Example sentences of "they 're [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're up for sale at an auction of film props to be held in Norton in Gloucestershire . |
| 2 | Deciding this time , they 're in for a shock — |
| 3 | If their naivety is to be believed , they 're in for more painful disillusionment when someone can bear to break the news to them that the tooth fairy does n't exist and that the singing Madonna is no virgin . |
| 4 | Otherwise , they 're in for a grim time of it . |
| 5 | People living next to the site of a New Age festival planned for the weekend say they 're in for two days of misery . |
| 6 | They 're in for punishment not nourishment . |
| 7 | I was going to say , I like to set somebody task as they 're down for , and I look for it , and nine times out of ten you 'll find out if they can achieve that very shortly , very fast . |
| 8 | I was just going to make a quick comment if I may on Oxfam , because I noticed that they 're down for the street collections and for the flag day , now next year 's their fiftieth anniversary , so I think it 's quite appropriate next year , but I do , my own view is , that we will get , we ought to get one comprehensive list of all these organisations , for both the street collections and the flag days , with an indication in the column of whether it 's flag day they 've gone for or a street collection , so that we can identify that sort of situation . |
| 9 | They come in twos when they 're out for trouble . |
| 10 | They 're out for us — we sucker-ass liberals are the target . |
| 11 | They 're out for a laugh , I mean Charlie wo n't even tell me who he fancies because erm he says , you know , he said to me , you know , and in , in , in , and in his exact words he said you 've got to be really stupid to tell anyone anything in this place and I said yeah but I 'm not a proper Haileyburian I 've just come in , you know he goes yeah but you 're gon na get that way |
| 12 | I think they 're along for the purpose of camouflage , respectability , if you will . |
| 13 | But then they 're back for it . |