Example sentences of "[vb past] prepare [pron] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | Whistling ‘ I 'm in the Mood for Love ’ , and rejecting the buzz of his telephone , he had prepared himself for the chase . |
| 4 | He had prepared himself for the Stoics match in typical fashion the night before . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Nothing in my upbringing had prepared me for the weather , much less the absurd notion of hitchhiking . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Nothing Isa Blagden had said had prepared her for the fright . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And he wanted to prepare himself for the daughter . |