Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [verb] off in the " in BNC.

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1 Wednesday 's players are still furious over the controversial refereeing that saw striker David Hirst sent off in the 3–1 first leg defeat in Kaiserslautern .
2 Like when a drunken Richard Burton nodded off in the middle of a question ; the time Warren Beatty kept him waiting for an hour-and-a-half … and the day Robert Raging Bull De Niro looked as if he was about to punch him on the nose .
3 ’ You could hardly expect Portia Forbes to start off in the typing pool . ’
4 Mr. Gould went off in the morning to the Acteon [ sic ] Islands , which are about a mile distant from each other and at the distance of about 3 or 4 miles from Research Bay .
5 That night Stirling set off in the ‘ Blitz Buggy ’ with his usual crew of Cooper and Seekings , Ken Allot plus two corporals from the SBS with a folding canoe , and Gordon Alston .
6 Philip Schutte went off in the 18th minute after a tackle on Aadel Kardooni , and Wahl Bartmann followed in the 32nd minute with a shoulder injury .
7 Middlesbrough full back Gary Parkinson limped off in the final minute with an ankle injury .
8 The 22-year-old striker , a £20,000 capture from non-League Burton Albion , scored the 48th-minute winner that sunk Charlton , who had striker Garry Nelson sent off in the 69th minute for swearing at a linesman .
9 St Helens ' new county champion Greg Helsby leads off in the singles and Raife Hutt of Southport & Ainsdale is back in the side .
10 Inter , second at the start of play , crashed 3-0 at second-from-bottom Ancona and had former Italy goalkeeper Walter Zenga sent off in the first half .
11 Dave Weatherley strips off in the line of duty to put seven seriously warm bags to the test .
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