Example sentences of "get ready [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | action round-up now … and pride of place this week goes to Oxford 's Eddie Jordan … his grand prix team are getting ready for a new formula one season … today at Silverstone the new car was unveiled |
| 2 | When he was told of a young man who wished to become a poet , Eliot replied , " He 's getting ready for a sad life " , and Ronald Duncan said that during this period he looked " miserable and unwell " and " began to affect many signs of premature old age " . |
| 3 | As debts mount in his fast-growing Fininvest media group , Italy 's Silvio Berlusconi is getting ready for a big stockmarket flotation of the group 's publishing businesses , to raise capital . |
| 4 | Estonia gets ready for a three-letter miracle : Rupert Cornwell traces the Baltic republic 's rapid move to remarkable degree of economic and political autonomy |
| 5 | pol polish up on the mirrors and get ready for a mock test |
| 6 | We got back to camp around 4pm unloaded the van , cleaned all our blackened pots , put away our food , unpacked our gear , had hot showers , washed our hair and got ready for a big lobster dinner with fresh corn and a huge green salad and gobs of ice cream or frozen yoghurt . |