Example sentences of "[noun sg] at the ready " in BNC.
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| 1 | EDWIN POUNCEY previews the result with credit card at the ready . |
| 2 | My bet is that it was started by one cave dweller stalking another through the gravel of Peking or Java , his stone club at the ready . |
| 3 | Offers of help have been pouring in from all quarters , with the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum , Elizabeth Esteve-Coll putting her conservation department at the ready to assist , and the Secretary of State for National Heritage , Peter Brooke , conceded that his department would be responsible for financing the repair bill . |
| 4 | But Bellarmine had a reply at the ready : ‘ For if it is not a matter of faith from the point of view of the subject matter , it is on the part of those who have spoken . ’ |
| 5 | My binoculars I wore round my neck at the ready for all those puffins , razor bills and guillemots I expected to see on the way over . |
| 6 | He avoided the path to the President 's house , running in a low crouch , weaving between the trees , shotgun at the ready . |
| 7 | These showed a cloth-capped building worker , brick and trowel at the ready , saying ‘ Why should I worry about oil running out ? |
| 8 | Suddenly at this culmination point in the healing rite , the whole assembly became unaccountably convulsed with mirth , and the puzzled anthropologist , note-book at the ready , pushed her way forward to the front of the crowd . |
| 9 | As yet unsigned , Lisa B has several major record companies with a pen at the ready . |
| 10 | The third soldier covered them , his weapon at the ready for any surprise intruders . |
| 11 | Petion returned fire , and the grenade thrower pitched into the water with another grenade at the ready . |
| 12 | At one end the professional scriveners sat at their desks , quills and parchment at the ready , to draw up wills , indentures , bills of sale , a letter to a friend or a billet doux to a lover . |
| 13 | They grasped hands and pumped up and down , and Mary Rose picked her way through the muddy forecourt and approached , her smile at the ready . |
| 14 | The next time I went slowly past their table , refill coffee pot at the ready , the conversation was back to the journey , with Xanthe this time saying she basically thought horseracing boring and she would n't have come on this trip if her father had n't made her . |
| 15 | The killer must have been kneeling there , pistol at the ready , and as Francis emerged he or she had fired at a range of a few inches . |
| 16 | Have plenty of coins , a phonecard and pen and paper at the ready when you begin your telephone search . |
| 17 | ‘ You talk of confidence , do you , with laughing boy sitting here with his pencil and paper at the ready ? |
| 18 | With our guide at the ready , every Hooray Triumphus in the land will soon be eating out of your hand . |
| 19 | Some women would have come downstairs with the poker at the ready . ’ |
| 20 | But Jonathan Ram continued to stride down the tumbledown street , his knife at the ready , drawing close to his beloved children . |
| 21 | For 17 years now he has been hovering — camera at the ready — on the edge of parties , outside nightclubs or in restaurant doorways . |
| 22 | Photographing wildlife sounds easy — have your camera at the ready when you 're out walking and click away when you spot something . |
| 23 | She would patrol the class , a wooden foot ruler at the ready in her hand , if she saw you holding the pen incorrectly , down came the ruler on your knuckles . |
| 24 | Detective Inspector Milsom had his notebook at the ready . |
| 25 | Sergeant Warden sat in the hard-backed chair , notebook at the ready . |
| 26 | On the other side of the double row of barbed wire a guard was standing still holding his rifle at the ready . |
| 27 | Jacques Devraux followed them , holding his rifle at the ready until he was certain the big animal was dead . |
| 28 | With the drinks set out and the food at the ready , I set off with Caroline , who had arrived from Denmark the night before . |
| 29 | They are more likely to go to your door with the money at the ready . |
| 30 | gon na dive bomb , bird shit at the ready No I wo n't . |