Example sentences of "prepare [pers pn] for [art] " 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 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 .
6 Back in London after that trip she said : ‘ Nothing could have prepared me for the agony of seeing countless dying children .
7 Nothing in my upbringing had prepared me for the weather , much less the absurd notion of hitchhiking .
8 It has n't prepared me for the outside world ; all it 's done is given me an awareness of myself .
9 My father 's passion for Tracey Childs prepared me for a life of drama
10 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 .
11 Nothing prepared me for the reality of A wing .
12 Evaluation returns from the 1990 cohort ( 2,966 ) shows that 96% of teachers and 93% of companies reported that briefings successfully prepared them for a placement , while 89% of teachers successfully met their placement objectives .
13 Have you checked whether their grammar book really prepared them for the complexities of communication ?
14 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 .
15 Nothing in the three villagers ' long but sheltered past could have prepared them for the horrendous sight that met their eyes .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 ‘ You 've had everything and everyone your way from much too young , and it has n't prepared you for the big , wide world .
21 Nothing Isa Blagden had said had prepared her for the fright .
22 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 .
23 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 …
24 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 .
25 But nothing had prepared her for the angry letter she received from the Duke of Edinburgh , says Morton .
26 But nothing could have prepared her for the intimacy of the pictures .
27 But nothing had prepared her for the monumental size and sheer glamour of the building .
28 But coming from a theatrical background has prepared her for the highs and lows of an actor 's life .
29 The room , the cottage , Ryan , her lack of confidence , all faded ; there was only now , this one moment in time , and nothing in her life had ever prepared her for the feelings she experienced .
30 Just for a moment he met her eyes , his own very dark and filled with something that made her heart start to beat rapidly , high in her throat , yet nothing could have prepared her for the shock of what he said .
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