Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adv prt] for a " 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 | Ken and Maggie were in for a long run . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But , come the morning , Ronni was in for a rude awakening . |
| 5 | Some Orcadian cat was in for a good supper . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Dorrainge was in for a very big shock . |
| 10 | Studies were over for a few months . |
| 11 | ‘ No point , our lights were out for a long time , they 'd just use that as an excuse . |
| 12 | The clown and the Man with the Big Bow Tie were out for a walk . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If Greg had understood the lady in the garden aright , Gerald Seymour-Strachey was in for a new experience . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | SHOPPERS at Bordon 's new Somerfield store were in for a surprise on Saturday , when the supermarket staged a Disney fancy dress competition . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | No it was our summer holiday , I went off for two weeks , when I came back Paula was off for a month . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But Eric came back from a working holiday and Peter was out for a little while , was n't he ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | A few months ago it seemed that oil markets were in for a chill spring . |
| 24 | The first outsiders were in for a real treat . |
| 25 | It was thanks to them that he learned that the hunt was on for a leak on the Washington embassy wartime staff which could only have been Maclean . |
| 26 | Matthew Evans was to split his role and that the hunt was on for a new m.d. , rumours that Mr Evans was ‘ bailing out ’ and the company was on the block were fanned by the trade 's more supportive friends at Private Eye and pounced on by publishers overexcited at the prospect of getting their hands on , if not the company , then at least some of its authors . |
| 27 | Any smoothy who saw her as a soft touch was in for a shock . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I wondered if the Great God Turhan Bey was in for a cut , or if Otto was doing it all off his own bat . |