Example sentences of "[was/were] in [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was sweet nothing in the way of nectar and what duped flowers had burst out of the ground were in for a shock when the frosts came . |
| 2 | Whitton 's second , in the 38th minute , must have warned the crowd nearly 1,000 below the Recreation Ground 's 5,000 capacity that they were in for a dispiriting night . |
| 3 | Yet he got off to a good start against New Zealand , and no one in England could have been in any doubt that even without Lloyd around their heroes were in for a tough time . |
| 4 | He told them they were in for a terrific all singing , all dancing , all laughing evening in the company of a galaxy of West End stars , and he informed them , after a bow to the front row where the CO and his wife sat among the senior officers of the Battalion : |
| 5 | SHOPPERS at Bordon 's new Somerfield store were in for a surprise on Saturday , when the supermarket staged a Disney fancy dress competition . |
| 6 | LONG ago , on dark nights when storms lashed the treacherous coastline , wreckers knew they were in for a busy time . |
| 7 | We were in for a long , rough passage , battling into the wind for seven hours or more . |
| 8 | The English were in for a shock . |
| 9 | I also understand that Basildon has erm got the same fate , so you know , it looks as if were in for a campaign there . |
| 10 | But if you went over the hill , after school time , then you were in for a fairly rough time the other end , you were challenged and all sorts of things . |
| 11 | I did n't know the forecast , but could see we were in for a storm . |
| 12 | They continued riding through the afternoon , by which time the dull cloud above their heads had become unbroken , and it looked as though they were in for a wet night . |
| 13 | A few months ago it seemed that oil markets were in for a chill spring . |
| 14 | ‘ Told you you were in for a nasty surprise , ’ Rex smirked awfully . |
| 15 | Ken and Maggie were in for a long run . |
| 16 | He is one of the finest strikers so I suppose you ca n't totally blame the defence but by this time I thought we were in for a beating . |
| 17 | If you stayed into watch the FA cup final on Saturday … you were in for a disappointment . |
| 18 | But if you watched Swindon 's game on Sunday … you were in for a treat . |
| 19 | Dean Hodgson was first to go … caught behind … for 9 and then in the next but one over Broad was leg before for 14 … at 26 for 2 the Gloucestershire folk must have thought they were in for a hard day but Mark Alleyne came to the rescue … he made 73 … |
| 20 | The first outsiders were in for a real treat . |
| 21 | If the Maltese expected the match to have the friendly atmosphere of a schoolboy international , however , then they were in for a rude awakening . |
| 22 | Even then we were in for a surprise you see , because at the end of the You know how most houses have a rectangular plot within which the house is put ? |
| 23 | ‘ Then when Warnaeera and Muralidaran got New Zealand out for 102 , we knew we were in with a great chance of beating them . ’ |
| 24 | A referee 's mistake lost them the match against Auckland and they were in with a chance for a long time in the Test — there was only one — before being beaten 11–3 . |
| 25 | We were in with a medal chance . |
| 26 | And they had the , the erm they had sort of five out of the five or six horses that I thought were in with a good chance at eight to one . |
| 27 | Nick Faldo , who after an outward half of 33 , had closed to within two strokes of the lead , was in with a fine chance but he could not maintain it . |
| 28 | I felt that my running was improving as the season progressed and that I was in with a chance . |
| 29 | As it turned out , Donovan Reid won and I came second , missing the third individual place but feeling that I was in with a chance of making the relay team . |
| 30 | He told me that if I kept running well , I was in with a chance . |