Example sentences of "[adv] prepare [pers pn] for the " in BNC.

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1 The room , the cottage , Ryan , her lack of confidence , all faded ; there was only now , this one moment in time , and nothing in her life had ever prepared her for the feelings she experienced .
2 In the second year , language work extends students ' oral and written skills , with increased attention to style and idiom , and also prepares them for the year abroad .
3 This was clearly to prepare him for the task of taking over the captaincy the next summer .
4 Have you checked whether their grammar book really prepared them for the complexities of communication ?
5 Nothing had quite prepared us for the sheer presence of king penguins .
6 Nothing , however , quite prepared us for the momentous last months of this decade .
7 Thus our falling plasma adrenalin and body temperature in the evening prepare us for sleep by toning us down , just as rising values from 5 o'clock in the morning onwards prepare us for the rigours of a new day .
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