Example sentences of "ready [to-vb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nutty rode into the warehouse to see if it was ready , and Hoomey followed her , towing Bones , who was ready to go wherever the food sacks were going . |
| 2 | When a story is ready to go out the executive will be able to pick out those categories which are relevant to the material and then go through these sections to handpick those journalists who will really be able to use material . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Then she applied more make-up , and lifted her chin , ready to carry on the act of being happy . |
| 5 | And , along with their male counterparts , they were ready to carry out the purpose of the meeting which , in the words of Douglas Kinnaird of PA Consulting , brought in as one of the UK 's top headhunters to chair it , was ‘ not to provide answers but raise comments , views — even whether or not it is a concern ? — and pick out perhaps one or two opportunities . ’ |
| 6 | PREMIER John Major flew home from his Spanish holiday yesterday — ready to kill off the last lingering hopes of early economic recovery . |
| 7 | For the average funeral the pall-bearer was expected to perform his duties en route as well as within the church ; whereas at the funerals of the great , the pall-bearers were only called into service once the coffin was at the church and ready to proceed up the nave . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | feeling as it were ready to come up the way you were swallowing it you could feel it . |
| 10 | There by the window was the portable gramophone all ready to blare out the Hörst Wessel the very next morning . |
| 11 | I am dubious about their confidence that British industry is already experienced in a wide range of PWR work , and has technical and manufacturing competence at the levels ready to receive successfully the transfer of information specific to PWR components . |
| 12 | Alice had picked up a spoon ready to ladle out the stew on to a plate , but she paused and looked at her daughter hard as she said , ‘ You do n't know what it 's all about , do you ? |
| 13 | She could only be ready to pick up the pieces if and when required . |
| 14 | ‘ It is only with a ceasefire that it will be possible to save the traumatised population of Angola , and the United Nations are ready to help once the hostilities cease , ’ said Joao Lins de Albuquerque , spokesman for the UN representative , Margaret Anstee . |
| 15 | Once the parties have agreed terms and the first drafts of the scheme documents are prepared , the parties will be ready to announce publicly the proposed takeover . |
| 16 | Los Angeles trucker and sometime pugilist Philo Beddoe is ready to give up the fight game — until gambling mobster James Beekman ( Harry Guardino ) , who is looking for a match for his champion Jack Wilson , persuades him to change his mind . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't see how anybody can pick up a guitar nowadays and not give some credit to Jimi Hendrix because , at the time — people do n't remember this — but at the time he came out , people were ready to give up the guitar and go onto other instruments . |
| 18 | Baglin quickly established a 3–0 lead in the deciding set , but his opponent was not yet ready to give up the fight , lifting himself to take the next two games . |
| 19 | At another Nottinghamshire colliery , Cotgrave , gravel was being dumped on the site ready to fill in the pit despite the court ruling . |
| 20 | Assassination only works — I do n't really have to explain ? — when the victim 's people were sick of him anyway and ready to let in the new man without overmuch fuss . |
| 21 | The solar challenge is the race to the future … fifty machines looking more like spaceships than cars are on the grid in darwin … ready to roll for 2000 miles … ready to soak up the sun … |
| 22 | Without losing any time , she leaned forward ready to start up the rocket motors . |
| 23 | One leading umpire told me : ‘ At last it seems the Board are ready to back up the umpires in this matter . ’ |
| 24 | Drew Porter , head of the Ulster Bank 's Personal Investment Unit in Belfast , said although the two share issues were likely to be very close together , investors may be able to ‘ make a killing ’ on NIE and still be ready to snap up the BT3 opportunity . |
| 25 | The first young lady ready to pay off the mortgages on his land can be Lady Lark tomorrow . |
| 26 | ‘ We need to learn how to break through this ‘ barrier of inhibition ’ before we are ready to face fully the challenge of AIDS . ’ |
| 27 | The abrupt cessation of his trading can not but have caused more or less severe dislocation until others were ready to take up the slack , just as Bath became ‘ somewhat decayed ’ after the deaths of three of its clothiers . |
| 28 | Professional restorers , art historians and journalists equipped with variable degrees of real technical expertise are currently all equally ready to take up the cudgels in causes of this kind . |
| 29 | We received a message by telephone that this was fine and that we were to get in touch when we were ready to take up the offer . |
| 30 | Although slightly wounded , says that she is ready to take up the challenge again next year . |