Example sentences of "[noun] was [adv prt] for " 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 | Like a , a good example the , the the ninety three one , the ninety two one rather this year was a good example because there was erm a titanic battle in Old Harlow where the leader of the council Richard was up for re- election . |
| 3 | He 'd always gone to the fields long before Edward was up for school , but today he was still wrapping his lunchtime bread and cheese in a cloth . |
| 4 | But within months , he was telling friends his marriage was over for good . |
| 5 | But , come the morning , Ronni was in for a rude awakening . |
| 6 | McNamara already had the first spot in the bag and Moniz was out , so the battle was on for second place . |
| 7 | Some Orcadian cat was in for a good supper . |
| 8 | The tormenting life of the desert was over for him and his family . |
| 9 | He wondered what Pete was in for . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A horse who has had his problems , Royal Athlete was off for two seasons , but in 1990 he won over the Mildmay fences at Liverpool after having fallen when backed favourite at Cheltenham . |
| 12 | Wetherall was in for Fairclough . |
| 13 | The day we drove to his mother 's great big house with its green lawns and clipped hedges , I knew that my war was over for ever and Raymond was by my side . ’ |
| 14 | Bobo was in for a shock , however , for when he kicked open the door to Sam 's office , he discovered that the President had already taken the matter out of his hands , having blown his own brains out . |
| 15 | Dorrainge was in for a very big shock . |
| 16 | The actor was out for seventy-five big ones . |
| 17 | That site was up for sale but there was no takers . |
| 18 | A warrant was out for Aung San , but Suzuki helped him and another young Thakin , Hla Myaing , to escape by ship . |
| 19 | Robinson was in for ten years for armed robbery , while his companion was half-way through a twelve-year stretch for a similar crime . |
| 20 | Stephen , a softly spoken Mike Tyson lookalike , had kicked someone into a coma , Michelle was serving an indefinite life sentence for torching her victim , Tony tried to blow up his father and Lizzie was in for armed robbery . |
| 21 | Fifty for one , Botham was out for eight |
| 22 | If Greg had understood the lady in the garden aright , Gerald Seymour-Strachey was in for a new experience . |
| 23 | The following Tuesday he was contacted at work to say that the jump was on for that afternoon . |
| 24 | Doubtful if he ever dented a heart ; more than likely he gave quite a number of hearts a new lift after they 'd imagined the ball was over for them . |
| 25 | Nine months or a year 's time we may have a different animal working in that office and it may well be some person who has who does some J L O work to supplement John and does some project work , now er Jackie has indicated she 'd love to fill that role , and we all know what project she 'd want to be doing it , but er if we do put somebody in that role they will be project officer as well and on the wall will be a year planner and it 'll have things like crucial crew gala day and all these major major things and that particular officer will work quite closely with the new Pat and they 'll be able to take some of the weight off our shoulders so when we start planning for something like crucial crew you can delegate some of the work to the project officer and perhaps the other sergeant Now I know things do n't always work out quite that straightforwardly but you know the last year has been a bastard of a year for us in terms of sickness , four S L O's have been on long-term sick we 've lost Pat for all that time Jed was off for quite a while |
| 26 | And we felt that team two have gone the other way , tha that the work spread out and actually when you looked at the , at the project plan at the back , erm that in fact a surveyor was out for six hundred and eighty three DOPACS units which is about ten days and that had spread all through May , June and July . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It did n't take us long , then , to conclude that Peru was out for us at least . |
| 29 | No it was our summer holiday , I went off for two weeks , when I came back Paula was off for a month . |
| 30 | But the little game was over for Erika . |