Example sentences of "[noun] was [adv prt] for [art] " 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 | But , come the morning , Ronni was in for a rude awakening . |
| 3 | Some Orcadian cat was in for a good supper . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Dorrainge was in for a very big shock . |
| 7 | If Greg had understood the lady in the garden aright , Gerald Seymour-Strachey was in for a new experience . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | No it was our summer holiday , I went off for two weeks , when I came back Paula was off for a month . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But Eric came back from a working holiday and Peter was out for a little while , was n't he ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Any smoothy who saw her as a soft touch was in for a shock . |
| 17 | School was over for the day and Sara had expected Jenny to arrive before this . |
| 18 | But in the country as a whole , the number of skiers was down for the third year running , and was no higher than 12 years ago ( see chart on next page ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I wondered if the Great God Turhan Bey was in for a cut , or if Otto was doing it all off his own bat . |
| 21 | Ms McCarthy was out for the evening with a friend , Stacey Gallacher , when they heard that acid house partygoers were meeting on Clapham Common . |
| 22 | An architect on holiday in the Scottish Highlands was out for an afternoon 's hill walking . |
| 23 | The teachers could n't ask Frank where his mother might be because his class was out for the day on a Project Course . |