Example sentences of "ready [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | João had been out with Fernando for most of the previous night and looked pale and tired , but Maria Iñes said this was all to the good , because it made him look older and readier to take on the responsibility of a wife . |
| 2 | I buy a harmonium — nearly an organ — and spend the rest of my life playing it , thickened with doleful dirges , vainly trying to lay the trauma , my only satisfaction the ashen faced , staring eyed audiences staggering out at the end of performances , primed , and ready to carry on the good work . |
| 3 | Then she applied more make-up , and lifted her chin , ready to carry on the act of being happy . |
| 4 | Then she rang Mrs Chalk , who agreed to curtail her afternoon off to dash back to Armscott , ready to pass on the news if Charles called home first . |
| 5 | Dragging himself through the daily routine which gets him into his beige-toned synthetic fibres and out of his neo-neo house , he roars off in his Jag ( number plate , VIC 100 ) , fag in mouth , Carly Simon on cassette , ready to take on the world . |
| 6 | Perfectly groomed from head to toe and with all that assurance , she was ready to take on the world , Arlene thought with satisfaction , for she looked on Paula as her very own creation . |
| 7 | When grandfather died the farmer had allowed my grandmother and her two sons , still in their teens , to stay on in the cottage because he did n't need a new grieve ; he had an unmarried son in the big farmhouse , ready to take on the job . |
| 8 | Now I was ready to take on the guards and he was calming me , rather than me him . |
| 9 | She felt refreshed and renewed , filled with such a healthy glow of well-being that she was ready to take on the world ; and Johnny Latimer with it . |
| 10 | The councils say they 're ready to take on the job . |