Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] prepare [pers pn] for " in BNC.

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1 Thus our falling plasma adrenalin and body temperature in the evening prepare us for sleep by toning us down , just as rising values from 5 o'clock in the morning onwards prepare us for the rigours of a new day .
2 Many teachers feel that their training inadequately prepares them for dealing with behaviour problems in schools ( Mongon 1984 ) .
3 His background hardly prepared him for a life of elegant luxury as a film star or obedience to the star system .
4 Have you checked whether their grammar book really prepared them for the complexities of communication ?
5 This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding .
6 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 .
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