Example sentences of "[verb] to prepare [pron] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't know it at the time , but he had come to prepare us for the move to England . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Even though she had tried to prepare herself for the possibility , the sense of shock hit her like a physical pain . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And he wanted to prepare himself for the daughter . |
| 7 | Mills ( 1980 ) argues that both initial and in-service teacher education fails to prepare them for the task . |