Example sentences of "was [adv] for a [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | Quail Eggs Arnold Bennett — perhaps the name should put one off , and what arrived was enough for a full meal , with much haddock , but the sauce was rather thick , reminding one of our party of a school-sanatorium dinner . |
| 3 | If Greg had understood the lady in the garden aright , Gerald Seymour-Strachey was in for a new experience . |
| 4 | Clare was told she was in for a long stay in bed , and Mother moved in a divan to sleep next to her . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Some Orcadian cat was in for a good supper . |
| 7 | Most of the Labour front bench , including Neil Kinnock , were in their places and the predictions were that I was in for a stormy time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But he was a most willing worker , and although she knew she was in for a tough day without him she offered her sympathy , and advised , ‘ Take an Alka-Seltzer and go back to bed . |
| 10 | But , come the morning , Ronni was in for a rude awakening . |
| 11 | He was in for a big surprise if he thought he was still dealing with the impressionable , easygoing young girl he had married ! |
| 12 | Well , she felt in a fighting mood , and if he thought that he could make a fool of her in front of his girlfriend then he was in for a big surprise . |
| 13 | Now she knew she was in for an unpleasant surprise . |
| 14 | ‘ That was the only time we kept something from her and even then it was only for a short time , ’ says Mike . |
| 15 | But … but , as Mama said , as long as we kept it clean and it was only for a short time … |
| 16 | I had n't had any kind of pain relief — well , there was n't time ! — but the pain , although very intense , was only for a short time , so it was easy for me to bear . |
| 17 | Not going to school , and having to pretend I did n't live on the island all the time , has meant that I did n't grow up with anybody of my own age ( except Eric , of course , but even he was away for a long time ) , and about the time I was thinking of venturing further afield and getting to know more people Eric went crazy , and things got a bit uncomfortable in the town for a while . |
| 18 | The demand which grew up amongst Congregationalists and , to a lesser degree , Baptists was not for a radical shift in the nature of their worship but for the external embellishment of traditional worship : flowers , organs and stained glass , but not chants , Holy Tables and liturgical seasons . |
| 19 | However , despite being framed as a negative provision , the House of Lords held that the clause was unenforceable as it lacked certainty in that it was not for a fixed period of duration . |
| 20 | The vow was usually for a limited time , but Samson ( a somewhat unorthodox Nazirite ) had a lifelong vow ( Judges 13–16 ) . |
| 21 | He has been Professor of Architecture at the University of Belgrade , and was also for a brief period in the early 1980s the Mayor of the city . |
| 22 | Furthermore , Finch ( 1989 ) suggests that much co-residence between relatives was driven by economic imperatives and was often for a temporary period only . |
| 23 | His parents welcomed him , assuming he was back for an indefinite stay and perhaps interpreting this as a change of heart . |
| 24 | He was out for a good time , which might well involve finishing the evening with a fight . |
| 25 | But Eric came back from a working holiday and Peter was out for a little while , was n't he ? |
| 26 | I leant back and looked at the seat of my trousers , checking that I had brushed off the mud ; I wanted to make the transition from somebody who had just slept rough to somebody who looked as though he was out for an early walk . |
| 27 | But she was here for a little while now , and would be coming back in mid-April to get Luxembourg on . |
| 28 | For our purposes what matters is that RNA , or something like it , was around for a long time before it became self-replicating . |
| 29 | ‘ I was there for a long time , but I ca n't remember anyone visiting me . |
| 30 | The possibility was there for a tremendous finish . |