Example sentences of "were [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought we were on for charades . |
| 2 | All the families were on for except the three weeks holiday during the year they were marooned on these islands all the time . |
| 3 | There was sweet nothing in the way of nectar and what duped flowers had burst out of the ground were in for a shock when the frosts came . |
| 4 | Whitton 's second , in the 38th minute , must have warned the crowd nearly 1,000 below the Recreation Ground 's 5,000 capacity that they were in for a dispiriting night . |
| 5 | The omens were bad , and when the Hammersmith show eventually got going it seemed we were in for an all-time rock ‘ n ’ roll disaster . |
| 6 | Yet he got off to a good start against New Zealand , and no one in England could have been in any doubt that even without Lloyd around their heroes were in for a tough time . |
| 7 | He told them they were in for a terrific all singing , all dancing , all laughing evening in the company of a galaxy of West End stars , and he informed them , after a bow to the front row where the CO and his wife sat among the senior officers of the Battalion : |
| 8 | Whatever you picked , you were in for it . |
| 9 | I knew we were in for an enjoyable day as soon as I heard Nick Faldo say , ‘ Have you heard this one , Nick ? ’ |
| 10 | SHOPPERS at Bordon 's new Somerfield store were in for a surprise on Saturday , when the supermarket staged a Disney fancy dress competition . |
| 11 | If you were in for 9 in the morning , you were out at 9.30 and the other fellow must not book in till 9.31 a.m . |
| 12 | We were in for the worst . |
| 13 | There was no rest for the wicked as John Gribbin told New Scientist 's readers that the results of a Chinese study of the alignment of the planets meant we were in for years of terrible weather . |
| 14 | They yesterday found out which rating band their homes were in for the tax which starts next April . |
| 15 | LONG ago , on dark nights when storms lashed the treacherous coastline , wreckers knew they were in for a busy time . |
| 16 | We were in for a long , rough passage , battling into the wind for seven hours or more . |
| 17 | With a foreboding which Harriet had experienced more than once in her life , something told her that they were in for trouble . |
| 18 | The English were in for a shock . |
| 19 | ‘ It was common knowledge that Blackburn were in for me , and there were also rumours about Arsenal . |
| 20 | I also understand that Basildon has erm got the same fate , so you know , it looks as if were in for a campaign there . |
| 21 | A feeling that we were in for an epic grew as we waited on the gendarme to begin a traverse across a snow ledge to the top of the fixed ropes , where the Germans , their clothes white with snow and ice , had set up another abseil . |
| 22 | We could hear them banging about , shifting things and wondered nervously if we were in for another move . |
| 23 | But if you went over the hill , after school time , then you were in for a fairly rough time the other end , you were challenged and all sorts of things . |
| 24 | I did n't know the forecast , but could see we were in for a storm . |
| 25 | I should n't be surprised if we were in for some more snow . ’ |
| 26 | They continued riding through the afternoon , by which time the dull cloud above their heads had become unbroken , and it looked as though they were in for a wet night . |
| 27 | You never knew what you were in for when you got up in the morning . |
| 28 | I thought we were in for some stability . |
| 29 | Inevitably , months later , some actor will hiss , ‘ Heard you were in for the first half the other night , ’ prompting instant fabrication of husband having a miscarriage and mad cow disease in row F ) . |
| 30 | A few months ago it seemed that oil markets were in for a chill spring . |