Example sentences of "[verb] prepared [pers pn] for [det] " in BNC.
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1 | I have to say that nothing in my career so far has prepared me for this kind of work . |
2 | But nothing has prepared us for this divine outburst . |
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 | You could have prepared me for this — ’ |
5 | Training at commercial art school will have prepared you for much of the work you will be doing in advertising . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . ’ |
8 | Nothing in his many years ' service had prepared him for this sort of situation . |
9 | Again , Karr had prepared him for this . |
10 | Nothing had prepared me for that . |
11 | 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 … |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Nothing in her life had prepared her for this wanton fire , burning and aching inside her . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |