Example sentences of "getting ready " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1.04pm — Tony , and his Mum , are still getting ready to arrive . |
| 2 | While we were all getting ready for work one morning , a few days after the above conversation , one of the other girls ( Martha ) transferred a fifty-pound note from her handbag to the pocket of her apron , which was at that point still hanging by the door with everyone else 's . |
| 3 | In terms of preparation for the New Year Test series in the West Indies it is a bit like getting ready for an army assault course by taking the dog for a walk around the block . |
| 4 | NOW that England and Scotland are getting ready for the World Cup finals , the question on the lips of two rejoicing nations is : ‘ What will the lads wear for the big date in Italy ? ’ |
| 5 | It concerns the famous sequence in the flooded trench when the soldiers are getting ready to spend the night . |
| 6 | ‘ just as he was getting ready to go out on the town . |
| 7 | Lee , 32 , from Waltham Abbey , Essex , was getting ready to pack up after a biteless morning when his self-cocking float carrying a half mackerel slid away . |
| 8 | Someone blows a whistle , and this train starts rumbling , like it 's getting ready to drive off . |
| 9 | A GROUP of white , English-speaking mercenaries is apparently getting ready to overthrow the Suriname government , the country 's former deputy premier , Mr Andre Haakmat , said yesterday . |
| 10 | He said that David was getting ready to tour America , but he did n't want normal rock and roll people — he wanted weird , crazy people to be his staff and he asked whether we 'd do it . |
| 11 | Within another month or two he did The Rainbow which got enormous coverage , and within another month he was here getting ready for the first American tour . |
| 12 | Western governments are getting ready to evacuate the 500 foreigners , most of them Italian , who live in Somalia . |
| 13 | ‘ My morning thing is not really about getting ready for the day , but getting rid of the night . |
| 14 | Sit with a right-wing , black-bashing , neo-fascist in a little pub in that great , arid and beautiful semi-desert , the Karoo , a kind of South African outback , and you will be told loudly and often that the blacks are getting ready to rise . |
| 15 | When I awoke and started getting ready for my classes , which now passed mechanically , as if in a vacuum , the students suspended in time and space , and my own voice seeming to come from somewhere a long , long way away , I would write a poem for you as a kind of incantation to bring you back that day : |
| 16 | It 's a bit late , but Britain 's getting ready to defend herself at last — in case . ’ |
| 17 | Then I remembered they would be getting ready for the Roman banquet later on in the evening . |
| 18 | It 's not so political and personal for him — or maybe he 's getting ready to snap … ’ |
| 19 | Now he was pacing round his office like a stalking beast getting ready to pounce and tear . |
| 20 | When I 'm getting ready for a party — you know , you have a bath some time in the early afternoon or evening , you work out what to wear , you lay the things out on the bed that you vaguely know you look nice in , you roughly know what make-up suits you … well , that 's the point when I start thinking about my leg , and whether it will show . |
| 21 | Getting ready for a party at five years old was brilliant fun . |
| 22 | The door was eventually opened by a scowling man , cigarette hanging from the corner of his mouth , towel around his waist , shaving soap on his face and a razor in his hand , getting ready for his night shift . |
| 23 | In the villages of Grindelwald and Kleine Scheidegg , tourists were breakfasting and getting ready to rush out and stare through telescope or binoculars at the sinister face . |
| 24 | All the same , I must tell you that my heart sank when I thought of you getting ready to serve a life sentence of accounting in that ghastly tower block at London Bridge station . |
| 25 | Stoute said Alnasr Alwasheek does not take a lot of getting ready for a race . |
| 26 | They chatted for a while longer , then Mrs Lennox and Susan set about packing , getting ready for the next day 's evacuation . |
| 27 | While Robyn is getting up , and getting ready for the day , thinking mostly about the nineteenth-century industrial novels on which she has to lecture this morning , I will tell you about Charles , and other salient facts of her biography . |
| 28 | I imagined he was filling a plastic screw-top , getting ready for ‘ work ’ . |
| 29 | Occasionally , he broke off to bound up to Ruth Bassett 's bedroom where she was getting ready . |
| 30 | Bradshaw was getting ready to go out again when he caught sight of what he later called ‘ indisputably the largest wave anybody has ever had to deal with ’ . |