Example sentences of "[was/were] send off [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The match turned ugly in the dying minutes when two-goal Tosh of Arbroath and Fife goalkeeper Charles were sent off for violent conduct .
2 Messengers were sent off to sympathetic neighbours , and , amongst them , Hugh Woodburn of Loudoun Mains sent his younger brother , George , to ask John Nisbet of Hardhill to come with all haste .
3 Towns go all out for City Challenge cash Multi-million pound City Challenge bids were sent off by hopeful Cleveland towns this week .
4 SPURS shares were sent off in 1990 when they were suspended by the Stock Exchange .
5 This request from AFHQ to SHAEF was sent off at 1917 hrs , only forty minutes after the despatch of the Robertson signal .
6 The third reason why Dzerzhinsky was sent off to distant Siberia was purely political , and had little to do with the railways .
7 THE FA have suspended Middlesbrough full back Jimmy Phillips for three matches after he was sent off for violent conduct in an off-the-ball incident against Southend last Saturday .
8 Midfielder Willie Falconer is lined up to deputise for Phillips , who was sent off for violent conduct against Southend United .
9 Rovers Defender , Dave Higgins punched the ball out ; he was sent off for deliberate hand ball as Jim Magilton slammed home United 's second .
10 CLIVE ALLEN scored twice , but Trevor Morley was sent off as European football last night returned to Upton Park for the first time in 11 years .
11 Bremner once tried to rile an opponent by drawing attention to his pock-marked face by shouting ‘ Go and get it filled in with polyfilla ’ , but the crunch came when he was sent off in 1967 for fouling the Nottingham Forest keeper Grummitt .
12 Wednesday approached a difficult job well and scored two good-looking goals , but the truth is the tie was really lost in Kaiserslautern , where goalscorer David Hirst was sent off in bizarre circumstances .
13 Chris Burton , a Featherstone substitute , was sent off after 32 minutes for a high tackle on Craig Izzard , and visitors Leeds went on to win 22-20 .
14 MILLWALL boss Mick McCarthy criticised Malcolm Allen who was sent off after 13 minutes of their 3-1 defeat at Watford .
15 Again the Cobblers held them to a goalless draw after being reduced to ten men , but this time it was not through injury : half-back Manning was sent off after twenty-five minutes for tripping Forest 's West from behind .
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