Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that the final article is likely to have been polished by Sir David English , the editor and long-standing friend of Margaret Thatcher , prompted speculation that the Number 10 knives were out for the Chancellor , and that his days might be numbered . |
| 2 | The Express , by contrast , detects unsheathed Conservative blades : ‘ Tory knives were out for the BBC … the Prime Minister is said to have told friends : ‘ my views on the BBC 's coverage are not printable . ’ |
| 3 | She has the whip-hand for the first time since the cock-up over the separation when they had to apologise for making it known that the knives were out for the Duchess . |
| 4 | They yesterday found out which rating band their homes were in for the tax which starts next April . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Ken and Maggie were in for a long run . |
| 7 | So I arranged for one of the estate stalkers to take the remains up the river , when the Colonel and his lady were out for the day . ’ |
| 8 | But I mean I think the feeling of the the miners were out for a year I mean time and time again I 've heard people say , Oh how d how do they do it and look at the money they 're sending us and look at what they 're doing for us and how ho . |
| 9 | But , come the morning , Ronni was in for a rude awakening . |
| 10 | Some Orcadian cat was in for a good supper . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Dorrainge was in for a very big shock . |
| 15 | Studies were over for a few months . |
| 16 | ‘ No point , our lights were out for a long time , they 'd just use that as an excuse . |
| 17 | The clown and the Man with the Big Bow Tie were out for a walk . |
| 18 | Beside the ocean , then climbing a narrow road towards woods — the clown and the Man with the Big Bow Tie were out for a drive . |
| 19 | If Greg had understood the lady in the garden aright , Gerald Seymour-Strachey was in for a new experience . |
| 20 | By this time the families staying there for summer quarters were out for a forenoon walk : mothers , nurses , playful youngsters — some with towels for the bathing , others with picnic baskets , making for the cliffs or the shore . |
| 21 | SHOPPERS at Bordon 's new Somerfield store were in for a surprise on Saturday , when the supermarket staged a Disney fancy dress competition . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | No it was our summer holiday , I went off for two weeks , when I came back Paula was off for a month . |
| 25 | But Mosley campaigned in Tuscany by phone and by the time he returned to London for the autumn , the plan was set , letters were going out and Balestre was in for a surprise . |
| 26 | But Eric came back from a working holiday and Peter was out for a little while , was n't he ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But I 'm not I 'm not in the frame of mind to be saying this kid was off for a week with flu then and was off |
| 29 | A few months ago it seemed that oil markets were in for a chill spring . |
| 30 | The first outsiders were in for a real treat . |