Example sentences of "[vb infin] prepared [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing could have prepared him , however , for the complex welter of emotions which followed Emma 's death in 1912 after years of virtual estrangement . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Nothing could have prepared him for its response . |
| 5 | Nothing however could have prepared him for the drama to come . |
| 6 | Nothing in the three villagers ' long but sheltered past could have prepared them for the horrendous sight that met their eyes . |
| 7 | First , the kinds of academic skills important in primary schools — especially reading and writing-are those for which girls ' earlier family socialisation may have prepared them better . |
| 8 | The journey should have prepared me . |
| 9 | Back in London after that trip she said : ‘ Nothing could have prepared me for the agony of seeing countless dying children . |
| 10 | I was called ‘ Aspel ’ throughout , which should have prepared me . |
| 11 | The houses looked completely different from those in Trieste , most of which were grey and severe , and although I had seen picture postcards of Venice nothing could have prepared me for what I now saw for the first time from the steps of the railway station . |
| 12 | You could have prepared me for this — ’ |
| 13 | You 'd think this would have prepared me . |
| 14 | You should have prepared me better . ’ |
| 15 | Mrs Shephard , 52 , a former inspector of schools and senior education officer , has always joked that nothing could have prepared her more for being thrown into the deep end than leaving Cromer , where her father was a cattle dealer , for St Hilda 's College , Oxford , where she read modern languages . |
| 16 | But nothing could have prepared her for the intimacy of the pictures . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Mandy had warned her that storms came up fast on the lake , but nothing could have prepared her for blue skies being annihilated by black storm-clouds in just a matter of minutes . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Training at commercial art school will have prepared you for much of the work you will be doing in advertising . |
| 21 | We were all keen walkers , and enjoyed the challenge of remote places , but nothing in Britain could have prepared us for this close encounter of the furry kind . |
| 22 | We expected a big postbag but nothing could have prepared us for the fantastic response we received ! |
| 23 | Although having accustomed ourselves to ‘ polyfilla based nutrition ’ nothing could have prepared us for the fish which was served at one of the so-called meals . |
| 24 | Nothing could have prepared us for Holmes ( named after Sherlock Holmes as his ears resembled the detectives hat ) . |