Example sentences of "[pron] ready for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor was I ready for the inconsistent treatment of the subject . |
| 2 | Leaving his wife to clear up all the dishes , Mr Jones went to get himself ready for a good game of cards with his friends from work . |
| 3 | As part of its drive to improve its efficiency and make itself ready for the private sector should the Government decide to privatise it following the review of the nuclear industry next year , Scottish Nuclear recently appointed Charterhouse , the merchant bank , as its adviser . |
| 4 | Okay are you ready for the big ? |
| 5 | ‘ Is she ready for a public performance ? ’ |
| 6 | Concentrate instead on getting everything ready for the big day . |
| 7 | Exhausting because there is never enough time it seems between being invited " to pitch " for the new business and actually getting everything ready for the big day . |
| 8 | That 's what I says to her , like on Friday when you come in by the time we 've got yo got you summat to eat and a bath and your petrol and everything ready for the next week filled your car up , that we could call in then but like if we have Saturday night you can either go to bed , sleep on floor or do virtually what you want cos you do n't have to go on Sunday if you do n't want . |
| 9 | Taking a leaf out of her newest role model Joan Collins ’ book , Kylie never again emerged through a customs hall before spending as long as was needed to make herself ready for the waiting world . |
| 10 | We had to organise it so that we could move it on a Saturday night from Manchester to Oxford and get it ready for a full orchestra , circus , and technical rehearsal on Tuesday afternoon . |
| 11 | Guido reckons he 'll have it ready for the qualifying trials . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll have it ready for the next bout . |
| 13 | Many times after cooking and cleaning there , she would have to bring suitcases of washing back to our house in Taibach to get it ready for the next visit . |
| 14 | A couple of hours of hard graft should see it ready for the next stage of its facelift , and might also tire her out enough to get some sleep . |
| 15 | 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 ) |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | Probing with his narrow hands he located the organs he sought , and , using another slender knife , dislodged and withdrew them , handing them to his assistant , who placed them in bronze trays and took them to another table where he covered them with natron salt , to dry and preserve them ready for the four jars which would stand in a chest at the head of the coffin . |
| 18 | But even when it does occur it does not provide too much of a problem , for the sea slugs are capable of quickly regenerating them ready for the next naïve fish to attack . |