Example sentences of "not prepare [pron] for " in BNC.

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1 While you are confused , why not prepare yourself for a chat with your bank manager ?
2 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 .
3 Whatever you may have read or heard about their relationship still can not prepare you for her own account .
4 for the animal in its mud burrow , valuable time will be lost if it can not prepare itself for foraging until after the tide has left the shore .
5 Three years of being a member of the Campaign Team at AI had not prepared me for seeing human rights abuses first hand .
6 Living in close intimacy with Jean-Claude had not prepared me for confronting in musical shape the qualities I sensed and loved in him but could not define .
7 For all her self-confidence , her upbringing had not prepared her for that . ’
8 His education had not prepared him for this in any way .
9 Life had not prepared him for the task , and it soon became clear that he lacked the natural shrewdness and strength of character that a Gdansk plumber was to show the Polish bosses three years later .
10 Sir Charles , whose practice as a family solicitor in Hertfordshire had not prepared him for this sort of thing , was losing control .
11 Shelley stayed in her villa , regretting the incident , yet blaming her chief for not preparing her for such a patient .
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