Example sentences of "had prepare [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Nothing in his many years ' service had prepared him for this sort of situation .
2 Again , Karr had prepared him for this .
3 Nothing had prepared me for that .
4 Shocking as the assault had been , it had prepared her for another encounter — an encounter with a youth of her own age , bewildered and uneasy , one called to high estate who found himself of a sudden alone on the edge of an abyss …
5 Nothing in Australian society nor in the easy commerce between don and undergraduate which she had witnessed and occasionally shared with Michael at Cambridge , had prepared her for this .
6 Nothing in her life had prepared her for this wanton fire , burning and aching inside her .
7 She had dreamt of this moment , fantasised it in her mind so many lonely dark nights , and now it was happening and nothing had prepared her for this self-destruction .
8 Nothing in our four days on the felucca with this sullen boy had prepared us for this , as nothing could have prepared him for that afternoon in Asyut .
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