Example sentences of "prepared for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He explained the gestures in the libretto he prepared for his audience . |
| 2 | EUROPE 'S next cultural capital , successor to Athens , Florence , Amsterdam , Paris and West Berlin , yesterday prepared for action in 1990 , writes Peter Hetherington . |
| 3 | It was an unhappy and tense discussion and can have done absolutely nothing for Geoffrey Howe 's morale as he prepared for the afternoon . |
| 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 | That was why he had walked everywhere on his early journeys ; and now it was the main reason why he was so happy to eat the food which men prepared for him either before or after they had sex , to sit at their dining room tables . |
| 6 | Milan prepared for strong resistance to the Roncaglia decrees , which included conceding of all regalia or royal rights to Frederick , such as rents , tolls on roads , rivers , in ports and in market places . |
| 7 | That evening , at nine o'clock , with the chores finished , I prepared for a celebration . |
| 8 | Following the ratification of the treaty Eurotunnel prepared for its public flotation . |
| 9 | The Poles stood with their capital at their backs while the Russians prepared for the assault that would end the war . |
| 10 | It seemed to fly OK , so we prepared for the 482 kilometres water crossing to Australia . |
| 11 | The hot Cyprus autumn moved from one week to the next , and Zacco prepared for his forthcoming triumph by installing himself in the moated citadel built by his great-grandfather at Sigouri , ten miles west of the besieged Famagusta . |
| 12 | They prepared for the exercise by doing some simple changes — canter , walk , canter — across the centre line . |
| 13 | Yesterday , as he prepared for a new TV series starting on Sunday , Sir David said he was ‘ truly blessed ’ with an honour . |
| 14 | Norwich prepared for fight to finish |
| 15 | A major emphasis was placed on Intercession and listening to God This was invaluable as we prepared for the first section of outreach in Budapest , Hungary . |
| 16 | Prior to filming I Confess in 1953 , he prepared for his role as a priest by spending a week at a monastery just outside Quebec . |
| 17 | Watching Violet sitting through the preliminaries to the world title elimination bout was rather like watching her son as he prepared for the fight . |
| 18 | As Diana prepared for battle she knew she needed a strategy . |
| 19 | The attack , at 1am , came as London prepared for the annual Lord Mayor 's parade , which Princess Anne is due to attend . |
| 20 | Four attempts proved the deviation impossible and McFall prepared for a spot of slip fielding . |
| 21 | And as he prepared for today 's Charity Shield clash , the £2.9million Saunders , 28 , admitted that the question mark over his future is unsettling him . |
| 22 | This is a campaign booklet which I prepared for the RCN 's Association of Nursing Students in 1985 ; much of it also applies to returning nurses . |
| 23 | The Wallabies knew there was high interest in Australia when they prepared for the semi-final and final matches . |
| 24 | In Altdorf the Emperor Sigismund prepared for the Orc invasion by fortifying the city 's walls and gathering in the harvests . |
| 25 | No one in Brussels knew that the French had invaded ; instead they prepared for a duchess 's ball while a fat Prussian major paid for his roast chicken , finished his wine , then ambled slowly northwards . |
| 26 | The business seemed to be doing well and all day vans called for items which Joe had listed and William prepared for despatch . |
| 27 | A clash with Constantius II was inevitable and Magnentius prepared for this immediately by raising a large army with substantial aid obtained from and freely given by the provincials , especially those in Gaul and Britain . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I prepared for the match with an early night , a breakfast rich in carbohydrates , and , later that morning , a secret visit to a local club , where , with a pensive pint of low-alc lager , I practised alone : to get the spasms our of my cueing arm , to neutralize the excitement ( ie panic ) of one 's induction into the verdant six-bagged oblong . |
| 30 | Lacuna glared at the Doctor , and Francis prepared for another blast of ear-splitting invective . |