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Example sentences of "done [art] [det] thing " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	And as you ladies and gentlemen now are thinking of retiring as I have done the least thing you want to be bothered about is rules and regulations .
2	They have done the same thing to us as Ward did — they suspended us .
3	If he was in her place , he might have done the same thing .
4	If one of my staff had done the same thing I do believe I 'd have fired him .
5	‘ Anyone in her shoes would have done the same thing . ’
6	Now he wished he had waited a year and a half and done the same thing here .
7	He 's done the same thing with the torture scene .
8	Many people confronted with a crash have done the same thing .
9	The fact that we 've both done the same thing — I was an actress although I 'm a writer now — is totally unimportant .
10	But I 've , what I 'm saying Rod is I 've done the same thing
11	No , we have done the same thing as before with the only difference that we calculated the potential instead of the electric field .
12	I 've had Banville thoroughly checked out , and I know he 's stayed at two other hotels on the island and done the same thing . ’
13	They 've done the same thing .
14	And her sister who lives next door but one from her mums , she done the same thing .
15	‘ The whole town pretended to be scandalised , but if the boot had been on the other foot — if Sidney , or anybody else for that matter , had done the same thing to Riddle — they would have had a good laugh and it would have been looked upon as good business . ’
16	As a child he had done the same thing , as a game ; something to make life more interesting , give It some purpose , then he had begun to have dreams about it , to come to realise that it was real , that he had had an insight when he started to play the game , He had to do it now ; it felt horrible and uncomfortable when he tried to stop , even just to see what it was like walking down a street breathing " normally " .
17	All quite in order , of course , he has done the same thing at least twice before .
18	He 's only thirty-four , and he 's done the same thing all over the Far East , taking over struggling and usually amateur or pirate radio stations like this one once was , and putting in people like me who pull commercial sponsorship because we draw listeners .
19	Idly I wonder if she 'd have done the same thing had the play been Shakespearean : ‘ Now is the winter of our discontent … but leaving aside discontent for the moment I want you all to put your hands together for good old birthday boy Barry in Box B. All together now , Happy Birthday to you … ’
20	So they er would have done the same thing in those days , the children , and erm it fitted in to the easter holiday time to have the actual ploughing match , you see ?
21	Having publicly committed themselves to extending legislation to protect residents in small private residential care homes , the Government left it to a Back-Bench Member to bring in a Bill , and they have done the same thing again .
22	It appears we 've done the same thing with the brick and the flints .
23	Ven had done the same thing yesterday .
24	He probably thought I was punching it because he had done the same thing .
25	‘ I know a guy who has been fined three times and he 's done the same thing again and got another fine .
26	Then you went on to the next thing you all done the same thing over and over again .
27	Owen is making the point here that the sun once woke this man up , and every morning it has done the same thing , dutifully , as it had woken the rest of the world up too .
28	A footballer done the same thing .
29	He eyes me , thinking that , although I might have done a few things in the Arctic , I am still a tiny lad without any fat ; he decides that it will be just a few minutes .
30	Looking back , they would have done a few things quite differently , but they certainly did not conform to the view taken by some authorities that they encountered , that they are children who have ruined their lives and wasted their education .