Example sentences of "[adv] preparing for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ PAMELA and Mrs. JERVIS are alone together in private , perhaps preparing for bed ] |
| 2 | Most of us are still thinking about our Summer holidays , but one group of people are already preparing for Christmas ! |
| 3 | He was tearing Germany apart and already preparing for war , the Jews being his first victims . |
| 4 | Just a few miles away at the Camas camp 1100 refugees with a different story to tell are also preparing for winter . |
| 5 | The AWB , he said , was now preparing for revolution and its main priority would be the strengthening of its commandos . |
| 6 | Both sides were now preparing for war , but Norfolk and Rent made another attempt at mediation in mid-December when they wrote to all the prelates asking them to attend an assembly in London to discuss the king 's failure to abide by his coronation oath and Magna Carta . |
| 7 | And er my chum 's mother , she was a forewoman French polisher and he asked her to come and er work along with him you know , but it was I mean that was during the depression years , that was in the the twenties right through to the you know the The first bright spot was when the Queen Mary got started it gave people And then of course , just after that , things was beginning to pick up , but it was really preparing for war . |
| 8 | Ignorant at first of the monetary value of these , nine of us including the donor , spent two evenings lightheartedly preparing for sale the 500-odd prints , many by ‘ Spy ’ , ‘ Ape ’ , or ‘ Max ’ . |
| 9 | As both manoeuvred for position , whether it was cutting down trees and digging up streets in Hanoi or sending ‘ unauthorized ’ French battalions to various strategic points , the risk — and incidence — of clashes increased and both sides were at least preparing for war . |
| 10 | She met her reflection with a stubbornly squared chin , mentally preparing for battle . |
| 11 | I therefore offer readers an extract of my elder friend 's memoirs , taken from the book which his daughter Aliki Costakis and I are currently preparing for publication . |