Example sentences of "prepared [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Manchester Airport on 25 August 1985 , a British Airtours charter jet crashed as it prepared for take-off . |
| 2 | Deathly pale , Ruth sat next to Steve as they prepared for take-off . |
| 3 | Norwich prepared for fight to finish |
| 4 | The English philosopher G. E. Moore returned to the problem in a famous paper , A Defence of Common Sense which , in its turn , forms a background for Wittgenstein 's effort to demystify the issue in Über Gewissheit which , along with the Philosophical Investigations and , of course , the Tractatus , are the only texts he ever actually prepared for publication . |
| 5 | No one can have done more for the historian studying Islay than Mrs Lucy Ramsay who had " The Book of Islay " and " The Stent Book & Acts of the Bailliary of Islay " prepared for publication Two hundred and fifty copies of each were printed privately , about fifty were presented to friends and libraries and the remainder lost in a fire at a warehouse in Glasgow . |
| 6 | No one can have done more for the historian studying Islay than Mrs Lucy Ramsay who had " The Book of Islay " and " The Stent Book & Acts of the Bailliary of Islay " prepared for publication Two hundred and fifty copies of each were printed privately , about fifty were presented to friends and libraries and the remainder lost in a fire at a warehouse in Glasgow . |
| 7 | A sense of relief swept her , and later , as she prepared for bed , she told herself she was becoming too tense about this man . |
| 8 | Exhausted , the young women did not talk much as they prepared for bed . |
| 9 | But maybe she 'd jumped to conclusions , she thought uneasily as she prepared for bed ; maybe it had n't been anything like that at all . |
| 10 | She prepared for bed in haste , then got into bed without turning off the bedside lamp , willing the friendly glow to hold off the dreams which came with the night . |
| 11 | Leonora felt horribly depressed as she prepared for bed . |
| 12 | The study explored the experience of secondees as they prepared for secondment , adjusted to it , stabilised within it and finally departed from it . |
| 13 | The first four volumes , published between 1974 and 1985 , dealt with Monet 's long career chronologically and listed and illustrated nearly 2000 paintings , culminating in the series of canvases which the artist prepared for installation in the Orangerie . |
| 14 | As Diana prepared for battle she knew she needed a strategy . |
| 15 | The business seemed to be doing well and all day vans called for items which Joe had listed and William prepared for despatch . |
| 16 | By 1856 , owning the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 's maps , he prepared for Harrow School the Harrow Atlas of Modern Geography and one of classical geography ; and he delivered the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society , later publishing its ‘ new series ’ . |
| 17 | EUROPE 'S next cultural capital , successor to Athens , Florence , Amsterdam , Paris and West Berlin , yesterday prepared for action in 1990 , writes Peter Hetherington . |
| 18 | On Tuesday night I prepared for Wednesday morning and then together with the players we planned Thursday . |
| 19 | As he prepared for murder , he was doing so to the incongruous background of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir 's rendering of The Battle Hymn of the Republic . |
| 20 | Ephesians 2:10 states , ‘ For we are God 's workmanship , created in Christ Jesus to do good works , which God prepared in advance for us to do . ’ |