Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] off [prep] [art] same " in BNC.

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1 That is to say , if one made the same measurement on a large number of similar systems , each of which started off in the same way , one would find that the result of the measurement would be A in a certain number of cases , B in a different number , and so on .
2 Similar doubts were expressed about the study of the environment , which took off about the same time , but this seems to have gained a much firmer academic foothold , despite the fact that such courses range from the physical to the social with , as one CRAC Degree Course Guide put it , almost nothing in common between these two extremes .
3 Another man who ran off at the same time , Stephen O'Mara , was yesterday still on the run .
4 We start off with the same two words every time .
5 They set off from the same place but , like pieces of something that had just exploded , they each took a different course across the lawn .
6 Bit of a coincidence there , it went off at the same time as this ha as the tape stopped
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