Example sentences of "was [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following Tuesday he was contacted at work to say that the jump was on for that afternoon . |
| 2 | Everything he did smelt quality , even though he was on for such a short time . ’ |
| 3 | McNamara already had the first spot in the bag and Moniz was out , so the battle was on for second place . |
| 4 | Leek out , had this heart trouble , and he 'd been in the Signals about oh ten year , he , he was on for twelve engagement and he nearly completed it when he had this heart trouble . |
| 5 | With construction costs for purpose-built vessels so high , the hunt was on for production-type boats that would keep within reasonable limits of the budget . |
| 6 | I was in for two weeks , during which I had a wide variety of tests . |
| 7 | ‘ What 's more , Joe Wallace was so pissed that night 'e did n't 'ave an inklin' who 'e was talkin' to or what pub 'e was in for that matter , so there 's no come-back from 'im at least . |
| 8 | Stephen , a softly spoken Mike Tyson lookalike , had kicked someone into a coma , Michelle was serving an indefinite life sentence for torching her victim , Tony tried to blow up his father and Lizzie was in for armed robbery . |
| 9 | His mother , he knew , was in for another of her bouts , and he would have to bear the brunt of it . |
| 10 | I thought I was in for another evening of getting slightly drunk on my own . ’ |
| 11 | When eventually she left the sitting-room to go to bed , she pattered into the hall , knowing in advance that she was in for another wretched night of it . |
| 12 | Robinson was in for ten years for armed robbery , while his companion was half-way through a twelve-year stretch for a similar crime . |
| 13 | Woke up one morning and I was in for twenty thousand . |
| 14 | He was in for three hours 40 minutes all told , an hour longer than any other West Indian managed , and gave only one chance , a difficult caught and bowled to Meyrick Pringle when 59 . |
| 15 | She saw his glance go over her , ending at the tips of her sensible shoes , and wondered if she was in for some punishing ten-mile hike . |
| 16 | I I recall that I in effect directed that an officer should carry a shotgun as opposed to the original officer that er was down for that weapon . |
| 17 | But then more wickets fell , and the eighth was down for 103 ; only for Logie and Bishop to put on 74 for the ninth wicket , and when Logie was last man out just two short of a well-deserved hundred , the score was 199 . |
| 18 | But within months , he was telling friends his marriage was over for good . |
| 19 | Every year on the Wednesday evening , after going up to bed , I used to stand at my window and gaze towards the fair some five hundred yards away , watching the flickering lights and hearing the screams and music , feeling quite sad that the show was over for another year . |
| 20 | But I was hoping it was off for good er but it did n't work out that way cos of the weather . |
| 21 | The last really bad one was in 1978 when the electricity was off for four days . |
| 22 | Yes but the , the general ones we 've got in those flip you know when I was off , when I had my cartilage removed in my knee , well I was off for six weeks so I got all the photographs and put them in order , the children and us , you know ? |
| 23 | A horse who has had his problems , Royal Athlete was off for two seasons , but in 1990 he won over the Mildmay fences at Liverpool after having fallen when backed favourite at Cheltenham . |
| 24 | One of his main rivals is Royal Athlete who was off for two seasons before returning this term and running a tremendous race when third in the Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
| 25 | So if I was off for two or three years then the rate of inflation was high , then it would be ten per cent each those years |
| 26 | He was off for ten weeks . |
| 27 | One of my colleagues went up to D 's cottage last weekend and PK was up for eight days about a fortnight ago , and had a really super week and not bad weather though there was a lot of snow at the roadsides on their way back — she went with current boyfriend , a nice chap who lives in Midlands . |
| 28 | Like a , a good example the , the the ninety three one , the ninety two one rather this year was a good example because there was erm a titanic battle in Old Harlow where the leader of the council Richard was up for re- election . |
| 29 | ‘ Charles was up for most of the night . |
| 30 | The England captain was out for eight — his middle stump uprooted — as a second innings collapse to 34 for three left his side struggling to avoid a 3-0 Test series whitewash . |