Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ken and Maggie were in for a long run . |
| 2 | But , come the morning , Ronni was in for a rude awakening . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If Greg had understood the lady in the garden aright , Gerald Seymour-Strachey was in for a new experience . |
| 6 | No it was our summer holiday , I went off for two weeks , when I came back Paula was off for a month . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But Eric came back from a working holiday and Peter was out for a little while , was n't he ? |
| 9 | Actors have not yet been announced , but the appealing rumour that Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder were up for the lead roles has been denied |
| 10 | I wondered if the Great God Turhan Bey was in for a cut , or if Otto was doing it all off his own bat . |
| 11 | Ms McCarthy was out for the evening with a friend , Stacey Gallacher , when they heard that acid house partygoers were meeting on Clapham Common . |
| 12 | An architect on holiday in the Scottish Highlands was out for an afternoon 's hill walking . |