Example sentences of "was ready " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or a brand name may already exist ready for exploitation by a market-maker ; Impressionism , for example , was ready to hand for British dealers to invent a new category of art which they could stretch to calling British Impressionism . |
| 2 | Menzies asked a grey-haired man who stood bundled up in his plaid , tall and erect as though he was ready to take root . |
| 3 | And then , because her first effort had been wrong , it was hard to know , now , if or when she was ready . |
| 4 | He would read it , nod and announce that he was ready to make a concession . |
| 5 | By the time he arrived at Amanda 's he was ready to drop . |
| 6 | The Chesterfield , onto which he was ready to drop , was no longer at its usual , comfortable angle to the television . |
| 7 | Roger , who was always in charge of the music , bad decided the party was ready for nostalgia — the 60s by the sound of it — someone , Maggie could n't remember who , was singing a song called ‘ Hats off to Larry ’ . |
| 8 | Like a big tabby cat she was ready to pounce |
| 9 | His Gemini was ready , outboard fuelled , and Graham and I bundled our bags on board . |
| 10 | This was , Pound believed ( and with good reason ) , the method of a great biologist , Louis Agassiz ; and when pressed Pound was ready to call the procedure not just ‘ empirical ’ but ‘ scientific ’ . |
| 11 | When a run did develop on the bank after Tiananmen , the Hong Kong government was ready to deal with it . |
| 12 | This year , shocked by the 3-4 June massacre , Mr Lo decided that Hong Kong was ready for a quicker pace of democracy . |
| 13 | He also said that the Soviet Union was ready to supply any sophisticated weapons that the Afghan regime wanted . |
| 14 | Zaire 's President , Mobutu Sese Seko , said a ceasefire accord between the Angolan government and Mr Savimbi was ready to be signed . |
| 15 | AFTER a weekend of hard talking between Michael Knighton and Martin Edwards , the Manchester United chairman , the 37-year-old property developer 's advisers were publicly sticking to the line last night that his £20m take-over bid for the club was ready to proceed . |
| 16 | In London , a spokesman for Knighton said the offer document for the take-over was ready to be sent to shareholders on Wednesday . |
| 17 | Another £7,000 followed and Wesker was ready to mount the readings . |
| 18 | ‘ Everything was ready , ’ she said . |
| 19 | The Unita leader indicated that he was ready to do so , and suggested a meeting in Libreville within the next month . |
| 20 | I waited until the tea was ready then joined them for a warming meal of steak and kidney pudding , followed by a very hot mug of tea into which was placed a measure of Navy rum . |
| 21 | The USA quickly dropped these clauses to meet the British objections , and the final act was ready for signature on 11 February . |
| 22 | She clenched her fists , spread eagled her arms and legs and called , exultantly , to St Margaret that she was ready . |
| 23 | Maggie was ready to give him the glory , to return to him and stay with him forever . |
| 24 | She had heard dark mutterings about him but after a few minutes of talking with him she was ready to put it down to common envy . |
| 25 | At last everything was ready . |
| 26 | BRM 's F1 return had to wait until the new two-litre P25 was ready for its first full season in 1956 . |
| 27 | By 10 minutes to 12 everything was ready for the bazaar , so Amanda set out for home , tingling with a mixture of excitement and fear . |
| 28 | Jack was ready to bet all the crisp honeymoon pound notes he had in his pocket that Charlie would be one of the few quests not wearing a hired morning coat . |
| 29 | Jack put another bit of cotton wool on the nick on his chin and he wondered if Marilyn was ready yet . |
| 30 | There were no problems on the move , and the Forward Observation Officer reported that the fireplan was ready . |