Example sentences of "they [was/were] in for " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 :
3 LONG ago , on dark nights when storms lashed the treacherous coastline , wreckers knew they were in for a busy time .
4 With a foreboding which Harriet had experienced more than once in her life , something told her that they were in for trouble .
5 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 .
6 They were in for an interesting night .
7 Dean Hodgson was first to go … caught behind … for 9 and then in the next but one over Broad was leg before for 14 … at 26 for 2 the Gloucestershire folk must have thought they were in for a hard day but Mark Alleyne came to the rescue … he made 73 …
8 If the Maltese expected the match to have the friendly atmosphere of a schoolboy international , however , then they were in for a rude awakening .
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