Example sentences of "to prepare [pron] for the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As part of this exercise we will perform a ‘ practice run ’ with the company 's executives to check the areas where they will be asked questions and to prepare them for the meetings with would be acquirors . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There has been a fall out with the grass court tournaments as the better juniors are now seeking matches on cement to prepare them for the nationals at Nottingham . |
| 4 | Those families in which a parent died from an illness known in advance to be terminal seemed to be better able to respond to the needs of their children , and to prepare them for the loss with information and emotional support . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Thus the education of a king 's son was supposed to include learning to sleep in a hard or badly made bed to prepare him for the rigours of a life of non-stop , and sometimes unexpected , movement . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This was clearly to prepare him for the task of taking over the captaincy the next summer . |
| 10 | had you had any opportunity to prepare yourself for the sort of questions he might be asking ? |
| 11 | sets us at a painterly remove from decorously observed suffering and does little to prepare us for the replacement of the distant tangled hair of Ariadne by immediate presence of the directly primitive |
| 12 | I did n't know it at the time , but he had come to prepare us for the move to England . |