Example sentences of "[adv] prepare for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In La Male Honte , " Foul shame " ( although the title itself is ambiguous , representing Anglo-French " The purse of Honte " , and the fabliau itself revolves around this ambiguity ) , the deceased Honte 's friend carries the legacy due to the crown to the king " " a son col " " : simply , " on his back " , although since we know that we are reading a " " fablel " " we are especially prepared for a word such as col = " arse " , and have to carry forward in our minds to the rest of the fabliau the notion that it might be significant that the friend carries what is due to the king on his backside . |
| 2 | Soldiers were beginning to look at the clock and fumble with equipment , apparently preparing for a guard change . |
| 3 | The driver was obviously preparing for a grand-prix start . |
| 4 | The cordon was eventually lifted at 1900 hours and the section flown home , only to prepare for a very full day 's patrolling on the following day . |
| 5 | The ground was thus prepared for a fully fledged revival . |
| 6 | She was not prepared for a very similar question being thrown at her . |
| 7 | The difference , of course , is that the specials are not preparing for a conflict that we hope will never happen . |
| 8 | Irvine had been killed , not preparing for a piss but to carry out the same amorous duties I had . |
| 9 | Boots on : Middlesbrough mayor Eddie Bolland took penalty taking practice against Boro goalie Steve Pears yesterday to prepare for a celebrity shootout on Wednesday . |
| 10 | He has travelled home to prepare for a World Championship heat in Austria . |
| 11 | As I oversee the finishing touches of this Christmas issue of Pipeline , I am also preparing for a special production of my own ! |
| 12 | The ability of the modem to translate signals makes the information services market we have today a possibility … information publishers must now prepare for a new challenge and for a similar degree of networking capacity for video and other multimedia as they currently experience for data … ’ |
| 13 | Thousands of refugees in Afghanistan who 've fled conflict and civil war are now preparing for a further challenge … the bitter winter ahead . |
| 14 | They are now preparing for a special anniversary concert in the Crypt Concert Room at the cathedral on November 14 . |
| 15 | SCARBOROUGH : Extensive work is underway to prepare for a big launch of a scheme to convert the former Odeon cinema into a theatre . |
| 16 | Three early-season defeats away from home had started a buzz that he was on his way , even prepared for a terminal handshake ; under the somewhat defensive provisions of his contract as manager , which might have been designed by the American alimony lawyer Marvin Mitchelson , it would have cost Barcelona more than £1m . |
| 17 | Christians fast to prepare for a feast ; the modern world feasts and then queasily goes on a diet . |
| 18 | There appears to be a general assumption that women should somehow automatically know how to prepare for a baby , but this is simply not the case . |
| 19 | However , it is unlike a prudential or moral imperative in that it tells me only how to prepare for a choice , not how to choose . |
| 20 | Sometimes , when preparing for a long haul , I would only manage four hours ' rest , but that night I was asleep by eleven-thirty and did not rise till six . |
| 21 | In the bottom half of the draw Chris Wilkinson was again preparing for a second challenge to Jeremy Bates ' domination as he overcame strong challenges from Italy , South Africa and Sweden to reach his second final . |
| 22 | For most of the period , from the first conquests in the fourteenth century until the rise of the South Slav nationalist movements in the nineteenth century , the empire was either preparing for a war against its Christian neighbours , fighting a war or recovering from a war . |
| 23 | hi again — as we ( norway ) once again prepare for a clash against Poland i thought i bring an update on a posting a made some weeks ago . |
| 24 | He warned his players to expect a hostile reception in England and said : ‘ We came mentally prepared for a hard time and determined to give our answer out there on the field . |
| 25 | The Carlists had been building up the paramilitary Requeté since the early days of the Republic and seriously preparing for a rising since 1934 . |