Example sentences of "prepare [pers pn] for this " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could have prepared me for this — ’ |
| 2 | I have to say that nothing in my career so far has prepared me for this kind of work . |
| 3 | ‘ I was expecting it to be bad , but nothing prepared me for this ! ’ |
| 4 | So , for instance , the Crowther Report of 1959 on the education of 15-18-year-olds talked about the likelihood that middle-class girls would combine a career with motherhood and marriage and the necessity for them to receive an education which prepared them for this future dual role . |
| 5 | Nothing in Australian society nor in the easy commerce between don and undergraduate which she had witnessed and occasionally shared with Michael at Cambridge , had prepared her for this . |
| 6 | Nothing in her life had prepared her for this wanton fire , burning and aching inside her . |
| 7 | She had dreamt of this moment , fantasised it in her mind so many lonely dark nights , and now it was happening and nothing had prepared her for this self-destruction . |
| 8 | His education had not prepared him for this in any way . |
| 9 | Nothing in his many years ' service had prepared him for this sort of situation . |
| 10 | Again , Karr had prepared him for this . |
| 11 | Sir Charles , whose practice as a family solicitor in Hertfordshire had not prepared him for this sort of thing , was losing control . |
| 12 | We were all keen walkers , and enjoyed the challenge of remote places , but nothing in Britain could have prepared us for this close encounter of the furry kind . |
| 13 | But nothing has prepared us for this divine outburst . |
| 14 | Nothing in our four days on the felucca with this sullen boy had prepared us for this , as nothing could have prepared him for that afternoon in Asyut . |
| 15 | She had not been far behind him , and yet had heard no sound to prepare her for this . |