Example sentences of "prepare [pron] for [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 2 | He meticulously prepared himself for his first meeting . |
| 3 | Whatever you may have read or heard about their relationship still can not prepare you for her own account . |
| 4 | Nothing prepares us for his next move . |
| 5 | Durkheim took for granted the existence of nation states ; indeed he emphasized the role of the state as the ‘ organ of moral discipline ’ , and the importance of national education as a moral education of the young generation , preparing them for their future tasks in the collective life of the nation . |
| 6 | On this basis he maintains that these adults should not be seen ‘ as agents of social control repressing the young — as reductionist social history might suggest — but as agents of socialization preparing them for their future roles as citizens in a society to which most adolescents gave unthinking and willing allegiance ’ . |
| 7 | This speech style urged on little girls is , however , a way of preparing them for their subordinate place in adult society . |
| 8 | But , with the polls pointing to a hung Parliament , the Whitehall village of permanent civil servants is preparing itself for what one source described as the ‘ nightmare scenario ’ of neither Mr Kinnock nor Mr Major having enough MPs to form a Government or to push a Queen 's Speech through the Commons on May 6 . |
| 9 | You can revolt against it by a breakdown in health or morale , going what the Americans call stir-crazy' ; or you can accept it calmly , as just a temporary ‘ pause ’ in your normal way of life from which you intend to extract some good for yourself and others , keeping active , keeping your eyes on the world beyond the bars , and planning and preparing yourself for your ultimate return to it . |
| 10 | As a beginner at Level 1 every effort is made to prepare you for your first experience on the board . |
| 11 | The significance of this was to give a much-needed niche for future leaders of the Third World in the years after 1945 to prepare themselves for their daunting task . |