Example sentences of "[pers pn] was prepare for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My lack of culinary expertise has always been a source of great mirth to the men in my life and my well-attended failures embroidered into legends over the years , so I was prepared for the banter that accompanied dinner . |
| 2 | Even so , I do n't believe I was prepared for the facts . |
| 3 | So you could say I was prepared for the ‘ English way of Life ’ from what I 'd read . |
| 4 | And I made up my mind — " Now Mary Edgar you 'll be terribly sea-sick , " so I was prepared for the worst . |
| 5 | We had adopted them while I was preparing for the desert . |
| 6 | He then asked if she was prepared for the parting and she told him , ‘ Willingly , John , in such a cause as this . ’ |
| 7 | She was prepared for the move when it came and followed Claudia Hamilton and the other ladies upstairs . |
| 8 | But actually it does n't tell you anything about the quality of the care which they 're purchasing and the evidence that we are getting increasingly from the community health council is the experience of people of the health service is that actually the quality of the care is getting worse and this is not due to the staff in the health ee the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the e the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the for an operation er , four years , it should to be said er , she 's been waiting despite the government 's claim that all operations are done within two years er for very severe varicose veins and surprisingly enough she got them because of course most varicose have been removed her , the north-east Thames region erm , and er she turned up on the Wednesday and the operation had been postponed twice previously er , she was er gone through all the er , various tests which took her four hours cos she had to find all the places herself , there was nobody to show her to X-ray and various other places erm she was prepared for the op and then was sent home because there was n't a bed available ! |
| 9 | If she was prepared for the worst then , God willing , it would n't happen . |
| 10 | Later she was to think how little she was prepared for the simple events which were to change her life completely — indeed she would have said that so much had happened to her already that any further incidents must be minor , a judgement which could not have been more faulty . |
| 11 | It was prepared for the UN 's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change by Martin Parry , the director of the Environmental Change Unit at the University of Oxford and an expert on the greenhouse effect in agriculture . |
| 12 | The synagogue was administered by a council of ‘ elders ’ who appointed a ‘ ruler ’ whose duty it was to prepare for the daily services and provide some general supervision . |
| 13 | Six years later , in 1868 , he needed the poems to complete a volume he was preparing for the printer . |
| 14 | And so , unable either to believe in the significance of what he was doing or to regard it with indifference as an empty formality , all the time he was preparing for the sacrament he was conscious of a feeling of discomfort and shame in taking part in something he did not understand , which was therefore , an inner voice told him , deceitful and wrong of him . |