Example sentences of "[verb] ready for the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In Moscow , Red Square was made ready for the triumphalist May Day parade . |
| 2 | Pair after pair of serwal were made ready for the tailor 's sewing machine . |
| 3 | Fairfax calls a waiter and orders the memsahib 's car to be made ready for the short journey to Warthog Manor , her solid but decrepit stone house . |
| 4 | After the check up , Jeanette is made ready for the treatment . |
| 5 | After the check up , Jeanette is made ready for the treatment . |
| 6 | Even so , there are still more being made ready for the 1993 shutdown . |
| 7 | To this end , schools were set up for peasant women and for prostitutes , who were numerous since Havana had previously been a notorious entertainment centre for North Americans , to give them an education and to provide them with some skills and training ready for the job market . |
| 8 | A Discovery Guide is being developed for YBG , which will be produced ready for the 1992 visitor season . |
| 9 | But in the evening he came out and made his way to the royal store-rooms , where the food was being got ready for the King and his chief followers and wives . |
| 10 | On the Monday night the orchestra arrived ready for the dress rehearsal of Gypsy Baron the next morning . |
| 11 | NOW that England and Scotland are getting ready for the World Cup finals , the question on the lips of two rejoicing nations is : ‘ What will the lads wear for the big date in Italy ? ’ |
| 12 | Within another month or two he did The Rainbow which got enormous coverage , and within another month he was here getting ready for the first American tour . |
| 13 | ‘ My morning thing is not really about getting ready for the day , but getting rid of the night . |
| 14 | Then I remembered they would be getting ready for the Roman banquet later on in the evening . |
| 15 | They chatted for a while longer , then Mrs Lennox and Susan set about packing , getting ready for the next day 's evacuation . |
| 16 | While Robyn is getting up , and getting ready for the day , thinking mostly about the nineteenth-century industrial novels on which she has to lecture this morning , I will tell you about Charles , and other salient facts of her biography . |
| 17 | In a big terraced house in Dunlaoghaire , another household was getting ready for the opening of the university term . |
| 18 | ‘ You know , Comrade Andropov is getting ready for the Party Congress , so he can not receive you at the moment , but you can make a detailed written statement of everything , saying who it is you suspect , and so on and so forth ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Because of all the waiting for the team to happen , we lost a lot of time getting ready for the new season . |
| 20 | ‘ I think they 're getting ready for the Second Front , ’ Sarah told Maureen , ‘ although Joe did n't say so . ’ |
| 21 | Last year this was arranged as usual but I was so busy looking after my guests during the day that I had to rush getting ready for the evening out . |
| 22 | All the boats were getting ready for the regatta that afternoon , bailing out dinghies , coiling ropes , and smells of food frying wafted across the smell of the estuary . |
| 23 | Just as he practised the violin every morning between nine thirty and ten thirty , so I always had the sense he practised his lovemaking on me , getting ready for the real thing , only this with me was not it : I was not it . |
| 24 | Hospice helpers : Getting ready for the five miles charity fun run organised by Croft Hotels and the Shaftesbury Inn are Sean O'Neill ( 15 ) and Darren Maken ( 15 ) , both from Glengormley with Lynda Watt ( 23 ) from Belfast . |
| 25 | ‘ Getting ready for the runners , ’ she explained . |
| 26 | ‘ More likely everyone 's too busy getting ready for the captain 's reception tonight . ’ |
| 27 | We 're always so careful , but … well , I suppose we were so busy getting ready for the cruise … ’ |
| 28 | Lynda said that getting ready for the first visitors was proving quite a challenge . |
| 29 | You do n't really get a break because you 're getting ready for the afternoon . |
| 30 | The care pulls up at the studio and Kylie greets everyone with a breezy ‘ G'Day ’ and gets ready for the last few moments as Lola teenage runaway . |