Example sentences of "prepared [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three years of being a member of the Campaign Team at AI had not prepared me for seeing human rights abuses first hand . |
| 2 | Nothing had prepared me for that . |
| 3 | Nothing had prepared me for the overwhelming architectural beauty of Salamanca , and in particular for the grandeur of the university , the oldest in Spain and one of the oldest in Europe , with its noble façade in plateresque style . |
| 4 | I had seen newspaper photos of him since his release from the psikhushka , but they had n't prepared me for his gauntness , pallor , baldness . |
| 5 | The experience of playing with one , or on one , was astonishing ; nothing I had read had prepared me for it at all . |
| 6 | Back in London after that trip she said : ‘ Nothing could have prepared me for the agony of seeing countless dying children . |
| 7 | If my aunts ' upbringing had prepared me for anything , it was for just this sort of agitation . |
| 8 | Living in close intimacy with Jean-Claude had not prepared me for confronting in musical shape the qualities I sensed and loved in him but could not define . |
| 9 | I saw that gentleness Conchis had prepared me for . |
| 10 | Nothing in my upbringing had prepared me for the weather , much less the absurd notion of hitchhiking . |
| 11 | The houses looked completely different from those in Trieste , most of which were grey and severe , and although I had seen picture postcards of Venice nothing could have prepared me for what I now saw for the first time from the steps of the railway station . |
| 12 | You could have prepared me for this — ’ |
| 13 | The twenty-first century 4-D representations had prepared me for something horrific ; yet my impression was of features more frightening than strictly horrifying . |
| 14 | I have to say that nothing in my career so far has prepared me for this kind of work . |
| 15 | It has n't prepared me for the outside world ; all it 's done is given me an awareness of myself . |
| 16 | Nothing in the three villagers ' long but sheltered past could have prepared them for the horrendous sight that met their eyes . |
| 17 | Others who were less impressed by what they knew about Law were surprised by what they discovered of his actual abilities , perhaps because his anonymity had prepared them for the worst . |
| 18 | Her duties as parents had been completed , she had prepared them for the future , they could now stand on their own feet , so she let them go . |
| 19 | His sad tones prepared them for the news as he announced that German troops had not withdrawn from Poland and consequently Britain was now at war with Germany . |
| 20 | Wordsworth had some idea of what was going on , as he had prepared himself for this second visit by reading pamphlets , and probably had a letter of introduction to Brissot ; but at first he was only sentimentally affected by the ideals of the Revolution . |
| 21 | He had prepared himself for the Stoics match in typical fashion the night before . |
| 22 | Thinking in terms of his mother 's back yard in Hoylake , the washing sagging between poplar trees , Meredith had prepared himself for details of death . |
| 23 | Whistling ‘ I 'm in the Mood for Love ’ , and rejecting the buzz of his telephone , he had prepared himself for the chase . |
| 24 | The financial sector prepared itself for full deregulation and open competition with foreign institutions . |
| 25 | All shale and weeds and winds that picked up speed as they swooped in off the ocean , this strip of barren land prepared you for the final desolation of the Crumbles . |
| 26 | Training at commercial art school will have prepared you for much of the work you will be doing in advertising . |
| 27 | ‘ You 've had everything and everyone your way from much too young , and it has n't prepared you for the big , wide world . |
| 28 | Nothing on the exterior , however , prepared one for the stunning exhibition of color , texture , and mural art in the interior , features that constituted a major step in an architectural revolution that was most fully developed in the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago ( 1933–74 ) . |
| 29 | It had none of the institutional smell Alida had prepared herself for . |
| 30 | He saw and understood that she had prepared herself for him . |