Example sentences of "was [adv prt] 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 | If Greg had understood the lady in the garden aright , Gerald Seymour-Strachey was in for a new experience . |
| 3 | Clare was told she was in for a long stay in bed , and Mother moved in a divan to sleep next to her . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Some Orcadian cat was in for a good supper . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But , come the morning , Ronni was in for a rude awakening . |
| 10 | He was in for a big surprise if he thought he was still dealing with the impressionable , easygoing young girl he had married ! |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He was out for a good time , which might well involve finishing the evening with a fight . |
| 13 | But Eric came back from a working holiday and Peter was out for a little while , was n't he ? |
| 14 | For our purposes what matters is that RNA , or something like it , was around for a long time before it became self-replicating . |