Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were as cool as if you were out for a stroll , ’ Moran said . |
| 2 | If the last time you were out for a duck was eating a salade tiéde magret de canard in an austere brasserie , or your most recent celebrated run was rushing to the embrace of the Cricketer 's Arms as last orders was called , pausing briefly to adjust your googlie , all is not lost . |
| 3 | I had the distinct impression that you were out for the kill ! ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Told you you were in for a nasty surprise , ’ Rex smirked awfully . |
| 6 | If you stayed into watch the FA cup final on Saturday … you were in for a disappointment . |
| 7 | But if you watched Swindon 's game on Sunday … you were in for a treat . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | So it went on day after day , night after night ; we were out for a month . |
| 10 | Well everybody thought we 'd be out for a week or so , but we were out for a month or er more when these scabs started going back . |
| 11 | WE were out for an airing with Air Hanson this week . |
| 12 | We were in for a long , rough passage , battling into the wind for seven hours or more . |
| 13 | I did n't know the forecast , but could see we were in for a storm . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | We were in for the worst . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I knew we were in for an enjoyable day as soon as I heard Nick Faldo say , ‘ Have you heard this one , Nick ? ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | AT FIRST , it seemed that we were in for an evening at the Theatre of Cruelty . |
| 21 | They were out for a walk . ’ |
| 22 | It was a Sunday afternoon and they were out for a stroll in the park . |
| 23 | When they were out , they were out for a drink . |
| 24 | One evening they were out for a long , long time . |
| 25 | You 'd travel down to the game on a Saturday , and if you met a Leeds fan at the train station , you could be sure that they were the best mate he 'd ever had , and they 'd tell you all the latest gossip that he 'd told them the last time they were out for a few pints . |
| 26 | When I was nine and they were out for the evening I stayed up late to watch a horror movie and had nightmares . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 : |
| 29 | LONG ago , on dark nights when storms lashed the treacherous coastline , wreckers knew they were in for a busy time . |
| 30 | 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 . |