Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] in for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just that there are some things the mind-set is not adjusted to and I was tuned in for bracing winds , long place names and snatches of Tom Jones . |
| 2 | I had to consciously tell myself what I was going in for and not to use the trip downstairs as an excuse to have a ‘ little ’ rest on the sofa after my thirty-four minutes of hard work . |
| 3 | The first of the two meetings then was of the regional chairman of BAIE ( and I was standing in for ours in Scotland ) followed by a meeting of the Council of BAIE . |
| 4 | The cops worked shifts , but I was booked in for the run . |
| 5 | They followed the Thames as it curved down past the Savoy Palace , Durham and York House , past the high-pooped ships scarred from long voyages which were crowding in for repairs . |
| 6 | People who were going in for fines and just daft shoplifting and that were getting their bairns taken away . |
| 7 | Who were going in for the exam and I were n't allowed to help them . |
| 8 | And she was going in for eggs or something , said well I usually leave them a day or two in the winter cos it does n't hurt and she said she struggled and struggled with that door ! |
| 9 | The long and the short of it is , her father owns the two shops — I suppose they 're joined at the back — and she was standing in for her father . |
| 10 | K. R. One night we had a strange sergeant in from the South End of the city who was filling in for our missing sergeant . |
| 11 | The deputy Labour leader , Margaret Beckett , told Tony Newton , the leader of the Commons , who was standing in for Mr Major at Question Time : ‘ How would you feel if you were serving in the British Army under fire in Bosnia and were handed a P45 ? ’ |
| 12 | Djohar , 72 , who was sworn in for a six-year term on March 20 , was a former President of the Supreme Court and had served as interim President since the assassination of President Ahmed Abdallah Abderrahman in November 1989 [ see p. 37033 ] . |
| 13 | ‘ People were very friendly and we were invited in for a number of cups of tea during our stay , ’ PC Mardon said . |
| 14 | You hurry slowly in the Atlas : at the highest village we were taken in for tea again , by a sister of Ali 's . |
| 15 | The last ten minutes of the journey were so exciting , I just could n't wait to plonk my feet in a nice bowl of water , then we reached the village we were to stay in for the next three weeks . |
| 16 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 17 | They understood what they were going in for . |
| 18 | Erm , and it 's been quickly Christianized with just two little lectures at the beginning of two chapters to Christianize so it was popped in for new testament and it 's the nearest we can get to teaching . |
| 19 | Evans said they should get Jack Nicholson for the role and he was invited in for a try-out . |
| 20 | He expected to be there for only three or four days , but he was kept in for a fortnight . |
| 21 | He was closing in for the kill . |
| 22 | He was taken in for a moment , and believed her . |
| 23 | Afraid she might doze off if she gave in to temptation and lay down on the bed , she sat down instead on the room 's only chair , and picked up a book , absorbing not a single word as she waited for the sounds that would mean he was turning in for the night . |
| 24 | Not that she intended accepting any favours from him , but she knew he was booked in for two nights , which gave her time to return his hospitality if she could not manipulate tonight into a Dutch treat . |
| 25 | And he was moving in my direction , although I did n't know he was coming in for a photograph . |
| 26 | Actually , before he moved away , he , he gave up his designing job and he was working in for a bit . |
| 27 | He said he was going in for the Spot the Talent competition at the Easter Fete . |