Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] off for [art] " in BNC.

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1 Koeman should have been sent off for a deliberate foul on Platt ( who actually got 5.9 for the skill in making it look much worse ) .
2 A vast open space had been cordoned off for the day .
3 Volkov had been written off for the last five years .
4 Earlier , with just seconds remaining of normal time , Mark Hughes had been sent off for a second bookable offence and his team mates then produced a magnificent display of courageous football to keep themselves in this tie .
5 A short while after the alert had been called off for the missing officer , a CID friend contacted me to see if I could help with their ‘ enquiries ’ .
6 Some of the manuscript has been saved because it had been printed off for a friend to proof-read .
7 He said Mrs Mawdsley 's husband phoned him the following evening to say she had seen her doctor and had been signed off for a month .
8 I ca n't believe it , I 've been slagging off for the three weeks this is crap , this is really naff .
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