Example sentences of "had [adv] [be] prepared [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then you had better be prepared for disruption , because I fear she could be here permanently . ’ |
| 2 | On Oct. 17 , 1989 , a speech by the Public Welfare Minister , Gen. ( retd ) Supardjo Rustam , which had apparently been prepared by Suharto himself , called on Golkar to take a more " central position " rather than remain " sitting on the sidelines " . |
| 3 | But what was probably more significant was the fact that the target of the DHAC , the Unionist administration at the Guildhall , was so widely execrated and the fact that the ammunition it fired had already been prepared by more traditional anti-Unionists . |
| 4 | Nathan had not been prepared for the bus trip into and out of the town and the long walk through the snow to a campsite either . |
| 5 | He had not been prepared for Cheltenham the same as some horses are , because there had been a last-minute change of plan for him and he would not have been really galloped hard . |
| 6 | He had not been prepared for John to stand on the floor of the penthouse , complaining . |
| 7 | Although she had not been prepared for his barrage of questions and had answered them almost truculently , she had made Nicky think twice about her simply because she seemed more direct and independent than most of the girls he knew . |
| 8 | I had not been prepared for the volume of decisions I had to make . |
| 9 | I had not been prepared for a walk across a wasteland under a hot white sun . |
| 10 | But she had not been prepared for the intensity of her response . |
| 11 | But all the same , Sara had not been prepared for the girls ' curiosity about Matthew . |
| 12 | That tray had just been prepared for me personally by the cook ! |
| 13 | She had n't been prepared for the way poetry came into this fitting together of parts , Shall I believe that unsubstantial Death is amorous , and that the lean abhorrèd monster keeps Thee here in dark to be his paramour , she recited in her head , as O'Hara climbed on top and humped her beneath the rude unshaded bulb . |
| 14 | I felt foolish that I had n't been prepared for the fact that his skin would be so bad or his teeth so deteriorated . |
| 15 | The girl had n't been born into this archiac world ; she had n't been prepared for a lover who was demanding and possessive , as Nicolo must have been . |
| 16 | Aluminium had recently been prepared in bulk by the eminent Parisian Professor Henri Ste-Claire Deville , who became famous as both a teacher and researcher . |