Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adv prt] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that the final article is likely to have been polished by Sir David English , the editor and long-standing friend of Margaret Thatcher , prompted speculation that the Number 10 knives were out for the Chancellor , and that his days might be numbered . |
| 2 | She has the whip-hand for the first time since the cock-up over the separation when they had to apologise for making it known that the knives were out for the Duchess . |
| 3 | They yesterday found out which rating band their homes were in for the tax which starts next April . |
| 4 | So I arranged for one of the estate stalkers to take the remains up the river , when the Colonel and his lady were out for the day . ’ |
| 5 | But I mean I think the feeling of the the miners were out for a year I mean time and time again I 've heard people say , Oh how d how do they do it and look at the money they 're sending us and look at what they 're doing for us and how ho . |
| 6 | Bobo was in for a shock , however , for when he kicked open the door to Sam 's office , he discovered that the President had already taken the matter out of his hands , having blown his own brains out . |
| 7 | Beside the ocean , then climbing a narrow road towards woods — the clown and the Man with the Big Bow Tie were out for a drive . |
| 8 | The clown and the Man with the Big Bow Tie were out for a walk . |
| 9 | By this time the families staying there for summer quarters were out for a forenoon walk : mothers , nurses , playful youngsters — some with towels for the bathing , others with picnic baskets , making for the cliffs or the shore . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | The father was on for the whole of the second act of The Hooded Owl , and never had that part of the play passed as slowly as it did that evening . |
| 13 | No it was our summer holiday , I went off for two weeks , when I came back Paula was off for a month . |
| 14 | But Mosley campaigned in Tuscany by phone and by the time he returned to London for the autumn , the plan was set , letters were going out and Balestre was in for a surprise . |
| 15 | But I 'm not I 'm not in the frame of mind to be saying this kid was off for a week with flu then and was off |
| 16 | A few months ago it seemed that oil markets were in for a chill spring . |
| 17 | ‘ If I told you lessons were over for the day and you could go swimming , no doubt a miraculous recovery would take place . |
| 18 | It was thanks to them that he learned that the hunt was on for a leak on the Washington embassy wartime staff which could only have been Maclean . |
| 19 | Any smoothy who saw her as a soft touch was in for a shock . |
| 20 | Actors have not yet been announced , but the appealing rumour that Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder were up for the lead roles has been denied |
| 21 | School was over for the day and Sara had expected Jenny to arrive before this . |
| 22 | I wondered if the Great God Turhan Bey was in for a cut , or if Otto was doing it all off his own bat . |
| 23 | Ms McCarthy was out for the evening with a friend , Stacey Gallacher , when they heard that acid house partygoers were meeting on Clapham Common . |
| 24 | An architect on holiday in the Scottish Highlands was out for an afternoon 's hill walking . |
| 25 | The teachers could n't ask Frank where his mother might be because his class was out for the day on a Project Course . |