Example sentences of "ready [to-vb] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should walk briskly every other day , and on alternate days walk for 20 minutes at a slower pace to build up a regular routine , until you feel ready to go on to the 30-day walk back to fitness programme at the end of this chapter . |
| 2 | She was ready to go downstairs to the kitchen when Ellen came into the room . |
| 3 | So these are now ready to go off to the specialists , okay . |
| 4 | The animals had been recovering at a wildlife sanctuary , and were ready to go back into the wild . |
| 5 | Well some of them came by road and RAF trucks , the fuselages , and then there were all they started at the top of the airfield in the old flying club pavilion , and then they were er stripped down and stuff was taken off them , checked out , for airworthiness to see whether it was ready to go back on the planes , and then they came down to the back of the top hanger which was then they were all down to the skeleton of the aircraft and they started rebuilding them again like , there were engine shops and the place at the bottom hanger where they used to make the Swallow side-cars was the spraying and where they completed the aircraft . |
| 6 | Now they 're ready to go back to the wild , to a special purpose built set in Yorkshire which will be protected . |
| 7 | And he 'd got round the corner , ready to go down to the rest of the stairs which went down , and then at the bottom turned round the corner again . |
| 8 | Most people are ready to go out for the evening at that time , ’ laughs Ted . |
| 9 | ‘ just as he was getting ready to go out on the town . |
| 10 | But do n't let that fool you — by nightfall people are waking up ready to go out on the town . |
| 11 | THE first Class of ‘ 92 sits expectantly — 40 young men and women ready to go out into the world . |
| 12 | Remember the cardinal rule in this situation is to push both sticks forward , but do be ready to leap out of the way if necessary ! |
| 13 | At the very last minute Nessie handed the pig bucket to Tim , who was sitting at the back with Kevin and the children ready to jump off at the road end . |
| 14 | after fighting one another for months in the House of Commons , were ready to meet together under the roof of the Sovereign and sink their own differences for a common good and arrange as they had done this morning for a National Government to meet one of the gravest crises that the British Empire had yet been asked to face . |
| 15 | Aung San got through a message that he was ready to come over to the Allies while the Japanese understood that he would be fighting for them . |
| 16 | The night shift volunteer was standing next to me getting ready to come on to the phones and as I came off a call he started to chat to me . |
| 17 | SANDY LYLE is ready to pull out of the US Masters to be at his wife 's side for the birth of their first child . |
| 18 | I made ready to slip away down the passage . |
| 19 | It may have been seven years late and a billion dollars over budget , but the Hubble space telescope was lifting out of the shuttle cargo bay and on its way to orbit at last , ready to look back across the universe to the very beginnings of time . |
| 20 | She had not missed the fact that the coffee-table was piled high with past copies of Query and his arrogant manner was beginning to annoy her to such an extent that she was just about ready to storm off through the door and let Mr Parnham make of it what he could . |
| 21 | She turned round , ready to scuttle back to the house , and immediately cannoned into a hard , warm body . |
| 22 | Instead he was confronted by the tall , dark man whose hand was extended ready to clamp on to the sergeant 's and give it a hearty shake as if he were an old friend . |
| 23 | The Capo Boi is the ideal base for a really lazy , sun and beach holiday , but for when you are ready to venture away from the shore , Citalia this year offers two excursions . |
| 24 | John West 's Freshly Minced Chili , Garlic and Ginger Spices are ready to use straight from the jar . |
| 25 | Rory got ready to run away down the corridor . |
| 26 | Social workers and their managers are clearly ready to knuckle down to the task of making the policy work for users . |
| 27 | The light genoa was stopped to the lifelines and the staysail was ready to send up through the forehatch . |
| 28 | Have I QUIET MUSIC ready to REST in at the end of the hymn ? |
| 29 | His hand was poised ready to knock again on the peeling green front door . |
| 30 | This thought cheers me up , gives me fresh power , so I surge on again past Boots , towards the Library , ready to turn on to the New North Road that takes me back home . |