Example sentences of "prepare [pers pn] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two teenagers have chosen to bed down for the night in a freezer as part of their training for an expedition to the Artic Circle , They hope that a good night of shivering in sub-zero temperatures will prepare them for the trip . |
| 2 | This suggests that something is amiss with the job definition and , by implication , also with education and training which does not prepare them for the reality . |
| 3 | While I was at Cambridge , I began to follow a rule of life which I hoped would prepare me for the priesthood . |
| 4 | Back in London after that trip she said : ‘ Nothing could have prepared me for the agony of seeing countless dying children . |
| 5 | Nothing in my upbringing had prepared me for the weather , much less the absurd notion of hitchhiking . |
| 6 | Nothing prepared me for the reality of A wing . |
| 7 | He said that even though they had been given advance warning of Sam 's health problems during a scan three months before he was born , nothing prepared them for the shock . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | His sad tones prepared them for the news as he announced that German troops had not withdrawn from Poland and consequently Britain was now at war with Germany . |
| 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 | But nothing could have prepared her for the intimacy of the pictures . |
| 12 | Nothing Isa Blagden had said had prepared her for the fright . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 15 | His great-uncle took Charles under his wing and prepared him for the job ahead . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Life had not prepared him for the task , and it soon became clear that he lacked the natural shrewdness and strength of character that a Gdansk plumber was to show the Polish bosses three years later . |
| 18 | Nothing however could have prepared him for the drama to come . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They are narrative , and tell us of a situation , or prepare us for some significant message : Once having told us the story , set the mood , and prepared us for the shout of a choir of angels , Handel could paint a triumphant musical fresco with just a few poetic words : |
| 21 | But there is nothing on land that can prepare you for the profusion of shapes and colours of the corals themselves . |
| 22 | ‘ No matter how well briefed you 've been ’ , he says , ‘ nothing can prepare you for the shock of international rugby . |
| 23 | Nothing can prepare you for the shock . |
| 24 | I have seen photographs of orca , both still and movie , close-up and underwater , but nothing prepares me for the sight of a real one that scythes out of the water 100 metres or so away from the boat . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Simple , quick and satisfying , self-massage prepares you for the day ahead , restoring energy and easing tension from a weary body . |
| 27 | Jacob 's demand for a blessing is only what we would expect , and yet it prepares us for the turning point in the story , which follows immediately afterwards , and takes us back into the clearer air of the larger narrative . |
| 28 | He has a vision of it as a vehicle which prepares us for the presence of God . ’ |
| 29 | He would probably do the latter , and hurry through the change of clothes which would prepare him for the half-hour 's weight-training which he did between ten forty-five and eleven fifteen every Tuesday and Friday . |
| 30 | ‘ I think that certainly helped in preparing me for the jump — after all I had three years to think about it , ’ said Nigel . |