Example sentences of "ready [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Joe had gauged that the ‘ he ’ she referred to was the uncle and the reference to Pitman 's shorthand brought his eyes to Mick and his face ready to go into a grin ; but something in Mick 's expression checked it and he listened to him saying , ‘ She 's a bright lass , is Carrie . ’
2 Side view of open-coil springs , assembled and ready to go into a mattress
3 ‘ We take ex-psychiatric patients who are n't yet ready to go into the community .
4 ( 4 ) the coach was then ready to go into the paint shop rubbing and completion of painting .
5 Well , when it was thought I was ready to go to a job , I was sent to 101 Cadogan Gardens in Chelsea , near Sloane Street to be told to go down the steps to the tradesmen 's entrance .
6 " Two weeks later I was ready to go to a place I did n't know , and where I knew no one .
7 Every week a readiness roster or ‘ go-team ’ is drawn up with the names of three or four Operations Inspectors and three or four Engineering Inspectors who are ready to go to an accident site at a moment 's notice .
8 As he got ready to go to the station , his aunt was busily arranging a children 's tea party in the church hall .
9 They wanted to be ready to go to the South Pole at the beginning of the next Antarctic summer .
10 Everyone on the Fram was ready to go to the North Pole , to the Arctic .
11 Oh I 'll get ready to go to the club .
12 A group of soldiers were already there , collecting their rifles ready to go to the rifle range .
13 Then I had to get ready to go to the bank .
14 The second time was when she was ready to go to the wash-house .
15 Certainly , as Philip Norton has shown , since 1970 MPs have been increasingly ready to go against the party line .
16 Early copies are now ready to go out the door , although unlimited shipments must wait until November .
17 Th the the eight the processed one are twelve weeks ready to go out the door .
18 one piece unsinkable , all ready to go in the water .
19 worried about that , right is that ready to go in the pan , if somebody would like to put that in the pan
20 Dennis eventually went off with her on his own , leaving Nicholson to return alone to their hotel where he acted out some kind of ritual guarding of their rooms , ready to forewarn of an attack he was expecting at any moment from some non-existent Red Indians .
21 Martha felt ready to weep at the unfairness of it .
22 Foreign companies immediately became less ready to invest in the country .
23 Bowe , who challenges undisputed champion Evander Holyfield 's here tonight , is ready to renege on an agreement to meet Lewis next if he wins the world crown .
24 The tenancy was not from year to year but for a term which would continue until Matlodge certified that it was ready to proceed with the development of the property .
25 The court has two objects in mind : first to give the tenant security for as long as the holding is not required for development ; secondly to ensure that when the landlord is ready to proceed with the development , the development is not held up by rights possessed by the tenant ( National Car Parks v Paternoster Consortium [ 1990 ] 1 EGLR 99 ) .
26 When we got home I could see that they were ready to agree to the move .
27 Was he ready to retire from the fray — the rather delicious and exhilarating fray — just yet ?
28 One of the Moths now at Mandevelle has been on static display in a motor museum for years , and is now almost ready to leap into the air again ; an excellent idea .
29 Like this , rimmit , rimmit , rimmit , go on have a go at doing with me , rimmit , rimmit , come on , rimmit , rimmit , oh my god and then you 've got to leap into the pool , are you ready to leap in the pool like this , you 've got to rimmit , can you do that ?
30 Several of the greyhounds sold at CLEVELAND PARK 'S recent sale have now completed initial trials and are now ready to appear on the racecard .
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