Example sentences of "in for a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're in for a rough time , Marcus . |
| 2 | There are fears that Wall Street , which this week hit a peak , is in for a torrid time in the next few weeks . |
| 3 | Started all this ‘ in for a certain time ’ stuff . |
| 4 | HAYDN-LOVERS are in for a good time this autumn : coming up are the Haydn at Esterhaza concerts at the Wigmore Hall ( part of the Magyarok Britain Salutes Hungary Festival ) ; already on display is the Haydn and England exhibition at the British Library ; and just started is the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment 's QEH Haydn series concentrating on his late choral works . |
| 5 | From what she had read in the diary , it seemed any boy with a pleasing face and the latest clothes was in for a good time . |
| 6 | Ed was just like a one off and I 'm not forward any more at all and , you know , everyone thinks I am you know and Pete thought right I 'm in for a good time here , you know , I can probably get her you know , and so Charlie would have to carry out his part . |
| 7 | If the property has been lived in for a long time with old carpets that have never been shampooed they can exude quite pungent odours . |
| 8 | Well I think there were niggling little points in all the quarries , the workforce certainly has n't been happy up in for a long time . |
| 9 | Most of the Labour front bench , including Neil Kinnock , were in their places and the predictions were that I was in for a stormy time . |
| 10 | The proportions reported to have had difficulty with various aspects of caring for themselves ( getting in and out of a bath or shower , dressing and undressing , going to the toilet , washing and shaving , feeding themselves , making a hot drink , or needing help at night ) for a year or more before death was 87 per cent of those who had been in a residential home for a year or more , 60 per cent of those in for a shorter time and 25 per cent of those who had not been in such a home at all . |
| 11 | I 'm sorry , Ellie ; I let you in for a hard time , did n't I ? ’ |
| 12 | Yet he got off to a good start against New Zealand , and no one in England could have been in any doubt that even without Lloyd around their heroes were in for a tough time . |
| 13 | We are in for a tough time . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It looks as though we 're in for a tough time ! ’ |
| 15 | On the other hand if you 've important business or vital meetings to attend you will be in for a tough time . |
| 16 | Geoff Wildinson , assistant director for filed work , recognises the SSD is in for a tough time . |
| 17 | Michel thinks she will be in for a bad time when she realizes it . |
| 18 | LONG ago , on dark nights when storms lashed the treacherous coastline , wreckers knew they were in for a busy time . |
| 19 | Otherwise , they 're in for a grim time of it . |
| 20 | After getting some oxygen , he then went back in for a third time . |