Example sentences of "[adv] been prepare for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He had not been prepared for John to stand on the floor of the penthouse , complaining . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I had not been prepared for the volume of decisions I had to make . |
| 6 | I had not been prepared for a walk across a wasteland under a hot white sun . |
| 7 | But she had not been prepared for the intensity of her response . |
| 8 | There is no point in simply applying lower speed limits on residential roads if the drivers have not been prepared for the fact that they must slow down . |
| 9 | But all the same , Sara had not been prepared for the girls ' curiosity about Matthew . |
| 10 | The trackbed within the Avon Valley has already been prepared for the relaying , with the ballast cleaned and put into piles ready for reuse . |
| 11 | That tray had just been prepared for me personally by the cook ! |
| 12 | ‘ I have always been prepared for that . |
| 13 | In no way had she ever been prepared for the life she was now expected to lead and Charles had some difficulty in understanding her feelings . |
| 14 | But when Joelle introduced us I realized that I had n't really been prepared for the meeting at all . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Although a number of surveys have shown that practice has been slow to change , the ground has at least been prepared for change . |