Example sentences of "had [adv] prepare [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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1 | For all her self-confidence , her upbringing had not prepared her for that . ’ |
2 | His education had not prepared him for this in any way . |
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 | Sir Charles , whose practice as a family solicitor in Hertfordshire had not prepared him for this sort of thing , was losing control . |
5 | Three years of being a member of the Campaign Team at AI had not prepared me for seeing human rights abuses first hand . |
6 | Living in close intimacy with Jean-Claude had not prepared me for confronting in musical shape the qualities I sensed and loved in him but could not define . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | I had seen newspaper photos of him since his release from the psikhushka , but they had n't prepared me for his gauntness , pallor , baldness . |
9 | Nothing had quite prepared us for the sheer presence of king penguins . |