Example sentences of "prepared [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Nothing had prepared me for that .
2 You could have prepared me for this — ’
3 I have to say that nothing in my career so far has prepared me for this kind of work .
4 Training at commercial art school will have prepared you for much of the work you will be doing in advertising .
5 For all her self-confidence , her upbringing had not prepared her for that . ’
6 Jane believes that her mother was often stressed to the point of despair at this time , ‘ … that she suffered all the torments and tribulations of every working mother without anything in her background , education or make-up having prepared her for such an emotional wrenching . ’
7 Mandy had warned her that storms came up fast on the lake , but nothing could have prepared her for blue skies being annihilated by black storm-clouds in just a matter of minutes .
8 Cecilia has done well — she is now on a polytechnic degree course — but nothing in her years in care prepared her for independent living .
9 Shocking as the assault had been , it had prepared her for another encounter — an encounter with a youth of her own age , bewildered and uneasy , one called to high estate who found himself of a sudden alone on the edge of an abyss …
10 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 .
11 Nothing in her life had prepared her for this wanton fire , burning and aching inside her .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 His education had not prepared him for this in any way .
15 Nothing in his many years ' service had prepared him for this sort of situation .
16 Again , Karr had prepared him for this .
17 Sir Charles , whose practice as a family solicitor in Hertfordshire had not prepared him for this sort of thing , was losing control .
18 Has our education prepared us for such perplexing indecision ?
19 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 .
20 But nothing has prepared us for this divine outburst .
21 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 .
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