Example sentences of "were [adv prt] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the far end of the room , marooned on a dais in splendid isolation , sat those fellows of the college who were in for lunch that day . |
| 2 | With break for We 'd start we 'd do the cattle feed the cattle in the morning and then we were in for breakfast and then er be out then and er dinner then was usually about half past twelve and you started again on at two . |
| 3 | With a foreboding which Harriet had experienced more than once in her life , something told her that they were in for trouble . |
| 4 | The remaining fighters , which were down for maintenance and could not be made airworthy in time , were wrecked when a hangar door blew down on top of them . |
| 5 | If you 've had speeding disqualification er speeding points and you were up for disqualification because you 'd totted up twelve points |
| 6 | But they could n't do that because only one third of the councillors were up for election . |
| 7 | The PRD now held only 40 seats in the Chamber of Deputies ; of its former four Senate seats , it lost both those which were up for election . |
| 8 | In the Legislative Council ( the upper house of the state legislature ) one half of the 22 seats were up for election . |
| 9 | No surprises were anticipated from the meeting , at which all directors were up for re-election . |
| 10 | Rovers applied for a Pontins League place along with Stockport County , while Preston and Wigan were up for reelection . |
| 11 | Shares in the Sheffield Development Corporation were up for sale . |
| 12 | In the latter part of Sir Kit 's reign , which ended in early 1991 , half the bank 's assets were up for sale , including its European businesses , Thomas Cook , the travel chain , Forward Trust , and even the Midland 's headquarters in Poultry . |
| 13 | The first of Jonathon 's wooden ships were up for sale at ten guineas each ; Jonathon was earning his keep and so was Melanie , in the shop on her feet all day . |
| 14 | He said there was no reason to think the hotel industry would pick up the Scotch Corner Hotel and Croft Spa Hotel had gone into receivership and The Solberge and Kirkby Fleetham Hall were up for sale . |
| 15 | There was no reason to think the hotel industry would pick up and this was reflected by the fact that so many local hotels were up for sale . |
| 16 | Just before Christmas , when they were up for interview from their respective schools . |
| 17 | When we were out for lunch a few weeks ago , Alan asked where I was brought up and I said popped out on stalks two brothers had gone to school at . |
| 18 | Once , when native Hawaiians were out for blood after a visiting Australian had abused a local , he brought the two sides together and persuaded them to settle peacefully . |
| 19 | In his analysis , Hewlett-Packard Co , Sun Microsystems Inc and Intel Corp were out for blood , DEC and Compaq Computer Corp started eating their own children and ‘ the press , in a striking example of pack journalism , turned vicious , ’ playing up all the bad stuff — most notably MIPS ' financial distress — never mentioning the $50m it has in the bank — though see page three for MIPS ' disastrous results . |