Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Distillery boss Billy Hamilton fears the worst after Heath was assisted off in the second-half with a torn calf muscle . |
| 2 | Matthew was sent off to the yard , but Riddle was n't there and Matthew reckoned he had n't been there . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Five minutes later skipper Alan Kernaghan was carried off with a knee injury and Middlesbrough delayed the introduction of substitute Jon Gittens for five minutes . |
| 5 | Then Gannon struck in the 81st minute and added the third with a penalty after Exeter 's Kevin Miller was sent off for a second bookable offence in the 89th minute . |
| 6 | And as Switzerland began to run riot , Gough was sent off in the 84th minute for handling the ball as Knup threatened to break through again . |
| 7 | But a shot from Ripley levelled the scores and , after United defender Penney was sent off for a professional foul , Payton , a £750,000 signing from Hull , scored from the resulting free-kick . |
| 8 | Rowledge sliced a penalty wide of the target before having better luck with a kick just inside the half-way line , and there was a real setback for the visitors when Cook was carried off with a leg injury . |
| 9 | Tony Gorman was sent off after a brawl involving up to 12 players at The Oval . |
| 10 | There was a mix-up over payment for a meal at a café , and Chapman was hauled off by a gendarme to the police station . |
| 11 | Middlesbrough fans feared the worst when central defender Nicky Mohan was sent off for a second bookable offence . |
| 12 | The Viking Hotel in York was cut off by the River Ouse after rising water stopped work on a new pumping station designed to stop flooding . |
| 13 | The Surrey team 's goalkeeper Adrian Blake was helped off in the 57th minute , with his team already 3–0 down , after being apparently struck by a coin thrown from the crowd . |
| 14 | The disease has now reinvaded the American tropics , whence it had been absent since migration from Asia was cut off by the world upheavals of 1914–18 . |
| 15 | Alan McDonald was sent off for a second bookable offence as Queens Park Rangers lost 2–1 to Tottenham . |
| 16 | Humphreys was hoisted off into a private room and blows were exchanged behind closed doors . |
| 17 | A minor but telling incident : a big army exercise scheduled for last week in which French soldiers were , for the first time , to do mock battle alongside British troops in West Germany was called off at the last moment because of East Germany 's election . |
| 18 | He no longer needed a tutor : Walahfrid was paid off with the abbacy of Reichenau , where he could help hold Alemannia against Louis the German . |
| 19 | Hirst was sent off in the first leg , for the first time in his career , and Bright he was signed too late to be eligible . |
| 20 | Foulds went off 15 minutes later with a neck injury and No 8 Brooks was helped off with a leg injury shortly afterwards . |
| 21 | But ten minutes later , as Frau Nordern was drifting off into an uneasy slumber , Herr Nordern was still at his desk , staring into the darkness , the end of his cigar glowing like a red warning signal as the snow drifted down on to Berlin , and his family , and the city , slept . |
| 22 | But Ward was stretchered off with a broken leg after a challenge by Mark Atkins , who was booked for the tackle . |
| 23 | Newcastle striker David Kelly was sent off for a foul on Michele Menolascina and the fracas broke out . |
| 24 | Warrington maintained their revival with a convincing 30–18 victory over St Helens on Saturday even though Kevin Ellis was sent off for an alleged trip . |
| 25 | Ratcliffe , who is in the Welsh squad for next week 's World Cup qualifier against The Netherlands was carried off after a fifth-minute collision with Geoff Pike . |
| 26 | Even when Dave MacDonald was sent off for a second bookable offence the blues were incapable of taking the advantage . |
| 27 | Brentford striker Gary Blissett was sent off for the foul that resulted in Uzzell going to hospital for an operation to rebuild his cheek on December 14 . |
| 28 | The women complained to the station master — and Knowles was taken off at the next station . |
| 29 | TRANMERE defender Tony Thomas was carried off with a broken leg after only two minutes of this Anglo-Italian Cup-tie last night . |
| 30 | After breakfast in the hotel , Louisa was whisked off to a London Studio to meet photographer Paul Mitchell and the styling team . |