Example sentences of "[was/were] sent 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 . |