Example sentences of "[pron] was [not/n't] prepare for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could see from the diagram how the back of the work should look , what I was not prepared for was how the front of the work could look . |
| 2 | But I was not prepared for the raking over of academic arguments on defining poverty around when John Moore , then Secretary of State for Social Services , said poverty no longer existed . |
| 3 | I did n't know what I expected ( chanting and rune casting , perhaps ) , but I was n't prepared for the tingling sensation affecting the areas of my body immediately underneath her small hands . |
| 4 | I was n't prepared for it . ’ |
| 5 | I was n't prepared for it . |
| 6 | I was n't prepared for what had happened to her in the year since I had last seen her . |
| 7 | I was n't prepared for it . |
| 8 | What I was n't prepared for was the jolt your appearance gave me . |
| 9 | What I was n't prepared for was my reaction to her rejection . |
| 10 | Over the past few years , the quality of in-service training courses for teachers has improved greatly , but I was n't prepared for the effort [ and financial resources ] that had obviously been put into the ‘ Quality in Action ’ workshop . |
| 11 | I was n't prepared for for it at all |
| 12 | Er erm and then later on I , I , I think maybe she did realize , you know , cos I said I was n't prepared for that and that has n't happened before . |
| 13 | Shelley heard his footstep in the grass as he turned to face her , and slowly took off his glasses and pushed them into his back pocket ; but she was n't prepared for being taken bodily into his arms and soundly kissed . |
| 14 | She was not prepared for , although not surprised by , Miss Bedwelty 's forthright reaction when she saw the animals in the refrigerator factory . |
| 15 | She was not prepared for a very similar question being thrown at her . |
| 16 | But he was n't prepared for the shock of seeing those eyes , his daughter 's eyes of startling green flecked with gold , that looked out from Simon 's face . |
| 17 | Sutton knew it was not that good , but he was n't prepared for what came next . |
| 18 | He was n't prepared for the formality of life in an English public school — particularly its petty humiliations . |
| 19 | What he was not prepared for by his previous nursing experience was the lengths to which the staff in his ward had taken the system . |
| 20 | He was not prepared for anything so impressive . |
| 21 | He was not prepared for what he saw . |