Example sentences of "he was [verb] off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the midst of his second year he was sent off to the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth , for a crash course in everything Welsh prior to his investiture as Prince of Wales in the summer of 1969 . |
| 2 | It came as no surprise when he was sent off for a vicious headbutt to the hapless Hudd . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Mike Marsh became the third Anfield star to be shown the red card in successive European Cup Winners ' Cup matches when he was sent off in the closing stages of the defeat against Spartak Moscow on Wednesday . |
| 7 | In the following year a BBC man who came to Bishopthorpe to have a brains trust in the house was shocked to discover that there was no television set in the house and told him that he was cut off from the experience of millions of his countrymen . |
| 8 | Right-winger Alan Linton was the first casualty when he was stretchered off with a double break to a leg after 16 minutes . |
| 9 | Arsenal have slipped to sixth after three successive Premier League defeats , and they will be without England full-back Lee Dixon for at least a month after he was carried off with a knee injury . |
| 10 | Bjornebye , signed by manager Graeme Souness for £600,000 last month , will be out for at least three weeks after he was carried off on a stretcher with concussion while on international duty against China . |
| 11 | He was carried off on a stretcher when the game was only 10 minutes old , after he had flown into a tackle from behind on Dean Saunders . |
| 12 | He was carried off after a fifty fifty tackle with Stuart McCall . |
| 13 | He was taken off by a helicopter from RAF Valley , Anglesey and flown to hospital in Barrow-in-Furness . |
| 14 | He was pissed off about a cameraman who kept stalking his every move ; filming for use on the large video screens positioned on either side of the stage . |
| 15 | Then , like a whirlwind , he was storming off through the garden , heading back towards the villa . |
| 16 | He was carted off to the Scottish Military Hospital in Alexandria , while the remainder of the group made a second jump the following day without any further serious mishaps . |
| 17 | Then he was striding off towards the design-room , a subdued and anxious Lisa at his heels . |
| 18 | and he was fobbed off with an under-secretaryship ; in 1922 he worked actively to bring the coalition down . |
| 19 | Fortunately , his employer was lenient and he was let off with a caution . |
| 20 | He was brought off before the end of a rare defeat and the emotional scars were apparent for weeks after that . |
| 21 | Between Czecho and Hungary , he decided he was going off for a couple of days . |
| 22 | She knew that he had tried to give her the impression that he was going off on a promiscuous adventure and expected this to arouse in her both admiration and jealousy , but as Lydia 's misdemeanours were more of the spirit than of the flesh she found promiscuity not merely sinful but foolish and disgusting . |
| 23 | By this time Angie had entered his life and she was going off with the ladies and he was going off with the boys — and that 's the way it was . ’ |