Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] in for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Ken and Maggie were in for a long run .
2 But , come the morning , Ronni was in for a rude awakening .
3 Some Orcadian cat was in for a good supper .
4 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 .
5 If Greg had understood the lady in the garden aright , Gerald Seymour-Strachey was in for a new experience .
6 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 .
7 The first outsiders were in for a real treat .
8 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 .
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