Example sentences of "[pers pn] were in for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever you picked , you were in for it . |
| 2 | If you were in for 9 in the morning , you were out at 9.30 and the other fellow must not book in till 9.31 a.m . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | You never knew what you were in for when you got up in the morning . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ Told you you were in for a nasty surprise , ’ Rex smirked awfully . |
| 7 | ‘ You have n't been pressured into any further interrogation , not only because of the condition you were in for so long , ’ Munro said , ‘ but because we know everything there is to know about Operation Eagle . ’ |
| 8 | If you stayed into watch the FA cup final on Saturday … you were in for a disappointment . |
| 9 | But if you watched Swindon 's game on Sunday … you were in for a treat . |
| 10 | So you were in for ten minutes and rushed them out and out again then |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I knew we were in for an enjoyable day as soon as I heard Nick Faldo say , ‘ Have you heard this one , Nick ? ’ |
| 13 | We were in for the worst . |
| 14 | There was no rest for the wicked as John Gribbin told New Scientist 's readers that the results of a Chinese study of the alignment of the planets meant we were in for years of terrible weather . |
| 15 | We were in for a long , rough passage , battling into the wind for seven hours or more . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We could hear them banging about , shifting things and wondered nervously if we were in for another move . |
| 18 | I did n't know the forecast , but could see we were in for a storm . |
| 19 | I should n't be surprised if we were in for some more snow . ’ |
| 20 | I thought we were in for some stability . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | AT FIRST , it seemed that we were in for an evening at the Theatre of Cruelty . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 : |
| 27 | LONG ago , on dark nights when storms lashed the treacherous coastline , wreckers knew they were in for a busy time . |
| 28 | With a foreboding which Harriet had experienced more than once in her life , something told her that they were in for trouble . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | They were in for an interesting night . |