Example sentences of "[adv] ready " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a temperament and technique reminiscent of Larry Gomes , who was such a valuable member of the West Indies middle-order in the early 1980s , Adams showed he was indisputably ready for his promotion to the highest level with three centuries in five Red Stripe Cup matches and a Jamaica record of 586 runs in the tournament ( average 97.66 ) . |
| 2 | Anyway , I 'm all ready . |
| 3 | My bag is already packed and I 'm all ready . |
| 4 | ‘ Is he all ready ? ’ the pilot said to Harvey , as if pike could n't be trusted to speak for himself . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm all ready . ’ |
| 6 | Words ca n't describe what it 's like to be all ready for your operation and then be told it 's off again for the third time.It 's beyond a joke . |
| 7 | I 'm all ready just to do a few more look Ann . |
| 8 | I 'm all ready if I got my handbag , but when I start walking because of the cars being broken into I do n't carry a handbag , you see , I just carry money in my pocket . |
| 9 | This is important when the fish are in the swim and perhaps ready to bite as soon as they see the bait sinking through the water . |
| 10 | With Labour in opposition , and perhaps ready to dismantle ITV when back in office , the issue featured prominently during the passage of the Television Act in 1954 . |
| 11 | Far from arriving at Exeter College , Oxford , in April 1944 as a grateful Jude the Obscure , he roared into the University apparently ready for anybody . |
| 12 | Today the biggest threat stems from the prestige attaching to rhinoceros horn dagger handles among the men of North Yemen , who are apparently ready to pay several hundred pounds for an ornate dagger with a handle of this material . |
| 13 | Rushdie was apparently ready to apologize , but it did n't look as if that would convince the Ayatollah to withdraw the fatwa and Rushdie was in hiding somewhere in England . |
| 14 | Much foreign press comment , most of which was highly sceptical both of the referendum results and of the motives behind it , focussed on the issue of Western Sahara , suggesting that the inclusion of the territory 's people in the voting , and their apparently ready participation , could be shown as a further proof of their supposed attachment to Morocco . |
| 15 | Not content with that the bird then circled another new born lamb at the Chinnor smallholding apparently ready to pounce . |
| 16 | Fred owns a garage and has tried to get everything together ready for the business accounts to be drawn up . |
| 17 | Well I know I put them both there together ready for this morning . |
| 18 | The manuscript , however , was not entirely ready for publication , " and during the next few weeks Nietzsche submitted it to a final revision . |
| 19 | Soon she would not have the troops with which to maintain her responsible policy of granting independence only when a colony was politically , economically , and militarily ready to stand on its own feet . |
| 20 | by time I 'd of got to Stainforth , it 'd been nine o'clock ready for |
| 21 | With steelmaking they work in er two hundred and fifty tonnes roughly at a time , pour it in the basic oxygen steelmaking furnace , blow oxygen into the steel which takes about twenty minutes , then the steel with one or two other processes is basically ready to be used . |
| 22 | We were not merely ready to welcome strange things when we had walked half a mile up a lane and met no man , but we were in a gracious condition for receiving whatever might fall to us . |
| 23 | It is important to democracy that government should be not merely ready , but obliged , to listen to what the people ( in all its multiplicity ) has to say . |
| 24 | The official report states : ‘ To have forced his way into Benghazi when the enemy was obviously ready for him would have achieved nothing and would have involved the loss of his force . ’ |
| 25 | Admiral d'Argenlieu , who regarded the Ho-Sainteny agreement as the equivalent of Munich , was temperamentally opposed to negotiation and was obviously ready if not anxious to put differences with the Vietminh to the test of battle . |
| 26 | He had already cleared his desk and was obviously ready to leave . |
| 27 | Like oriental flowers on fragile weaving stalks , the Rokkaku flock is impatiently ready for the next signal . |
| 28 | He looks less ready than anyone I 've ever seen . ’ |
| 29 | Victoria seemed to be growing shyer than ever , now less prone to tears but also less ready to smile . |
| 30 | But JPL is still associated with Caltech , and acceptance of classified research at US universities is much less ready now than it used to be . |