areas , thereby concentrating edible-fruited species , and the Liebermans speculate that the early hominids did the same because there is evidence that there were proto-gardens around occupation sites and that animals were unaware how edible plants came to be there ; a phenomenon known as the ‘ Eden Syndrome ’ . |