Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [adv prt] 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 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 .
4 If Greg had understood the lady in the garden aright , Gerald Seymour-Strachey was in for a new experience .
5 But Eric came back from a working holiday and Peter was out for a little while , was n't he ?
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