Example sentences of "[vb past] off [prep] [art] same [noun] " 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 | After the furriers we all trooped off to the same dentist who X-rayed our teeth which was unusual in Britain then . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Bit of a coincidence there , it went off at the same time as this ha as the tape stopped |
| 5 | Another man who ran off at the same time , Stephen O'Mara , was yesterday still on the run . |
| 6 | She looked at him wide-eyed for a second , then ran off in the same direction as Isay . |