Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] prepared for " in BNC.
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1 | Bread never went mouldy in Algeria , which meant that so long as I was prepared for a good chew , I could always buy enough to last to the next village . |
2 | My lack of culinary expertise has always been a source of great mirth to the men in my life and my well-attended failures embroidered into legends over the years , so I was prepared for the banter that accompanied dinner . |
3 | Even so , I do n't believe I was prepared for the facts . |
4 | So you could say I was prepared for the ‘ English way of Life ’ from what I 'd read . |
5 | And I made up my mind — " Now Mary Edgar you 'll be terribly sea-sick , " so I was prepared for the worst . |
6 | When it finally stopped I opened my eyes , and though by this time I was prepared for anything I still felt slightly surprised to sec The Butcher threading a needle with a length of suture silk . |
7 | Michelle has an abundance of waist-length hair and although she was prepared for a radical cut , Patrick recommended keeping the length but blunt-cutting it to a clean , straight line : ‘ You do n't have to have mountains cut off to look different , ’ he said . |
8 | She was prepared for mild stomach upsets , sunburn and the occasional blister . |
9 | He then asked if she was prepared for the parting and she told him , ‘ Willingly , John , in such a cause as this . ’ |
10 | After this , she was prepared for anything . |
11 | She was prepared for the move when it came and followed Claudia Hamilton and the other ladies upstairs . |
12 | But actually it does n't tell you anything about the quality of the care which they 're purchasing and the evidence that we are getting increasingly from the community health council is the experience of people of the health service is that actually the quality of the care is getting worse and this is not due to the staff in the health ee the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the e the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the for an operation er , four years , it should to be said er , she 's been waiting despite the government 's claim that all operations are done within two years er for very severe varicose veins and surprisingly enough she got them because of course most varicose have been removed her , the north-east Thames region erm , and er she turned up on the Wednesday and the operation had been postponed twice previously er , she was er gone through all the er , various tests which took her four hours cos she had to find all the places herself , there was nobody to show her to X-ray and various other places erm she was prepared for the op and then was sent home because there was n't a bed available ! |
13 | She was prepared for hostility towards Leon . |
14 | After education at home ( 9 Chandos Street ) , Isabel Fry 's classes proved valuable ; she was prepared for Cambridge entrance at Birklands School , St Albans . |
15 | If she was prepared for the worst then , God willing , it would n't happen . |
16 | Later she was to think how little she was prepared for the simple events which were to change her life completely — indeed she would have said that so much had happened to her already that any further incidents must be minor , a judgement which could not have been more faulty . |
17 | She was prepared for hurt . |
18 | ‘ Eric was late , ’ he said , ‘ but we were prepared for that and we waited . |
19 | Well , we were prepared for their sarcasm , we were prepared for their bill . |
20 | Well , we were prepared for their sarcasm , we were prepared for their bill . |
21 | They were prepared for an unyielding defence of their two flocks of 10,000 battery hens against the Ministry of Agriculture and the 10 burly ex-miners who form the ministry 's chicken-killing squad , ever-ready to wring a feathered neck . |
22 | The people of Ben Ami were not frightened but they were prepared for an enemy ; and visitors interested in the Arab–Jewish war of 1948 were well advised to present convincing explanations for their questions before they stirred memories too deeply . |
23 | Neither the Austrians nor the Russians , and still less the British , wanted to see a complete dismemberment of the Turkish empire , but they were prepared for de facto autonomy for Serbia . |
24 | UN aid officials said yesterday they were prepared for a battle of wills with rebel Serbs in an attempt to get trucks loaded with emergency supplies through to starving Muslims in eastern Bosnia . |
25 | It was prepared for the UN 's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change by Martin Parry , the director of the Environmental Change Unit at the University of Oxford and an expert on the greenhouse effect in agriculture . |
26 | He was prepared for me to Cook The Books |
27 | He was prepared for a battle if the porter turned out to be as difficult a customer as his wife . |
28 | Young maintained contact with his previous management consultancy clients who were already half-way convinced of headhunting , but he was prepared for much knocking on familiar and unfamiliar doors and cold-calling to drum up more business in a practical way . |
29 | Thus , French High Commissioner Pignon was hoping for American assistance in replacing and repairing military equipment ; said he was prepared for US military aid to go direct to the Vietnam government ; but also , in order to deter a Chinese invasion of Tonkin , was trying to talk the US into sending warships , particularly aircraft-carriers , into Indo-Chinese waters . |
30 | He was prepared for tears or temper or both , but she was very calm . |