Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] prepare [pron] for the " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | If in past decades we waited for the telegram to arrive , it did not lessen the shock , but it did prepare us for the event . |
3 | It had prepared her for the coming meeting when she would be alone at last with the youth who was King of England ; the youth she loved … |
4 | He had prepared himself for the Stoics match in typical fashion the night before . |
5 | Whistling ‘ I 'm in the Mood for Love ’ , and rejecting the buzz of his telephone , he had prepared himself for the chase . |
6 | He had to prepare them for the study of Old English ( Anglo-Saxon ) , Middle English ( that is , the language and literature of England from about 1200 until 1450 , including Chaucer ) and all the remaining periods of English literature up to the Victorian period . |
7 | And he wanted to prepare himself for the daughter . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | But nothing had prepared her for the angry letter she received from the Duke of Edinburgh , says Morton . |
10 | But nothing had prepared her for the monumental size and sheer glamour of the building . |
11 | However , nothing had prepared us for the abundance and variety of scallops , mussels , every species in the shrimp to lobster continuum as well as some very funny-looking goose-neck barnacles . |