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

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1 Any mulm and detritus can be syphoned off at the same time .
2 And you go out and do the same thing again and you 're getting le let off for the same thing all the time and you think you 're going to get away with it all the time .
3 A ruling yesterday by the Accounting Standards Board means any premium or discount when a company repurchases its own debt must be be written off in the same year it is incurred .
4 Hewlett-Packard Co is well ahead of the pack in fitting out its Unix machines with the kind of operations management systems that mainframe users expect , but Sun Microsystems Computer Corp is galloping off down the same path and has gone to Legent Corp for an agreement under which Legent will convert Legent 's system management tools to run on Sparcsystems under Solaris Unix .
5 Eleven tricks made for a very good score , as several other declarers had actually contrived to go off in the same contract .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 After the furriers we all trooped off to the same dentist who X-rayed our teeth which was unusual in Britain then .
9 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 .
10 ‘ Two Turkish teams have had three players sent off in the same European match .
11 Bit of a coincidence there , it went off at the same time as this ha as the tape stopped
12 We start off with the same two words every time .
13 Two beetles start off from the same point in opposite directions .
14 Dominic Woosey purveys his own brand of ambient House , lightly peppered with acidic loops , whilst Cosmic Baby turns the acid machines up full and demonstrates why Germany is about to take off in the same way that Belgium did last year .
15 Another man who ran off at the same time , Stephen O'Mara , was yesterday still on the run .
16 She looked at him wide-eyed for a second , then ran off in the same direction as Isay .
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