Example sentences of "they were [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just before Christmas , when they were up for interview from their respective schools . |
| 2 | They were out for a walk . ’ |
| 3 | It was a Sunday afternoon and they were out for a stroll in the park . |
| 4 | They were out for Mrs Dyer 's blood . |
| 5 | When I was nine and they were out for the evening I stayed up late to watch a horror movie and had nightmares . |
| 6 | When they were out , they were out for a drink . |
| 7 | One evening they were out for a long , long time . |
| 8 | They were out for two or three minutes , during which no one in the hall spoke . |
| 9 | You 'd travel down to the game on a Saturday , and if you met a Leeds fan at the train station , you could be sure that they were the best mate he 'd ever had , and they 'd tell you all the latest gossip that he 'd told them the last time they were out for a few pints . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 : |
| 12 | LONG ago , on dark nights when storms lashed the treacherous coastline , wreckers knew they were in for a busy time . |
| 13 | With a foreboding which Harriet had experienced more than once in her life , something told her that they were in for trouble . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They were in for an interesting night . |
| 16 | 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 … |
| 17 | If the Maltese expected the match to have the friendly atmosphere of a schoolboy international , however , then they were in for a rude awakening . |
| 18 | In fact they were off for most trials . |