Example sentences of "[pron] prepare [pron] for the [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He has a vision of it as a vehicle which prepares us for the presence of God . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When you want to move somewhere you plan it in advance , you prepare yourself for the change . |
| 8 | We prepared ourselves for the experience by drinking half a bottle of brandy each — I was worried about him until then . |
| 9 | 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 . |