Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] for [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 SHOPPERS at Bordon 's new Somerfield store were in for a surprise on Saturday , when the supermarket staged a Disney fancy dress competition .
2 AT FIRST , it seemed that we were in for an evening at the Theatre of Cruelty .
3 It was a Sunday afternoon and they were out for a stroll in the park .
4 WE were out for an airing with Air Hanson this week .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 We just had to sit there all day on our own , and I was in for a couple of weeks .
8 It was not long after that , though , that the rain decided once again to make an appearance and Ven decreed that it was in for the rest of the day .
9 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
10 If he was up for a part in a Night Nurse commercial he 'd be sure to get it unless Mickey Rourke turned up for the same audition .
11 ANNETTE BENING : ‘ I was up for the part of a prostitute in Dangerous Liaisons , the one whose backside John Malkovich uses to write a letter .
12 When Dustin told Brooks that he was up for the part in The Graduate , Mel said , ‘ But you 're an ugly little rat .
13 She was back for a moment on Bras d'Or , casting off coiling the painter up neatly , approved of by her father , and by Louise .
14 The teachers could n't ask Frank where his mother might be because his class was out for the day on a Project Course .
15 Ms McCarthy was out for the evening with a friend , Stacey Gallacher , when they heard that acid house partygoers were meeting on Clapham Common .
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