Example sentences of "ready [verb] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Then she applied more make-up , and lifted her chin , ready to carry on the act of being happy .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 The councils say they 're ready to take on the job .
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