Example sentences of "they be in [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 In football , although the team lost the national league final they are in with a reasonable chance of retaining the All Ireland cup .
2 I 've just asked him about the collaborative review the focus is apparently on national curriculum so that means maths , English and , but they want to look ge more general issues and because they 're in on a Wens Tuesday and a Wednesday he said that they would go in a look at , three of them would go in a look at taught tutorial lessons they will want to talk to me about the tutorial programme I would hope that that would involve somebody else cos I 've got the bit of the fence that I sit on and ask one or two of you to give your opinion if , if you 're available .
3 Deciding this time , they 're in for a shock —
4 Otherwise , they 're in for a grim time of it .
5 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 .
6 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 :
7 LONG ago , on dark nights when storms lashed the treacherous coastline , wreckers knew they were in for a busy time .
8 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 .
9 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 …
10 If the Maltese expected the match to have the friendly atmosphere of a schoolboy international , however , then they were in for a rude awakening .
11 They were in for an interesting night .
12 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 .
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