Example sentences of "[adv] prepare [pron] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British Museum had better prepare itself for the worst . |
| 2 | This suggests that something is amiss with the job definition and , by implication , also with education and training which does not prepare them for the reality . |
| 3 | Life had not prepared him for the task , and it soon became clear that he lacked the natural shrewdness and strength of character that a Gdansk plumber was to show the Polish bosses three years later . |
| 4 | Already preparing himself for the first of his political glittering prizes , the viceroyalty of India , he visited the Trans-Caspian in 1888 and published a book on it in 1889 . |
| 5 | The room , the cottage , Ryan , her lack of confidence , all faded ; there was only now , this one moment in time , and nothing in her life had ever prepared her for the feelings she experienced . |
| 6 | In the second year , language work extends students ' oral and written skills , with increased attention to style and idiom , and also prepares them for the year abroad . |
| 7 | This was clearly to prepare him for the task of taking over the captaincy the next summer . |
| 8 | Have you checked whether their grammar book really prepared them for the complexities of communication ? |
| 9 | All you have ever read about the delights of fast-jet aerobatics still ca n't prepare you for the utter , mind-blowing super-smooth , almost silent exhilaration of the real thing ! |
| 10 | It has n't prepared me for the outside world ; all it 's done is given me an awareness of myself . |
| 11 | ‘ You 've had everything and everyone your way from much too young , and it has n't prepared you for the big , wide world . |
| 12 | Nothing had quite prepared us for the sheer presence of king penguins . |
| 13 | Nothing , however , quite prepared us for the momentous last months of this decade . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But he 'd been practising his backhand all year , mentally preparing himself for the North Shore . |