Example sentences of "[verb] themselves ready " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he has told former executives to extract themselves from jobs they managed to find in the Aquino era and hold themselves ready . |
| 2 | Two UDF leaders , who were also present , Pierre Méhaignerie , president of the Centre of Social Democrats ( Centre des démocrates sociaux — CDS ) and François Léotard , president of the Republican Party ( Parti républicain — PR ) , the largest group within the UDF , declared themselves ready to " break the structures " of their respective formations . |
| 3 | The lights out there were flickering again , probably getting themselves ready for their second failure of the night . |
| 4 | so much for the Italian job Gloucester are back home training this week and getting themselves ready for the first league match of the season … that 's against wasps at Kingsholm on saturday ( 1 ) |
| 5 | To give themselves ready cash , some American airlines want to keep a 10% ticket tax for up to a year before handing it over to the government . |
| 6 | The various relations did n't have time to help the bride because they had to get themselves ready , and when Ellie knocked on Terry 's door to offer her own help she found the bride-to-be face down on the bed in floods of tears . |
| 7 | Staff are concerned about how they should get themselves ready for change . |
| 8 | They made themselves ready . |
| 9 | The troops made themselves ready . |
| 10 | And when ye would set out for Castille , let all the people know in secret , that they make themselves ready , and take with them all that they have , so that none of the Moors in the suburb may know thereof ; for certes ye can not keep the city , neither abide therein after my death . |
| 11 | The 7,000 representatives together with the party 's professionals and the MPs and Ministers of the Crown make themselves ready and , in some cases , available , for a night of pleasure . |
| 12 | Now the only Central South side left in the cup are Gloucester … this saturday they face Orrell in the quarter finals of the Pilkington … at the weekend the Cherry and Whites got themselves ready for the big game by beating Bristol … the score at the Memorial Ground was Bristol seven Gloucester nineteen |
| 13 | Salvadorean women , indignant at such servility and such silence on the part of those with whom we have entrusted the destiny of our Fatherland , demand that all our men declare themselves ready to defend our sovereignty , showing the world that Salvadoreans indeed have dignity . |