Example sentences of "were [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | LONG ago , on dark nights when storms lashed the treacherous coastline , wreckers knew they were in for a busy time . |
| 32 | We were in for a long , rough passage , battling into the wind for seven hours or more . |
| 33 | The English were in for a shock . |
| 34 | I also understand that Basildon has erm got the same fate , so you know , it looks as if were in for a campaign there . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | I did n't know the forecast , but could see we were in for a storm . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | A few months ago it seemed that oil markets were in for a chill spring . |
| 39 | ‘ Told you you were in for a nasty surprise , ’ Rex smirked awfully . |
| 40 | Ken and Maggie were in for a long run . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | If you stayed into watch the FA cup final on Saturday … you were in for a disappointment . |
| 43 | But if you watched Swindon 's game on Sunday … you were in for a treat . |
| 44 | 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 … |
| 45 | The first outsiders were in for a real treat . |
| 46 | If the Maltese expected the match to have the friendly atmosphere of a schoolboy international , however , then they were in for a rude awakening . |
| 47 | 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 ? |
| 48 | We were in for the worst . |
| 49 | They yesterday found out which rating band their homes were in for the tax which starts next April . |
| 50 | 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 ) . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | I knew we were in for an enjoyable day as soon as I heard Nick Faldo say , ‘ Have you heard this one , Nick ? ’ |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | They were in for an interesting night . |
| 55 | AT FIRST , it seemed that we were in for an evening at the Theatre of Cruelty . |
| 56 | ‘ Then when Warnaeera and Muralidaran got New Zealand out for 102 , we knew we were in with a great chance of beating them . ’ |
| 57 | A referee 's mistake lost them the match against Auckland and they were in with a chance for a long time in the Test — there was only one — before being beaten 11–3 . |
| 58 | We were in with a medal chance . |
| 59 | And they had the , the erm they had sort of five out of the five or six horses that I thought were in with a good chance at eight to one . |
| 60 | Every day you were in with the |