Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] off [prep] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The women complained to the station master — and Knowles was taken off at the next station . |