Example sentences of "had prepare [pron] for the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Whistling ‘ I 'm in the Mood for Love ’ , and rejecting the buzz of his telephone , he had prepared himself for the chase .
2 He had prepared himself for the Stoics match in typical fashion the night before .
3 Her duties as parents had been completed , she had prepared them for the future , they could now stand on their own feet , so she let them go .
4 Nothing in my upbringing had prepared me for the weather , much less the absurd notion of hitchhiking .
5 Nothing in her 11 years as a member of the world 's most famous family had prepared her for the contents of the letter inside .
6 Nothing Isa Blagden had said had prepared her for the fright .
7 However , nothing had prepared us for the abundance and variety of scallops , mussels , every species in the shrimp to lobster continuum as well as some very funny-looking goose-neck barnacles .
8 He had to prepare them for the study of Old English ( Anglo-Saxon ) , Middle English ( that is , the language and literature of England from about 1200 until 1450 , including Chaucer ) and all the remaining periods of English literature up to the Victorian period .
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