Example sentences of "prepare him for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His great-uncle took Charles under his wing and prepared him for the job ahead . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Nothing however could have prepared him for the drama to come . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The 12-year-old hero of Home Alone and My Girl is taking ballet lessons to prepare him for the role of Prince in Tchaikovsky 's Nutcracker Suite . |
| 7 | This was clearly to prepare him for the task of taking over the captaincy the next summer . |