Example sentences of "[verb] prepare [pron] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But coming from a theatrical background has prepared her for the highs and lows of an actor 's life . |
| 2 | I did n't know it at the time , but he had come to prepare us for the move to England . |
| 3 | Harry Lamb worked on his father 's farm , managed on five hours ' sleep a night and studied to prepare himself for the Church of Ireland ministry . |
| 4 | They use it to help prepare themselves for the interview — i.e. to get to know you a bit before you arrive and work out the questions they are going to ask you . |
| 5 | ‘ Eight per cent is bad enough but then it goes up to 17.5 per cent so therefore we have got to prepare ourselves for the impact of that and try to minimise the impact on our customers . ’ |
| 6 | Nothing in his IBM Corp background could have prepared him for the kind of speech he gave — in fact had to give , if Taligent is to be seen as the answer to the world 's ills . |
| 7 | Nothing however could have prepared him for the drama to come . |
| 8 | Back in London after that trip she said : ‘ Nothing could have prepared me for the agony of seeing countless dying children . |
| 9 | But nothing could have prepared her for the intimacy of the pictures . |
| 10 | Just for a moment he met her eyes , his own very dark and filled with something that made her heart start to beat rapidly , high in her throat , yet nothing could have prepared her for the shock of what he said . |
| 11 | Nothing could have prepared her for the beauty they had just shared , and she knew that for as long as she lived she would never regret giving herself to this man . |
| 12 | Although having accustomed ourselves to ‘ polyfilla based nutrition ’ nothing could have prepared us for the fish which was served at one of the so-called meals . |
| 13 | Nothing Ruth had ever imagined prepared her for the magnificence of that day 's scene on the Mersey , though she saw most of it through a mist of tears . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Even though she had tried to prepare herself for the possibility , the sense of shock hit her like a physical pain . |
| 16 | Whistling ‘ I 'm in the Mood for Love ’ , and rejecting the buzz of his telephone , he had prepared himself for the chase . |
| 17 | He had prepared himself for the Stoics match in typical fashion the night before . |
| 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 | Nothing in my upbringing had prepared me for the weather , much less the absurd notion of hitchhiking . |
| 20 | Nothing in her 11 years as a member of the world 's most famous family had prepared her for the contents of the letter inside . |
| 21 | Nothing Isa Blagden had said had prepared her for the fright . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And he wanted to prepare himself for the daughter . |
| 25 | Mills ( 1980 ) argues that both initial and in-service teacher education fails to prepare them for the task . |