Example sentences of "ready [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | this method was essential as the vast majority of targets had Commonwealth forces bounded on each side , ready to pounce on the bandits as they attempted to flee from the air attacks . |
| 2 | Ready to pounce on the leaders are Ireland 's Ronan Rafferty and Stephen McAllister of Scotland , who finished on 140 after a pair of 70s . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Claudia was at last putting her unhappiness to one side and was ready to concentrate on the all-important show . |
| 5 | 11.30am Liz goes to the main refectory ready to serve on the counter . |
| 6 | We have always said that the proper way to do it is to have the service areas there and ready to open on the day the motorway itself is opened to traffic . |
| 7 | Always ready to look on the bright side she expected that the remission would last for a long time , and there was a conspiracy between Maureen and her mother to conceal Julia 's suffering from her . |
| 8 | Turman , having finished producing the entertaining but flimsy The Flim Flam Man , was now ready to embark on The Graduate with Nichols as director , and Calder Willingham writing the screenplay . |
| 9 | Hot ready to put on the table . |
| 10 | A team of high intensive cleaners was ready to descend on the school today for a mammoth weekend operation before Mr Thacker hopes to re-open the school on Monday . |
| 11 | A stream of trade complaints is ready to burst on the administration the day the round ends . |
| 12 | And then , sickeningly , the helicopter soared , the chapel lurched out of sight and they were poised , engines rattling , ready to land on the wide terrace behind the house . |
| 13 | Asda 's box of 24 chocolate cakes will have something for everyone , and all the stores offer a selection of cheeseboards and cheese biscuits which are ready to lay on the table as soon as the packaging has been removed . |
| 14 | They were ready to move on the appointed day and , at the end of the summer , they would begin the trek back to the village on their own , as soon as they smelt the smoke of the bonfires in which the thatch and the bedding from the shielings were destroyed , for reasons which today we might classify as ‘ environmental health ’ , but which , to the young folk of the shieling , was almost a ritual . |
| 15 | But it is also plain that despite sterling 's depreciation to a rate at which it might be reasonably competitive within the Exchange Rate Mechanism , Mrs Thatcher 's team are no more ready to sign on the dotted line than they were in Madrid this summer . |
| 16 | LOPL ready to step on the gas at Kadanwari |