Example sentences of "could [verb] [vb pp] [pron] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | You could have prepared me for this — ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You know they could have shot me for that . |
| 6 | Or we could have left you for dead . |