Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] off for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Volkov had been written off for the last five years . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | Clarke was the luckiest player on earth not to be sent off for the clearest professional foul imaginable on Strachan after 69 minutes . |
| 4 | In a million bathrooms , pores breathed sighs of relief as the trowelled-on layers of moisturiser , foundation , blusher , shaper , powder , eye liner , eye shadow , mascara , lashes , and lipstick were scraped off for the first time in decades . |
| 5 | Below the cheek the head tapers down and is rounded off for the lower jaw ; the mouth finishes up about 2¼in wide . |
| 6 | In a game against Aberdeen , he was sent off for the 13th time in his career for fouling John McMaster , and the Pittodrie player was taken to hospital with neck injuries . |
| 7 | When Bud moved south to West Bromwich Albion in 1976 , he found himself in a deep trouble after a game against Brighton , when he was sent off for the unpardonable offence of kicking a referee . |
| 8 | Second-row Jackson was sent off for the first time in his career along with South Wales Police hooker Colin Hillman after the two were caught wrestling off the ball . |
| 9 | GARETH CHILCOTT , the England prop who was sent off for the fourth time in his playing career with Bath when the champions suffered a League reversal at Gloucester last month , is still awaiting news of his punishment from the Somerset disciplinary committee . |
| 10 | Jones , who was sent off for the sixth time in a five-year career against Blackburn on his Wimbledon return two weeks ago , hosts a controversial video that makes heroes of men of great skill who play to hurt and unveils a code that includes : |