Example sentences of "not prepared him " in BNC.
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| 1 | His education had not prepared him for this in any way . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If the pilot 's warning had not prepared him to recognise them , Rostov would have been unable to distinguish the Simonova 's reception party from the deckhands working around them . |
| 4 | But Rostov 's experience of the Empire had not prepared him to find at the same time a complete absence of the poor and underprivileged . |
| 5 | Amanullah 's pursuit of his two most cherished objectives , to modernize his country in the shortest possible time and to make it independent of Britain , soon brought him into headlong conflict with Humphrys , whose previous eighteen years in India , mostly among the tribes across the frontier from Afghanistan , had not prepared him to deal with a ruler of such independence of mind . |
| 6 | Sir Charles , whose practice as a family solicitor in Hertfordshire had not prepared him for this sort of thing , was losing control . |
| 7 | He says sex education at school is useless and has n't prepared him for what to expect . |