Example sentences of "prepare [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This suggests that something is amiss with the job definition and , by implication , also with education and training which does not prepare them for the reality . |
| 2 | In exploring such environments pupils will experience the type of argument and logical analysis that will prepare them for the real-life problems they will tackle outside . |
| 3 | Two teenagers have chosen to bed down for the night in a freezer as part of their training for an expedition to the Artic Circle , They hope that a good night of shivering in sub-zero temperatures will prepare them for the trip . |
| 4 | While I was at Cambridge , I began to follow a rule of life which I hoped would prepare me for the priesthood . |
| 5 | We must prepare ourselves for the possibility that the situation for homosexual women and men will also worsen in our own countries . |
| 6 | He had practiced putting on his kitchen floor at home during the winter to try and prepare himself for the greens . |
| 7 | He acknowledges that before a contemplative is ready , like Moses , to climb the mountain , he must prepare himself by the time-honoured Western disciplines of Lectio , Meditatio and Oratio — study of scripture , meditation and prayer — but he tells his readers that other authors will tell them all they need to know about these . |
| 8 | Nothing had prepared me for the overwhelming architectural beauty of Salamanca , and in particular for the grandeur of the university , the oldest in Spain and one of the oldest in Europe , with its noble façade in plateresque style . |
| 9 | Back in London after that trip she said : ‘ Nothing could have prepared me for the agony of seeing countless dying children . |
| 10 | Nothing in my upbringing had prepared me for the weather , much less the absurd notion of hitchhiking . |
| 11 | It has n't prepared me for the outside world ; all it 's done is given me an awareness of myself . |
| 12 | I had each Wednesday afternoon off from Russell 's and he enroled me , secretly , into his school for lessons with his normal classes , He and his wife held a weekly open house and these cramming sessions prepared me for the coming Halton entrance examination . |
| 13 | Nothing prepared me for the reality of A wing . |
| 14 | Have you checked whether their grammar book really prepared them for the complexities of communication ? |
| 15 | He said that even though they had been given advance warning of Sam 's health problems during a scan three months before he was born , nothing prepared them for the shock . |
| 16 | Nothing in the three villagers ' long but sheltered past could have prepared them for the horrendous sight that met their eyes . |
| 17 | Others who were less impressed by what they knew about Law were surprised by what they discovered of his actual abilities , perhaps because his anonymity had prepared them for the worst . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | His sad tones prepared them for the news as he announced that German troops had not withdrawn from Poland and consequently Britain was now at war with Germany . |
| 20 | We prepared ourselves for the experience by drinking half a bottle of brandy each — I was worried about him until then . |
| 21 | He had prepared himself for the Stoics match in typical fashion the night before . |
| 22 | Whistling ‘ I 'm in the Mood for Love ’ , and rejecting the buzz of his telephone , he had prepared himself for the chase . |
| 23 | Certainly , as his mind prepared itself for the acceptance of the |
| 24 | All shale and weeds and winds that picked up speed as they swooped in off the ocean , this strip of barren land prepared you for the final desolation of the Crumbles . |
| 25 | ‘ You 've had everything and everyone your way from much too young , and it has n't prepared you for the big , wide world . |
| 26 | Nothing on the exterior , however , prepared one for the stunning exhibition of color , texture , and mural art in the interior , features that constituted a major step in an architectural revolution that was most fully developed in the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago ( 1933–74 ) . |
| 27 | Tippy lay back and prepared herself for the worst afternoon of her life . |
| 28 | Nothing Isa Blagden had said had prepared her for the fright . |
| 29 | Nothing Ruth had ever imagined prepared her for the magnificence of that day 's scene on the Mersey , though she saw most of it through a mist of tears . |
| 30 | It had prepared her for the coming meeting when she would be alone at last with the youth who was King of England ; the youth she loved … |