Example sentences of "[verb] off [prep] [art] [adj] minute " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was expecting you , of course , but I must have dropped off for a few minutes . ’ |
| 2 | Complexity is no disadvantage , so long as the report can be produced and the dust shaken off in a few minutes . |
| 3 | Middlesbrough full back Gary Parkinson limped off in the final minute with an ankle injury . |
| 4 | The pressure paid off in the 58th minute when central defender Whelan , scorer of a late winner at Southend on Saturday , rose to direct a far-post header over Stowell , in the Wolves goal , from one of Thompson 's many excellent dead-ball crosses . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Nor has the Department decided whether it is going to contribute towards the considerable capital cost of new computers , causing doctors to put off to the last minute a decision on which system to choose . |
| 7 | Dunstable withdrew yesterday from the FA Cup , but face disciplinary action after their remaining players walked off in the 38th minute of the tie at Staines after the referee Stephen Head sent off a third member of their team . |
| 8 | A press conference Mr Kaifu had scheduled for Wednesday evening to explain what the government had decided was called off at the last minute . |
| 9 | Arrangements to introduce the new system of central scheduling were to be announced this week , but were called off at the last minute . |
| 10 | Many of the rebels , after a planned night attack had been called off at the last minute , had gone off into Inverness in search of food or were sleeping exhausted , unwilling to be roused , when news arrived of Cumberland 's approach . |
| 11 | Sheringham , who cost £2 million from Millwall 12 months ago , was lined up for Spurs a fortnight ago but the deal was called off at the last minute . |
| 12 | However , this too was called off at the last minute , apparently because of opposition outrage over a massacre at Mbuji-Mayi in central Zaire . |
| 13 | Both were reported to have agreed , but the talks were called off at the last minute . |
| 14 | But the meeting was called off at the last minute and now Caldaire hopes to hold talks on Tuesday , February 25 . |
| 15 | They were guilty of lax marking as Scunthorpe took the lead from two crosses aimed without challenge , and weakened by Baker 's sending off in the 36th minute , a pathetic flourish of petulance . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Referee Alf Buksh ignores the crowd 's calls for Hughes to be sent off after a 69th minute foul . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Julian Dicks , the West Ham captain , was sent off in the 61st minute for a late tackle on Wise and the referee , Alf Buksh , needed a police escort at the end of the tie , which West Ham won 1-0 . |
| 21 | By then Cambridge were down to ten men after skipper Danny O'Shea had been sent off in the 70th minute for a second bookable offence . |
| 22 | He experienced the joy of scoring Omagh 's first two goals in the opening period but had the opposite feelings of emotion when he was sent off in the last minute . |
| 23 | Daniel Amokachi , of Bruges , was sent off in the 77th minute for a foul on Bremen goalkeeper Oliver Reck . |