Example sentences of "[pron] prepare [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I prepared myself for the baton change as Mac set off on his leg , so I did not see what happened there . |
| 2 | Nothing prepared me for the reality of A wing . |
| 3 | … nothing prepared her for the angry letter she received from the Duke of Edinburgh soon afterwards . |
| 4 | He said that even though they had been given advance warning of Sam 's health problems during a scan three months before he was born , nothing prepared them for the shock . |
| 5 | The effects of the adrenaline which prepared us for a fight or flight situation actually work against us when we can not do either . |
| 6 | Towards the end of the second year some major or joint students of History undertake a six-week period of placement or work experience in a record office , museum or folk park ; others follow a specially-designed short course which prepares them for the final year and for the world of work . |
| 7 | The relatively high completion rates for the ‘ Other NSEs ’ reflects the fact that this includes students with ‘ professional , nursing , technical or secretarial qualifications ’ The pattern which emerges is that students who have been selected on the basis of success in some form of study which prepares them for the demands which will be placed on them in higher education respond as least as well if not better than the traditionally qualified A-level entrants , while those with less evidence of success of this kind find the transition to higher education difficult and are more likely to drop-out . |
| 8 | He has a vision of it as a vehicle which prepares us for the presence of God . ’ |
| 9 | I have seen photographs of orca , both still and movie , close-up and underwater , but nothing prepares me for the sight of a real one that scythes out of the water 100 metres or so away from the boat . |
| 10 | ‘ But nothing prepares you for the blinding flash of flares and the noise of the thundercrackers as you run on to the field . |
| 11 | When you want to move somewhere you plan it in advance , you prepare yourself for the change . |
| 12 | We prepared ourselves for the experience by drinking half a bottle of brandy each — I was worried about him until then . |
| 13 | Well , I 'm basically interested in the way in which education , or formal schooling , has attempted to prepare girls for their lives in the future , whether it prepares them for a life of , say , motherhood and working in the family , or whether it 's encouraging them to do work outside the home and try and achieve in the areas that men traditionally achieve . |
| 14 | Jacob 's demand for a blessing is only what we would expect , and yet it prepares us for the turning point in the story , which follows immediately afterwards , and takes us back into the clearer air of the larger narrative . |