Example sentences of "[was/were] in [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 but you can do it because you know you can go back home as it were in to the other area .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 :
6 SHOPPERS at Bordon 's new Somerfield store were in for a surprise on Saturday , when the supermarket staged a Disney fancy dress competition .
7 LONG ago , on dark nights when storms lashed the treacherous coastline , wreckers knew they were in for a busy time .
8 We were in for a long , rough passage , battling into the wind for seven hours or more .
9 The English were in for a shock .
10 I also understand that Basildon has erm got the same fate , so you know , it looks as if were in for a campaign there .
11 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 .
12 I did n't know the forecast , but could see we were in for a storm .
13 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 .
14 A few months ago it seemed that oil markets were in for a chill spring .
15 ‘ Told you you were in for a nasty surprise , ’ Rex smirked awfully .
16 Ken and Maggie were in for a long run .
17 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 .
18 If you stayed into watch the FA cup final on Saturday … you were in for a disappointment .
19 But if you watched Swindon 's game on Sunday … you were in for a treat .
20 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 …
21 The first outsiders were in for a real treat .
22 If the Maltese expected the match to have the friendly atmosphere of a schoolboy international , however , then they were in for a rude awakening .
23 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 ?
24 We were in for the worst .
25 They yesterday found out which rating band their homes were in for the tax which starts next April .
26 Inevitably , months later , some actor will hiss , ‘ Heard you were in for the first half the other night , ’ prompting instant fabrication of husband having a miscarriage and mad cow disease in row F ) .
27 The omens were bad , and when the Hammersmith show eventually got going it seemed we were in for an all-time rock ‘ n ’ roll disaster .
28 I knew we were in for an enjoyable day as soon as I heard Nick Faldo say , ‘ Have you heard this one , Nick ? ’
29 A feeling that we were in for an epic grew as we waited on the gendarme to begin a traverse across a snow ledge to the top of the fixed ropes , where the Germans , their clothes white with snow and ice , had set up another abseil .
30 They were in for an interesting night .
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