Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adv prt] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court had heard that Rhys had now been accepted for a transplant operation at a Bristol hospital and the search was on for a suitable bone marrow donor . |
| 2 | Ken and Maggie were in for a long run . |
| 3 | But , come the morning , Ronni was in for a rude awakening . |
| 4 | Some Orcadian cat was in for a good supper . |
| 5 | After lunch , Graham Lloyd reached 34 before falling to Parsona , but Wasim Akram hit only five and Mike Matkinson was out for a lively 16 . |
| 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 | Studies were over for a few months . |
| 8 | ‘ No point , our lights were out for a long time , they 'd just use that as an excuse . |
| 9 | If Greg had understood the lady in the garden aright , Gerald Seymour-Strachey was in for a new experience . |
| 10 | But Eric came back from a working holiday and Peter was out for a little while , was n't he ? |
| 11 | The former Northern Ireland champion won the first frame 71-45 but McCluskey took the second 57-37 and it seemed as though the Ulsterman was in for a tough fight . |
| 12 | The first outsiders were in for a real treat . |
| 13 | Matthew Evans was to split his role and that the hunt was on for a new m.d. , rumours that Mr Evans was ‘ bailing out ’ and the company was on the block were fanned by the trade 's more supportive friends at Private Eye and pounced on by publishers overexcited at the prospect of getting their hands on , if not the company , then at least some of its authors . |
| 14 | From what she had read in the diary , it seemed any boy with a pleasing face and the latest clothes was in for a good time . |